With 72 days to go until the World Cup, Gareth Southgate can add another name to the roll-call of Burnley players vying for a seat on the plane to Russia. Before Chris Wood sealed an unwanted club-record eighth successive Premier League defeat for West Bromwich Albion, his strike-partner, Ashley Barnes, scored a spectacular acrobatic overhead-kick – his fourth goal in as many games – to keep the Somerset-born striker, capped by Austria at Under-20 level but eligible for England, dreaming for club and country.
At this rate, Burnley are on course for a seventh-place finish and securing an unlikely spot in the Europa League, should one of Chelsea, Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur lift the FA Cup. “We’re all going on a European tour,” echoed deliriously from the away end as a sparse Hawthorns emptied before the final whistle. This latest damning defeat condemned them to a ninth straight defeat in all competitions for the first time since 1996.
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