On Mee Head Son

Skipper strikes and now Clarets look to Europa spot

- Neil McLeman

Ben Mee celebrated his 300th Burnley league appearance with the winning goal to show a week can be a long time in football.

Last Monday, Sean Dyche’s team were thrashed at Manchester City, amid speculation about the manager’s future, while a plane flew over the Etihad Stadium with an offensive banner.

The Clarets still had only seven players on the bench at Selhurst Park, including two keepers. But captain Mee’s second-half header made up for Burnley’s lack of strikers to lift his side above Palace, Sheffield United, and Arsenal into eighth place – level on points with Tottenham – after two wins in five days.

Burnley now faces the Bramall Lane club on Sunday with a potential Europa League spot at stake.