So, it has come down to this.
The Clarets face the biggest game in their history when they meet Orient at Turf Moor this afternoon (Saturday).
Defeat would mean the unthinkable – relegation from the Football League and a real threat for the future of a founder member, a double champion and a club that just 11 seasons ago was in the First Division.
Brian Miller’s side stands on the brink following a disastrous campaign that has left them hovering just above the trapdoor to the GM Vauxhall Conference.
For the first time, automatic promotion awaits the winner of the Conference title – while either Burnley, Torquay United or Lincoln City must make way as the fall guy.