He's one of the top strikers in this league

Perhaps Grant would be better actually watching the game rather than ranting and raving at every decision, perhaps he and his dug out staff would be better not employing the childish behaviour that saw them kicking balls away on numerous occasions. Quite frankly they were pathetic and childish so given that, Grant's comments and his suggestion that his Norwich team were the better side on the night probably shouldn't be a massive surprise.

Not even the Norwich fans there will even start to believe him but this is what the poor fool had to say. "I thought all our young lads were magnificent tonight. They passed the ball well and intelligently and worked tremendously hard, with maybe only the final product in the last third lacking a bit.

"They've been a credit to themselves and the club and they're sitting in that dressing room depressed. They are lower than a snake's belly in there but I've told them they've played really well."

Then he got going on the referee and his two assistants. "I have to say the officials were awful tonight, we got nothing from them all night. They got one thing right all night and that was a thrown in right at the death. They have got to take a long hard look at themselves after some of the decisions they made and their general performance throughout."

Now wait for it, he hasn't finished yet. He added: "To lose that game beggars belief. I thought to come away with only one point would have been an injustice, let alone lose three-nothing. Burnley went in front against the run of play, they got their second against the run of play and they got their third against the run of play. I thought we were brilliant."

There we have it, Peter Grant telling us all about the game, with a view that was incredibly different from that of anyone else inside Turf Moor. I'm still wondering whether he'd been on Delia's cooking sherry.

Steve Cotterill is beginning to enjoy the Turf Moor press conferences again. After the Cardiff game he enjoyed a laugh with Radio Lancashire's Scott Read and after a third successive home win he admitted that the third goal had upset his wishes.

"Before the game I said an ideal scoreline would be 2-0 and both strikers getting on the scoresheet. We can't even do that," he laughed, but then seriously added: "If our two strikers haven't got big grins on their faces there is one on mine that is big enough for both of them.

"I would imagine it has been weighing heavily on Andy Gray's mind. He's been playing well enough to have scored goals and that one typifies another good performance from him. You could see the team spirit by the way all the boys ran to Andy after he scored, that is a measure of the team spirit we have.

"The players and fans appreciate him very much and I can't speak highly enough of him because he's one of the top strikers in this league, make no bones about that."

Moving on to Ade Akinbiyi, who got the first goal, Steve added: "Ade has been out of the team recently, but he doesn't sulk and he was the first one on his feet when we scored against Plymouth. He's a good man and he deserved his goal.

"I suppose the third goal was the pleasing one because we created enough chances to win by that margin and we have taken them. The only disappointment was our crossing in the final third, because in the first half we could have opened them up more than once."

Looking forward he said: "We have a break now because we have no game at the weekend so those points were important. They put us in touch with the teams directly above us and if we can keep that going we can finish the season well.

"We've reached the same points total as last season now and have a plus goal difference. We've got three more games to add to it. What we want to do now is try to top the first year we were here and get to sixty points. If we can do that we can banish talking about that run. We've carried it for long enough, so it would be nice to put it firmly behind us."