Wieffer Does It. Twice. Burnley. Broken.

Mats Wieffer. Remember him? Technically still a Brighton player, apparently. Quietly going about his business in midfield while others took the plaudits. Then he rocked up to Turf Moor on Saturday afternoon and bagged a brace. Left foot. Right foot. Job done.

Burnley 0-2 Brighton. Their 20th Premier League defeat of the season.

The first goal was pure class. Pascal Gross doing what Gross does, threading it low across the box, and Wieffer arriving like he'd been doing this all his life. 43 minutes. One nil. The second came when Burnley's defence failed to clear, Wieffer pounced, and that was that. 89 minutes. Game, set, match, season.

It wasn't a performance that'll get anyone's pulse racing. Welbeck fluffed a sitter inside the six-yard box. Minteh was electric but couldn't quite deliver the finish his crossing deserved. We spent chunks of the first half over-elaborating when we should've just shot.

VAR was with us on Saturday. Jaidon Anthony had the ball in the net, Ugochukwu had another shout, and at moments this could realistically have been 2-2. That has to be acknowledged. Because Burnley played with genuine gumption and spirit. They pressed, they surged, they caused problems. They deserved better than their league position suggests, just not better than the result they got.

Twelve points from safety with six games left. One win in their last 23. There is no miracle coming. It's sad, in the way that watching a side scrap hard and still lose always is. But here we are.

Meanwhile, we're up to 46 points, one behind Brentford in seventh. Europe is not a dream. It's on the fixture list. But, we really want it? The better Europe for this squad is a long weekend in Ibiza. Cheaper, less humiliating, and nobody gets battered 4-0 by Roma.

Talking of Roberto De Zerbi, you have to give it to the man. He has got more back bone than the Labour party put together, but I don't think that's enough, but money talks. It's his first game in charge of Spurs, away at Sunderland. And the whole country will have eyes on that result.

Final Thought: Burnley are down. De Zerbi is at Sunderland trying to save Spurs. And Wieffer has woken up today with a hangover no doubt. Football is completely deranged, and so is Roberto, but someone has to pay for the man's ego!