BURNLEY might still be looking for a first Premier League win as we enter the first week of November, but they have a long way to go before they are matching the worst starts in the top flight.

The Clarets are the ninth team in the 23 years of the Premier League to fail to win any of their first nine league games.

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Encouragingly half of the previous eight managed to survive in the top flight, despite their horror starts.

Burnley aren’t even the slowest starters from East Lancashire in Premier League history. In the 1996/97 season Blackburn Rovers had to wait until their 12th league game of the season for their first win, a 3-0 Ewood Park success over Liverpool on November 3.

Rovers had taken only four points from their first 11 games, the same number Burnley have after nine, but still recovered to finish 13th in a 20-team league, taking 42 points and winning nine times.

In 1998/99 Southampton got their first win in their 10th game of the season and managed to stay up, although a year later Sheffield Wednesday also broke their duck in their 10th game, but were relegated at the end of the season with 31 points, 10 less than Southampton finished with a year before.

Seven teams have gone at least 11 games without a win at the start of the Premier League, and Burnley would have to fail to win at Arsenal and then at home to Hull City to make it to that number.

Two seasons ago Queens Park Rangers set the record for the worst start to a season, going 16 league games without a win until they beat Fulham 2-1 at Loftus Road on December 15.

That took the record from Swindon Town, who went the first 15 top flight games of the season without a win in 1993/94.

Both of those sides finished bottom of the league, but when Derby County went 13 games without a victory at the start of the 2000/2001 season, they recovered to take 42 points from the next 25 games and managed to stay up.

Four years later Norwich City had to wait until their 14th league game of the season before their first victory, and they finished one from bottom.

In 1994/95 Everton went 12 without a win and stayed up comfortably, while a year later Man City went 11 without a win and were only relegated on goal difference.

The Clarets also have a long way to go before they break their own club record, going 17 games without a victory at the start of the 1889/90 season.

In 1979/80 they went 16 without a win, and in 70/71 it was 15 under the stewardship of Jimmy Adamson.

Burnley have twice gone 10 without getting their first win, in 1977/78 under Harry Potts, and in 1997/98 under Chris Waddle.