Outgoing Burnley chairman Barry Kilby takes just as much pride in the club's long-term progress under his watch as he does their Wembley win.

Kilby will stand down at the end of the season to end 13 years in charge at Turf Moor after revealing he is suffering from cancer.

And the 62-year-old ranks establishing the Clarets as a force in the Championship alongside their play-off final victory over Sheffield United to earn promotion to the Premier League three seasons ago.

"That's a very obvious one - the Wembley final that got us back into the top tier of English football after 30-odd years," said Kilby. "But there are other less spectacular ones.

"An achievement in itself has been Burnley Football Club becoming an established Championship team. When I took over in 1999, I think we'd been 16 years out of the top two tiers of English football.

"I think now we are identified as a Championship team - a natural bedfellow with big English provincial city clubs. That's as good an achievement as the obvious ones of winning cup finals and promotions."