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Vincent Kompany spoke defiantly about taking Burnley’s fate to the final game of the season, but in reality their relegation could be sealed in the next 48 hours.
The result of Nottingham Forest’s appeal against their four-point deduction for breaching the Premier League’s spending rules is due on Monday and if successful they could get two points back.
That would mean the Clarets — already five points adrift of 17th-placed Forest with two games to play — are doomed before their trip to Tottenham on Saturday.
But Kompany will not allow that prospect to distract his focus before a game that he describes as the ‘final’. Even if Forest don’t get any points back, Burnley will go down if they fail to beat Spurs — regardless of the outcome in their last fixture against Forest at Turf Moor.
After a chastening home defeat by Newcastle, Kompany said: ‘We have to look at Spurs as the final game of the
