BALTIMORE, Maryland March 29, 2014 - The Turf Moor crowd witnessed enough carnage this afternoon to fill them with it for the season and then some. Vokes and Stanislaus hurt, added to already down Ings and Trippier and Marney. Officials not seeing handballs twice on the same play and in the box, no less. A former Burnley player scoring, to boot. Leicerster won, 2-0, putting them six points up with seven to play for the Claret, eight for the Foxes. Worse, the time it will take to get the quintet back on the pitch was on everyone's mind in the aftermath. One bit of good news is that the Claret do not play again until an April 5 journey to Vicarage Road for the Watford lads. And another bit of good news came from no place other than London, where Queens Park was hosting Blackpool. The Rangers had to struggle to gain a tie, and therefore picked up but one point on the Claret, leaving Burnley nine clear. Derby County did manage a win over struggling Charlton Athletic, moving them within one point of QPR and ten of Burnley.
Despite the injuries - Vokes went down eight minutes in - the Claret were within ten minutes of the half still tied at 0 with Leicester. Then former Burnley player David Nugent nicely beat Tom Heaton. It was the cloudy vision of Official Chris Foy that most provoked the Turf Moor faithful. On one play Jeff Schlupp and Matty James of Leicester both handled the ball in the box, yet no call was made by Foy. Chris Wood, who assisted on the first goal by the Foxes, scored himself at 75 minutes.
Burnley lost for the first time this season at home. The last home loss was one year ago. Burnley hadn't lost at all in 16 games. All good things do, sadly, come to an end.
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