Alan Pardew seems to think that being on the back foot for long periods of the game means that the opposition have come to spoil the game. Perhaps he should take more notice of what is actually going on.
Incredibly he said, “It is going to be difficult at home when teams come and set themselves up like
He did though at least have a reasonable view of the incident that saw his substitute Chris Cohen sent off.
“I have no problems with the decision to send off Chris Cohen. He is a young lad and he has a big future for us but he does tend to tackle very raw and he might have gone a little high. There is no malice and he is very disappointed with it.”
Steve Cotterill was disappointed with the result and felt the Clarets deserved something against the team playing in Claret & Blue.
“We probably deserved a draw,” Cotterill said. “I don’t think we did enough going forward to get a win, so it was a draw if anything. We weren’t ruthless enough with our chances in the first half and at a place like this you don’t get many and you have to take them when you get them.
“We started brightly enough and finished strong enough but Steve Lomas gave them a big lift when he came on.”
As for the late incidents that marred the end of the game. Of the first that saw virtually all the outfield players involved the Clarets’ boss added, “I don’t know what it was about, I turned around and all of a sudden it was like WWF,” and then the red card incident, “I couldn’t really see the tackle but Tony Grant has a mark on his leg but is OK.”