Burnley won a single league game between the start of the season and February 18. But that wasn't their fault: it was Everton's.
The single point in 12 across the last four games was down to Everton, too. And no points in March. And the lone point gleaned in each of August, September and January. All Everton's doing, all their responsibility.
That's the great thing now that every season ends in litigation. Nobody is answerable for their performance any more, unless it's good. Manchester City aren't trying to pin their fourth title in five years on anybody else, but Burnley are treading in the footsteps of Middlesbrough, Wycombe and Sheffield United by implying that they lost football matches through a third party.