I'm no lover of the Gibson's, but I have no idea what you're on about saying remotely true. This was out of Ben Gibson's mouth stating he was frozen out at Burnley and the rumour was that Dyche did not rate him in any shape or form.
It's got nothing to do with empathy. He's made a rod for his own back, but if you want to feel sorry for someone who's made countless poor decisions, carry on.
They should have had more than 8 actually. They started going for penalties so Jim Platt could score and that would have equaled every member of the team scoring in the promotion season.