BEFORE each match at Turf Moor this season, the same touching video has been played on the big screen.

It charts the club’s rise, from the depths of 1987 to the Premier League.

“It’s times like these you learn to live again,” were the Foo Fighters lyrics accompanying it.

The Clarets’ Premier League campaign may have ultimately ended in disappointment, but that should never overshadow the achievement of getting there in the first place.

This has been the completion of Burnley’s rebirth, and for that there should be pride.

In a sport increasingly dragged down by greed and cynicism, Burnley’s story has touched hearts across the country.

Even Sunday produced one of those moving moments.

As Steven Gerrard curled in a superb second goal, there was applause around Turf Moor – a gesture of sportsmanship that is almost unheard of these days, the final acknowledgement that this season sometimes the opposition have just been too good.

Many fans said before the season started that they were going to enjoy it, no matter what.

But that is easier said than done. After a season when Burnley won most weeks, it was always going to be hard to shake off the frustration when many games now brought defeats.

It would be easy to suggest that, on recent evidence, most of the current Burnley squad is not enough, that wholesale changes must be made in the summer with many out of contract.

But the same players were good enough 12 months ago, helping the Clarets to promotion.

They played no small part in this remarkable story. Ripping it up and starting again is a risk that does not need to be taken.