LISTENING to Spurs fans on a radio phone-in on Saturday night, you could be forgiven for believing the world was about to end.

A succession of callers aired their views on the turmoil that Tottenham Hotspur found themselves in following Jacques Santini's sudden departure on Friday.

Naturally, like every supporter, the ground tremors caused by managerial upheaval register high on the Richter scale.

But if White Hart Lane is rocking ahead of their Carling Cup fourth round tie at Turf Moor, Steve Cotterill must feel like he is at the epicentre of his own earthquake!

An injury list longer than the San Andreas Fault has left Cotterill clinging to the hope that at least some of his walking wounded make it tonight.

So as he plans a pre-match roll call, perhaps the Clarets chief can be forgiven for scoffing at the Premiership club's own 'turmoil'.

"I thought about the turmoil they are supposed to be in when I looked at their team yesterday," said Cotterill.

"There was Robbie Keane, Freddie Kanoute, Jermain Defoe, Ledley King, Jamie Redknapp, Paul Robinson and Noureddine Naybet, among others - that's real turmoil!

"We have earned the right to play Spurs through beating another Premiership club, Aston Villa.

"But we could have just done with this game being in about a month's time and not now.

"It's come around a bit too quickly for us and we know it's going to be a tough game. But there you go, we've just got to deal with that."

Despite Burnley's late head count, Spurs will still arrive at Turf Moor worried about becoming another Premiership scalp.

Four successive league defeats, punctuated by the Carling Cup third round, extra-time victory at Bolton, has seen the Londoners slide down the table following a promising start.

And with Villa already sent packing from Turf Moor with their tails between their legs, new Spurs head coach Martin Jol will surely fear a baptism of fire in his first official game in charge.

Yet Cotterill insists his charges cannot afford to look back at the previous round for inspiration tonight.

He said: "Aston Villa was another night and we've got to deal with Tottenham as best we can.

"That one has gone and I don't think we can get any confidence off the back of beating Villa.

"I think we should take this game as something completely different because it is going to be a lot harder, not because of the opposition, but because of the situation we're in."

Thankfully, Burnley's talisman striker Robbie Blake is not one of those injury doubts tonight.

The talisman striker put in his best shift of the season in the 3-1 win over Aston Villa in the previous round, despite seeing a penalty superbly saved by Thomas Sorensen.

Blake is one of only four players, along with Graham Branch, Tony Grant and Ian Moore, surviving from the squad that earned a 2-1 win over Tottenham in this competition two years ago.

That night the Clarets skipper's deflected equaliser cancelled out Gus Poyet's opener and set the scene for Steve Davis to head a second half winner.

And Cotterill is hoping for another man-of-the-match performance from Blake, who has the ability to turn the game in Burnley's favour at any given moment

He said: "I look for Robbie to lead by example in every game he plays. I hope there's not an added incentive for him to play any better against a Premiership club than there should be in the bread and butter games in the Championship every weekend."