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Nottingham Forest fans mock Burnley; Scott Parker admits he deserved boos after 4-1 defeat

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Nottingham Forest fans mock Burnley; Scott Parker admits he deserved boos after 4-1 defeat

Nottingham Forest fans mock Burnley with a chant and Scott Parker admits he deserved boos from an angry away end after a 4-1 defeat.

Zian Flemming had put the Clarets ahead with his first half opener, but then they well and truly collapsed second half, when Morgan Gibbs-White scored a 15 minute hat-trick, then Igor Jesus added a fourth in injury time.

The result leaves second-to-bottom Burnley 12 points from safety with five games remaining and will be relegated if West Ham beat Crystal Palace on Monday and Burnley fail to win against Man City on Wednesday.

Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “For an hour we were veyr good, very disciplined. We got our noses in front and it carried on in to the second half. The game changes on their goal, in that moment we give up two or three sloppy goals and lost our way. The inconsistencies have been paramount at times and you can see that today.

“[After conceding the first] it’s not about tactics, it’s about digging through the next bit and trying to get a foothold again. We didn’t do that, in fact the opposite happened and we concede four. It is poor.

“The team have got scars and I understand that because it has been a long season. What you’ve seen today has been a replica of other games. You can see at times that is weighting heavy, particularly when we conceded. Senior players need to step up.

“I am never going to criticise our general work ethic and desire. Where we have fallen short is quality. We will keep going.

“It is a difficult period now, but it’s about individuals, who you want to be and how you want to see out these last games. How we end this season will be key.”

Scott Parker said on the angry away end, per Burnley Express: “Look, I understand totally their frustration.I totally get it.

“I’ve got no defence and, rightly so, I’m exactly the same [being angry].

“In terms of that, it’s a travelling support that for 30 minutes has seen a team just fall away. And you know, maybe they weren’t too impressed with the first half as well – because at certain moments, certainly before the goal, there was some booing and then we scored.

“But this is the team we’re going to have to be in certain moments. You open the game up in this division for a team like us, you can get hurt.

“I thought the first half we did everything that we needed to be. But going back to the support, listen, I’m a fan as well and I’ve been a fan and I understand the passion and the emotion.

“It’s been a disappointing season, for sure. At times, we’ve not given them much to cheer about and at times, of course, I’d have liked more in terms of the general getting behind us.

“But at the same time, I don’t expect that, really. That’s our job and that’s us as players and as a manager, to try and give the best version of ourselves and represent us at certain moments.

“Today, definitely for 30 minutes, we deserve to get booed and I deserve to get the abuse and that’s the way football is. So I deserve that walking over there, I deserve that.

“It’s not nice, of course, and it’s hurtful and it’s sad. But that’s the reality.”

Nottingham Forest manager Vitor Periera, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “The three points is the most important thing. Keeping in mind we played a tough game three days ago, our first half we found it difficult to find the spaces and movements.

“At half-time we had a talk about changing the dynamics and attacking different spaces. Demanding the spirit and character and fight. In the end, a very good second half. I am happy with it.”

On captain Morgan Gibbs-White: “He is leading by example. I know a lot of [captains] that speak and speak but it proves nothing. I didn’t feel he was his best level in the first half but he did fantastic in the second half.

“Even when we are in bad moments we feel the energy from supporters and we create spirit in the team to face problems. The second half was a big example that we are alive and ready to fight until the last game to reach our target.”

On Murillo, who came off injured: “I don’t know. He needs to do a scan. Talking with him, I don’t think it’s serious. We’ll see.”

Here’s the social media reaction after Nottingham Forest fans mock Burnley and Scott Parker admits he deserved boos after his side’s 4-1 defeat…

@NTMB992: Toothless. Abysmal. Embarrasing. Again. ALK don’t understand this club, most of the players don’t either. ALK out, Pace out, Parker out. #twitterclarets

@uptheclarets22: How many times this season has he declared his own teams performance unacceptable? It’s absolutely bonkers that he’s still in charge

@BFCGB1983: @AlanPaceBFC @JJWatt fancy doing anything about this? This is not how you run a club. When something is wrong you’re supposed to fix it.

@dbstone99: 33 years I’ve been supporting the clarets and I’ve never disliked a manager more than this fraud, sack him now and give us our club back. I don’t recognise it anymore.

@mandy166: Genuinely now time for Parker to go. This is the weakest Burnley side I’ve seen in years, no consistency or desire to make improvements and no passion from anyone, the players or the Board. We deserve better

@leahembley7: Alan pace. Time to go now 👋 take me back to the Dyche days

@BeeHoleEnder: We used to have a manager who had an expectation and a demand of his players and staff that served our club extremely well throughout his tenure. It was “the minimum requirement is maximum effort”. Please bring him back ASAP.

@lashworth1991: Alan Pace, get out of our club. You & your lack of football knowledge is killing this club.

@shatster: You are all a bunch of cloggers who would struggle in the Burnley & District Sunday League. Woeful, shocking, spineless, talentless, rudderless and numerous more damming adjectives to sum you up. You should all do the right thing and get out of my club and find somewhere else 🤬

@peegsy: I don’t even feel anything anymore when we concede a goal. I’ve never felt this in 40 years watching this team. Imagine it coming to this. This manager has sucked the life out of us.



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