The end might have finally come on Friday but Sean Dyche's Burnley first ceased to truly exist in late August 2018.
Two legs against Olympiacos turned the people who really matter inside a dressing room away from him. Not completely, but enough to contribute to a slow decline.
Dyche loyalists, the players who went that bit further and made up for the club's under-investment in recruitment, were never quite the same.
Burnley were in the Europa League, a tie away from reaching the group stage.