PAUL CLEMENT insisted he made the right decision in selling Jack Cork to the Clarets for £10M in the summer.
But with Swansea’s American owner Steve Kaplan looking on at Turf Moor the under-pressure manager will surely have changed his mind.
For the midfielder who made his debut for England in the last four minutes in the recent friendly against Germany ran the show.
And he also put Sean Dyche’s men ahead.
The Clarets were going for a third successive win in the top flight for the first time since December 1975 – and that went at it hammer and tongs.
Almost from the first minute the Swansea defence looked devoid of cohesion and Dyche’s men sensed it. Luckily for the Swans Lukasz Fabianski was the odd one out amongst a rearguard that played like rabbits in headlights.
Had he not been on his toes he would have picked the ball out of the net three times in the opening 20 minutes. And during that sequence he produced a sensational stop to deny a point – blank header from Ashley Barnes.
Yet even he could do nothing about another black hole in front of him from which Cork got his opener.
Cork himself fed Barnes who laid off for Brady and with the Swans defence again all over the place the 28 year old was able to pick his spot with the header that gave him his second Prem goal for Burnley.
The Clarets were well on their way to that record by the 40th minute as Barnes smashed home his side’s second.
Clement, having saved the Swans from going under was meanwhile looking at a far different record.
A fourth successive league defeat would equal the club’s worst – ever run in the top flight and by the end Welsh voices could be heard chanting: “We want Clements out!”
From The Sun
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