Zian Flemming scored his first Burnley goal last night to give us a point from a 1-1 draw at Hull to move us back above Leeds into second place in the Championship.
Hull had taken the lead just before half time and despite dominating play in the second half, it was more than half an hour into it when Flemming headed in a Jaidon Anthony cross to secure a point that might just have become three right at the end.
Having had few travel difficulties getting to and from games this season, other than the delays around Oxford which we knew about, this one proved to be a tough journey following news of an accident on the M62 which had reduced the east bound carriageway to one lane forcing lengthy delays.
I was booked on the Supporters? Club coach but I received news of the problem from friends and was able to alert them of the potential problems some time before I boarded at the Turf. Having then picked up the final passengers in Rawtenstall, I hadn?t been expecting to travel via Bacup, Walsden and the likes but thankfully this route got us there although we were still some way from Hull when we received the team news an hour before kick off. Embed from Getty ImagesScott Parker had made two changes to the team that had started the 2-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday. Both did surprise me but it was always likely that there would be some with a midweek game less than three days before Saturday?s home game against QPR.
The first of those changes saw Lucas Pires return for Bashir Humphreys ...