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Burnley Are Sleepwalking Towards Disaster - Leicester Showed Us How It Ends.

There are striking similarities between the Leicester team of last season and this current Burnley side, and when taking a deeper look at the numbers, they make for bleak reading.

14.11.26, 10:00 Updated 10.11.26, 11:32 7 Minute Read

The most frightening thing about Leicester’s relegation to League One is how difficult it has become to look at it without seeing ourselves in that position.

Not because the clubs are similar in stature or size. Not because a bad autumn makes another relegation inevitable. But because the same familiar arguments have been bandied about from minute one this season, much like they were during Leicester’s previous Championship campaign following relegation from the Premier League.

We’ve been reaching for the usual reassurances: ‘Too good to go down’, ‘plenty of quality in the squad’, ‘recent Premier League experience’ and ‘the resources that should separate us from the rest of the division’.

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