Burnley pile on the pain for Sheffield United to reignite survival chances
Chris Wilder has taken to describing this season as “painful” but it turned positively agonising as Burnley inflicted more deep wounds on his Championship-bound Sheffield United players.
No metaphorical sticking plaster is likely to be large enough to hide the psychological damage gleefully delivered by Vincent Kompany’s team as Burnley recovered from a shaky start to play with the new-found belief befitting a side that has now lost only one of its last seven league games.
