We see our future as a Premiership club

There was a time when we had a good laugh at another club sacking its manager, now it is more a concern should they decide to make a move on Steve, but there's not an awful lot we can do about it.

Chairman Barry Kilby turned down the Wednesday approach and said yesterday: “We refused Sheffield Wednesday permission to speak to Steve on Friday.

“When any managerial job becomes available at the moment we have come to expect that Steve, one of the brightest young managers in the division, will become a target.

“Steve is clearly an ambitious man who wants to manage in the Premiership and I believe he can do that. But as far as we are concerned, we see our future as a Premiership club. We are going for promotion this season and we can do without these distractions.”

That should be good news for Steve Cotterill, that the club are really targeting promotion to the Premiership, and he spoke about the situation after seeing us gain a point at Plymouth yesterday.

“I only found out about the approach when the Chairman told me,” he said. “It was quite nice of him to come down to the hotel this morning to tell me and again, it is probably a measure of how we are doing at Burnley Football Club. He simply told me he had turned down an approach and I listened to what he had to say.

“Probably now, after today's game, I have some thinking time to mull things over in my head and that is what anyone would do in any certain situation, but I didn't spit my dummy out after he turned down an approach and neither will I.

“I am not one to have my head in the clouds. I am a down to earth man and keep my feet on the ground. I am honest and hard working and that will never change.”

Burnley said they wouldn't be commenting any further on the situation, and as for Wednesday, their Chairman is going to have to go and look somewhere else for the manager he requires to play attacking football with two orthodox wingers.