“Your team’s a disgrace, your team’s a disgraaaace.

“Gus Poyet, your team’s a disgrace!”

Good Friday, 2012. No-nonsense Burnley were snuffing out slick-passing Albion, whose play-off push was faltering.

And the locals in East Lancs were loving it.

“Go back to Argentina,” Vicente was told by a fan as he was muscled off the ball again and earned a yellow card for his complaints.

Burnley has never been a welcoming place for Albion, not between kick-off time and full-time anyway.

They are very friendly before and after that.

“Jimmy Anderson used to play here,” the man on the gate might tell you if you park at the neighbouring cricket ground.

But that 1-0 defeat 12 years ago was one of not so many setbacks for the Seagulls on their most awkward, if not longest, away trip of the Premier League calendar.

You don’t have to come from Valencia (or Argentina) to feel a long way from home at Turf Moor.

The view of the terraced rooftops behind the old main stand, often being bombarded by driving rain and high winds and occasionally sprinkled with snow, is a classic shot of northern England.

Conditions were inclement in the extreme last time Albion lost at Burnley.

Leading up to Christmas in 2018, the Seagulls were very respectably placed in mid-table and the Clarets were down in 19th after playing briefly in Europe early in the season.

But Sean Dyche’s side scored early from a corner when a shot went in off James Tarkowski and held on for the points in the wind and rain as Jurgen Locadia headed a great chance over the bar near the end.

After the game, Albion skipper Bruno attempted to do an interview in the media area, situated outdoors and in a wind tunnel, all the time trying to hold the flimsy hood of his training top over his head as the gale tried to remove it.

And then, as the interview ended and the hood was blown away again, he shouted in English: “F...ing hell!”

Then there was arriving back in Brighton at 6am after seeing a 0-0 draw on a Tuesday night and being delayed on the way home by various motorway closures.

Many homeward-bound Albion fans will have found themselves stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of Stafford at about 2am that night.

And yet there are good memories. And a pretty good record.

The two stunning Craig Mackail-Smith goals for a 3-1 win in 2012-13 stand out.

A comeback on the opening day two seasons ago to win 2-1 in the first game when fans were allowed back in big numbers after Covid.

Aaron Connolly and Yves Bissouma treating armchair fans to great strikes in a 2-1 success behind closed doors.

And Robert Sanchez being described as a “monster” in goal by Graham Potter after his huge part in forcing a 1-1 draw.

Albion have recorded three wins, four draws and one defeat in their eight trips to Burnley since that 1-0 Good Friday setback.

Yes, the one when Gordon Greer (who is from Port Glasgow) was told he was a soft southern whatever by a chant after he clashed with Burnley striker Charlie Austin (who is from Hungerford).

For two clubs so far from each other geographically, there have been surprisingly numerous recent examples of players appearing for both clubs.

Ashley Barnes, Stephen Ward, Dale Stephens, Sam Vokes, Chris Wood, Shane Duffy.

Oliver Norwood never played for the Clarets because Manchester United spotted him very early but he is as Burnley as they come.

“No nay never” is the song they sing at Turf Moor.

But they will feel more like “now or never” as they host Albion, then go to Sheffield United with games running out in the push for safety.

They will hope to remain in touch in the knowledge their final game of the season is at home to Nottingham Forest.

The footballing challenge facing Albion will be very different to what they came across in recent seasons at Turf Moor.

But it feels like another draw suits neither side.