Brian Laws felt that Tyrone Mears' sending off - just seconds after Swansea had been reduced to 10 men themselves, cost the Clarets a result in South Wales.

Mears saw red for a foul on Nathan Dyer just after he had been clattered by Darren Pratley in a foul that saw the Swans midfielder dismissed.

And as Burnley looked to claw back Scott Sinclair's eighth minute strike, Laws was left to rue a missed opportunity.

He said: "We talk about games that had everything and that certainly did. There was drama passion, two sendings off and two teams going at it hammer and tongs to get a result.

"What it shows is this is no easy league. Swansea are a good side - they showed that this year

"But I thought we gave them too much respect in that opening 20 minutes and once we got to grips with that we were more the probing side.

"We should have come in at halt time level, but we couldn't get the ball in the back of the net.

"The really disappointing thing though is we started the second half well, but everything turned on its head with the sending off.

"We are thinking we have a chance against 10 men, but we only had 30 seconds to enjoy it.

"You have to use your head not your heart and Tyrone, who has been clattered by Pratley for his red, has gone straight into another challenge which left the referee no option.

That's obviously a blow now because we have lost a player when we are chasing the game.

"If we keep 11 v 10, we would have taken something from this game. But unfortunately we never gave ourselves a chance!"