SEAN Dyche has vowed that he and his Burnley players will keep battling until Premier League survival is mathematically impossible - insisting his squad 'have given everything' this season.

The Clarets sit eight points from safety with only three games left to play and will be relegated on Saturday if they fail to win at Hull City.

Dyche is well aware that Burnley's chances of remaining in the Premier League are now extremely slim, admitting they are now into the realms of 'myths, legends and folklore' if they are to avoid the drop.

But he says he will keep fighting until the end.

"I've never thrown in the towel in my career or my life, like many people," said the Burnley boss.

"You bounce off the ropes, come back and take another one.

“You’re going into myths, legends and folklore. That's what it is now.

"I'm a realist. I don't do blind faith. I don't do nonsense.

"But the players will keep going. I'm absolutely sure of that because I'll keep going, which means they will.

"The will and demand from the group has been absolutely fantastic.

"I think our fans have been a shining light of supporting the team this season but there's a link there because they see a team who are giving everything.

"For some of our shortcomings, they see a team giving everything.

"I think as a fan you take that as a minimum, your team giving everything wearing their shirt.

“That's been a minimum we've had and they have given everything."

The Clarets were left so far adrift following a 1-0 loss at West Ham United, which came after Michael Duff was controversially sent off by referee Jonathan Moss for a professional foul when he tripped Cheikhou Kouyate inside the box.

Jason Shackell and Scott Arfield appeared to be covering and Dyche expressed his frustration that such a key decision went against them in a game they had to win, although the manager suggested that there was probably no point in appealing Duff’s one-match ban.

"The sending off changed the whole feel of the game and I think it changed the outcome of the game, quite frankly," he said.

“It’s a penalty but I’m amazed it’s a sending off and wholeheartedly disappointed it’s a sending off.

“I think there were a stadium full of people who were very surprised it was a sending off.

“I can only imagine their manager was surprised it was a sending off.

“The staff were certainly surprised it was a sending off.

“The subs were surprised it was a sending off.

“I think the groundsman was surprised it was a sending off.

“I think the linesman was surprised it was a sending off.

“There was a tube station nearby where they were surprised it was a sending off, but other than that...

"I asked the ref after the game and he said it was because he was ready to shoot and score.

"It's a real sadness to me that at this stage of the season, in these vital games, I'm having to speak about a referee's decision which quite obviously turned the way the game panned out.

"It's hard enough to win games at this level at 11 v 11, for us certainly, but 10 v 11 is very difficult.

"It is a big one to swallow. I was really confident about our teamwork, how we were performing and how the game was looking.

"To have it adjusted by a decision like that was very disappointing."