True or not though, the loud boos that filled the ground during the Wolves game must have affected, even shocked Barry Kilby, as much as any player or manager who heard them, whether they were justified or not. Reasonable people felt sorry for Brian Laws, but it was one of those instances where there seemed to be no inbetween opinions. In the Claret corner were those who felt he was simply carrying the can for events that were not of his making and that the crecendo of boos was damned unfair, and in the blue corner were those who felt he was simply out of his depth, his card marked by his poor record and sacking at Sheffield Wednesday, and singly responsible for all the defeats at Burnley since his arrival. At the time it was described by many as an underwhelming appointment although much was made of his record at Wednesday of managing on a shoestring. Few, if any people, at that stage were questioning the two people who had appointed him, Barry Kilby and Brendan Flood.

     Yet, it was hard not to feel downright sorry for him in several of the games since he took over. The Fletcher headed miss against Portsmouth would have changed that game. Jeff Winter in his website blog noted the penalty that should have been awarded in the Wolves game. There were the linesman’s decisions in the Fulham away game that gave them a 2 – 0 lead. The two injuries in the early minutes of the Bolton game wrecked any gameplan. Another bad Fletcher miss in the away game at Man Utd would have given the Clarets a 1 - 0 lead had he scored. Individual defending errors both in the Portsmouth and Wolves games gave those games away. A deflection off Carlisle in the Wolves game was cruel. The Thompson miss in the Arsenal game would have made it 2 – 2. Wasn’t there a game where a goal disallowed for offside should in fact have stood? The list might well be longer and all of them events beyond any manager’s control.

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