When new owner Alan Pace explained his vision for Burnley he was asked about the club’s academy. Extremely impressed with the work club has already done, he outlined how he and the new board hoped to take it forward.
“Improve it’s intake and productivity,” he said.
He will have been delighted to see the youngsters who entered off the bench in Burnley’s FA Cup third round victory over MK Dons make a positive impact on the game.
For the first time in nine years, Mike Garlick was not watching Burnley play as the club’s chairman. Instead, the new man at the helm, Pace, was forced to watch on from home, isolating due to one of his household testing positive for coronavirus.
With a game against Manchester United on Tuesday to think about, there was an element of wanting to win the game but also conserving energy with a busy schedule upcoming for Sean Dyche. That meant turning to his youthful bench and during the second…
