We'll take it on the chin and crack on

“Rob hasn’t been able to train with us all week and he’s taken some whacks on the ankle but he put in a real big shift, culminating with the goal, and I am delighted with him,” Blackwell said after the game.

“He didn’t train all week, it has been difficult to get him fit and when he does get fit he tends to get a whack on it. When he went through on half time it was his ankle and we were thinking that was him finished. It is sod’s law, if you have an injury someone will find it.”

He wasn’t too impressed with Hulse’s striker partner Robbie Blake who got the opportunity to play with David Healy only considered fit enough to take a place on the bench. “He was below par,” admitted Blackwell after Robbie had turned in a diving boots performance.

On the alleged incident in the players’ tunnel after the game the Leeds manager said he knew nothing. He knows all about this sort of incident after fighting with Stan Ternent at Bramall Lane in 2001 but said, “I said thanks to the fans because the support was fantastic and I was in the changing room [strange place to be thanking the fans], I am not aware of anything.”

Steve Cotterill also claimed to know nothing but said he would take action if any of the Burnley players were involved. “Honestly, I walking in the dressing room door, then I heard a kerfuffle. I went back out and when I walked back out I had no chance of seeing anything in that tunnel. If I find any of my boys are guilty of anything, they’ll be for it, because we won’t condone anything like that.”

Onto the game and Steve felt we should have got something from the game. “We’re disappointed we didn’t get at least a draw out of that,” he admitted. “We had enough chances to have won the game and they probably only had three chances and tool two of them. There was Robbie’s in the first half, the free kick and Hulse’s header.

“It was a good free kick, so credit to the lad for that and Hulse found himself between two centre halves which is a good position for a centre forward to be in, but we should have stopped the cross before that. We could have defended better, but there is not a lot we can do about that now.

“Leeds have some good players though, but the ratio of chances for them was less than ours and we did enough to get a draw out of that game in my opinion. If we had gone on and got a second we would have killed the game. Sullivan made a great save but we are on to another day now unfortunately.

“We’ll have to take it on the chin and crack on with Leicester now. The performance today was good enough and I am happy with them at the moment. We are a mixed bag but we are pulling together.”