But that makes the dismal West Ham United showing all the more frustrating, admits the defender, who, in a brutally honest assessment, says [Newcastle](https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/football/newcastleunited/?ref=ed_direct) need to deliver the same level of performance in the routine Premier League away games as they do in the special European nights at St James' Park.
United have won their last four games in all competitions on home turf but haven't won on the road since April, with Burn admitting Newcastle "let themselves down" at West Ham.
That was followed by some "very painful" analysis and "uncomfortable conversations", but Burn believes Newcastle's wretched recent record on their travels "comes down to mentality".
So, how do they put it right?
"Probably be a bit more ugly with stuff," reckons Burn.
"We were well known a few years ago for – I won’t say the word but something-housery – and probably a lot of the stuff that has come in has pushed us away from that.
“But if you go away from home, sometimes it’s important not to get beat as well, pick up points and keep yourself ticking along.
"As long as you’re winning your home games, and not getting beat away, it’s better but we have not done that well enough.”
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Burn continued: "The frustrating thing is we have the Champions League tomorrow and everyone knows we will turn up for that game and the crowd will be buzzing and we'll be buzzing and at it. It's about replicating those performances away.
"The years we've done well, the year we first qualified for the Champions League, we weren't always playing great away from home but we always picked up results. Maybe we need to do more of the ugly side of the game that we were known for at the time and might have come away from that.
"Of course it's frustrating. It's very easy to get up for these games and play in these Champions League nights but Brentford is the type of game where you really need to earn your money and turn up and perform.
"That's the frustrating thing for us. We have lads in there who can do it and will do it and a squad that fights for each other, but we're just not putting in those performances away from home."
Burn is a lifelong Newcastle fan, which inevitably - unfairly - can lead to further scrutiny after bad displays and results.
But the England international said: "To be perfectly honest I really don’t care what anybody thinks, genuinely, as long as my team-mates have that respect for me and know that I’m doing things well and the manager does, then everybody else’s opinion doesn’t really matter.
“I understand that, there will always, whatever I do, be people’s opinion who say this person shouldn’t be playing or I shouldn’t be playing for England or I shouldn’t be doing this. I feel like I just control what I can control and everything else will take care of itself.”
Nobody in the Newcastle dressing room has played as many minutes as Burn this season, though the defender has had to move from his preferred centre-back spot to left-back in recent weeks to cover for the injured Lewis Hall.
‘I still think I’ve been playing pretty well, the West Ham game aside. I feel I’ve put in good performances at left back," said the 33-year-old.
"Don’t get me wrong, I’m a very different style of full back to Tripps, Tino or Lewis Hall. I won’t produce the same things they do.
"But the manager thinks I can do what he wants me to do in that position.
"I want to play centre half. That is my best position. I was player of the year last season in that position.
"But I just want to play football and, if the manager thinks I can help the team playing there - and obviously we’ve had some injuries in that position - then I’m happy to do that."