Six of Sean Dyche’s eight full seasons in charge of Burnley were in the Premier League, winning promotion in his first and third full campaigns in charge.
But since sacking Dyche in April 2022 with the club four points adrift with eight games left, they have not stayed still.
The Clarets went down that season.
Under Vincent Kompany, they won the 2022-23 Championship title with 101 points – before being relegated with just 24 points.
With Parker in charge, they went up again with 100 points, only conceding 16 goals, but have now been relegated with four games remaining.
“It’s a difficult one because we’ve been a bit spoiled with the Sean Dyche era when we even got into Europe one year – we overachieved massively,” said Little, who played for the club in the second and third tiers between 1997 and 2004.
“He didn’t even really spend a lot of money and it was just a good set of lads, good characters who managed to all grow together.”
Little continued: “Vincent Kompany totally changed the style of football, the way we played. They were one of the best Championship teams we’ve ever seen.
“It was the first time where we actually went up and spent a lot of money. A lot of young players, a lot of foreign players, which wasn’t necessarily the Burnley way.
“And then straight back down, and Vincent Kompany leaves for Bayern Munich.
“It’s left to Scott Parker to deal with the Championship. A lot of players left, it was all a bit of a mess, but they regrouped and had another great season.
“They signed a few more experienced players this time, so they tried a different style of signings, but then that hasn’t worked either.”
The supporters are not happy.
As the BBC’s Burnley fan writer Natalie Bromley put it this week: “We are so very weak as a club. A club of nothingness. With no clear identity and none of the East Lancashire grit that has run through our DNA since 1882.”