Fantastic first game for Scott Parker's Burnley.

I went to the pub last night with my Dad to watch our first game back in the Championship after relegation from this Premier League.

Neither of us was optimistic. Luton has had the same coach for years, much less turn-over of players and was playing at home. Burnley's new coach (Parker) has had only one month to work with the players and inherited a bloated squad of forty players (25 is meant to be the squad size). My Dad and I both thought we'd be up against it and we would have taken a draw or a decent performance in a narrow defeat.

Burnley won 4-1 and put in the best performance I've seen from us for a long time The quality of passing was great, the defense stood tall against a physical Luton team and Burnley scored from three moves that looked trained (a good sign that your coach is on it).

It's only one game and there are other good teams in this league. Leeds United has a Premier League standard team, for example. However, it's really encouraging.

Scott Parker was recruited after Vincent Kompany's shock departure to Bayern Munich. It's surprising because Bayern is one of the biggest jobs in European football and Kompany had just got Burnley relegated.

I really think that Kompany will be a disaster at Bayern because the Burnley team now looks so much better when coached by someone else.

Parker has previously got two teams promoted to the Premiership but had been out of work for eighteen months and had been fired from his last two jobs. Still young (43) he finds himself in a position where he has something to prove. On the touchline, he looked very driven and intense. The players also look very well motivated, happy and confident in their roles.

Long may this continue.