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Whether we should have been playing against nine men is open to debate and once again the hard done too manager, just as it was with Steve Cotterill the week before, seems to have had the best view.
Bradford boss Nicky Law was far from pleased and turned his anger on referee Mike Dean and Burnley’s Dimitri Papadopoulos having seen his side have two players sent off. After the game a furious Law said,
"It was 9 v 12 out there today. If we had been able to keep a full team out on the pitch we would have smashed them but if the referee kept on going the way he did we would have had another Sheffield United on our hands and had the game abandoned.
"Their centre forward was diving all over the place. It was disgraceful the way they got away with it. Mark Bower was hit in the face and when the linesman flagged and called the referee over Mark was the one penalised and got sent off. We’ve had three match reports of Burnley and they all told us about the striker diving all over the place so you can’t go near him.
"Danny (Cadamarteri) has never elbowed him (West) and the referee has got the video.
"The whole situation was ridiculous. The match officials are making the game go the way it is. We will certainly be appealing against the sendings off. I have no idea why Ian Banks was sent off at the end either but with that referee anything was likely to happen.
"I was disappointed not to have won the game, we were the better side by far but have to be glad to have got a point. It almost felt like we had won and Burnley must have felt like they had lost. We fully deserved the point. We worked extremely hard and if you don’t work hard with nine men you are in trouble."
Incredibly Stan made little or no reference to how badly we had played and did not seem over concerned with the way we approached the last fifteen minutes. What the fans described as disgraceful Stan said was being comfortable. He even suggested the fans were disappointed.
"I’m extremely disappointed not to have got the three points which I felt we should have had. The skip has made a mistake and they have got through for an equaliser at the death. A third goal would have killed it but we didn’t get one.
"At 2-1 up we were coasting and in complete control of the game but we made a blunder and were punished for it. We were comfortable but you pay the price for mistakes.
"But I prefer to look on the bright side and we got a point. That makes it six games without defeat and we’re on the up now. "We are all as disappointed as the fans and you can’t legislate for mistakes like that"
Burnley pay for late blunder
Peter Keeling (Daily Telegraph)
Former Everton striker Danny Cadamarteri's troubled career took another downward turn when he was shown the red card for using an elbow on Dean West, team-mate Mark Bower having already preceded him in the quest for an early bath with two yellow cards.
With Robbie Blake returning to Valley Parade to score a second-half goal and Burnley defender Steve Davis, normally so professional, acting like an amateur in the final minute to gift Bradford a point, it was never boring.
Bradford were well worth the 17th-minute lead that Andy Gray gave them by completing an opening set up by Wayne Jacobs and Cadamarteri but they started to unravel in the 35th minute when Bower was dismissed.
And it was no surprise when Blake equalised three minutes after Bradford were reduced to nine men, scoring in the 57th minute following a cross by Lee Briscoe.
Double-marked for most of the game, Glen Little found the room and his clinical far-post ball in the 76th minute saw Gareth Taylor head what looked like being the winner until a mistake in the closing seconds by substitute Davis. An unnecessary passing movement across the backline ended with Davis presenting the ball to Claus Jorgensen who set up Michael Proctor for the equaliser.
