Coyle looking forward to facing the best

26 May 2009 07:20
Newly-promoted Burnley will carry the fight to Manchester United next season despite knowing the town's entire population could fit into Old Trafford with a few seats to spare. Wade Elliott's excellent 13th-minute effort was enough to take the Clarets back into the top flight after a 33-year absence. It further enhanced the reputation of manager Owen Coyle on the day Gordon Strachan left the Celtic hotseat vacant and ensured a £60million windfall will be winging its way to Turf Moor. "The Premier League is full of the best players in the world, and some of the top managers in Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger and so forth," he said. "We had 36,000 supporters at Wembley, which is about half our population. "That means when Manchester United play at home there are more people at Old Trafford than there are in the whole town of Burnley."

Source: Eurosport