BURNING DESIRE; Clarets have the bottle to win play-offs says Coyle.Byline: ROSS HEPPENSTALL BURNLEY manager Owen Coyle Owen Columba Coyle (born July 14, 1966 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish-born footballer who played international football for the Republic of Ireland, and a football manager. He is currently player-manager of St. Johnstone in the Scottish Football League First Division. believes the collective desire of his players could unlock the door to the Barclays Premier League ahead of today's crunch (1) To process data. See number crunching. (2) To compress data. See data compression. 1. (jargon) crunch - To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. clash with Reading. The Clarets host Steve Coppell's side in the first leg of their Coca-Cola Championship play-off semi-final having claimed their highest league position for 33 years. The Lancashire side finished fifth after a marathon campaign which has seen them play 58 games and dump Fulham, Chelsea and Arsenal out of the Carling car·ling n. One of the short timbers running fore and aft that connect the transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship. [Middle English, from Old French calingue and from Old Norse Cup along the way. Promotion has always been the priority for a club revived since Coyle left St Johnstone in November 2007 with ambition coursing through his veins. The highly-rated Glaswegian, whose work at Turf Moor Turf Moor is a football stadium located in Burnley, Lancashire, and is the home ground of English football club Burnley F.C. It is situated on Harry Potts Way in Burnley, and has a capacity of 22,546, all seated. has attracted admiring glances from several top-flight clubs, has made Burnley a force to be reckoned with despite limited resources. Coyle, 42, said: "Since I came to the club I've been very positive about everything we're doing. "A lot of people tipped us to be down at the bottom end of the Championship at the start of the season, although we knew we had the quality to get up to the top end. "But I don't get involved in any negativity, it's no good to me. "Even when we've had a disappointing result and taken a slap - and we've had a few this season - we've looked to bounce back quickly. "That's because we're positive and we know what we're trying to do. "We're nowhere near where we would like to be and we've had to bite the bullet a couple of times this season when money hasn't been available. "That's understandable in the current climate but we've not moaned about it, we've got on with it and I've asked this group of players to trust themselves and their team-mates. "They've done that and we've shown that we're a very good team." Coyle is expecting a tough test from Reading, a club he scored against at Wembley in the 1995 play-off final to help Bolton win promotion to the top flight. Coyle added: "Reading are a massive club just out of the Premier League and obviously have the pounds 12million parachute parachute, umbrellalike device designed to retard the descent of a falling body by creating drag as it passes through the air. The development of modern aircraft has led to many experiments in the aerodynamic problems of parachute design, with the result that the payment. "There have so many plusses going for them, added to the fact they've got a lot of quality players, but we're only concerned about what we do." CAPTION(S): PASSION: Owen Coyle has revived Burnley's fortunes |
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