KOMPANY FEELS AT HOME IN DROP FIGHT

VINCENT Kompany claims he has become “pretty spectacular” at hitting his well-worn reset button because of Burnley’s dismal campaign.

The Clarets are 11 points from safety heading into tomorrow’s clash with Bournemouth, and Kompany has become adept at switching off from the Clarets’ troubles when he goes home to his young family.

He says spending time with his wife Carla and their three children takes his mind off the club’s plight and they have taken just two points from their last 10 games.

“of course, you go home and you take it with you, but then it depends on your support system,” said the Burnley boss (above).

“I’m lucky to have kids at a beautiful age. maybe when they’re teenagers and I have a different conversation with them, it’ll become tougher.

“But right now, they want to play with their toys, they want to play video games, and you haven’t got time to dwell on things too much.

“It’s important and unusually my reset button is, if I say so myself, pretty spectacular.”

Kompany also visualises the fans who have lost faith in him and his team roaring their support like they did back in may when they walked the Championship. “It’s also a mindset,” he explained. “Not so long ago, I was facing 60,000 people on a balcony and I gave them a wave and I got a wave back.

“Then you do an open-bus parade and everybody’s chucking shirts, scarves and flowers, and I think just for a split moment, ‘What if things don’t happen this way?’

“What if you have a moment where you’re struggling and those same people may be angry at you?

“I knew in that moment that it could happen in eight months’ time and here we are now.

“So how do you visualise the future? I visualise the same people who are angry now being the ones who are again waving, cheering and being with us.”

Kompany is using all his experience to pick up his players and insists he still believes in them.

“players usually lose belief in themselves quicker than those around them,” he added.

“I feel it’s important to show you believe in them, that you trust them, that you believe they can turn the corner not in a month’s time, but in the next game.

“The first thing players feel is, ‘am I going to get singled out? am I going to get the blame?’.

“For me it’s more effective to show them, just go again.”