No sentiment from Gray

Last updated : 12 April 2007 By Tony Scholes
As if by coincidence, our next game is against Leeds who apart from being his first club are also the last team he scored against on the night he ended the game with a trip to hospital to confirm he had broken three metatarsals.

Andy has been back in top form over the last three games as the Clarets have finally edged themselves away from the relegation pack after a nightmare run that started with Andy's injury, and now he finds himself facing the side with whom he started his career, and a club his family have been associated with for years.

His dad Frank played for Leeds as did his uncle Eddie and it will be no surprise if television decide to dig up his uncle's goals against us from 37 years ago this month, when he got both in a 2-1 win against us at Elland Road.

Those family traditions, and Andy's own association with Leeds, means he would not want them to be relegated. He started just sixteen games for the Elland Road club, one of which was the 1996 League Cup Final at Wembley, before moving to Nottingham Forest in 1998.

This week he's been speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post about his connections with Leeds. "I've got obvious family connections to the club, I supported them when I was young and I still live in Leeds. Most of my friends are fans. It almost goes without saying that I don't want them to go down," Gray said.

"I never thought it would get to this stage, their squad always seemed too good to me, and I think they'll get out of it. But it's going to be close, and relegation would be a massive blow.

"Of course it disappoints me but at the same time I'm a professional footballer and I've got a job to do on Saturday. There's no room for sentiment. We might look safe but I think the total of points needed to stay up will be higher than it has been for a long time."

It's happened before and it can happen again - I wonder what the price is on a 1-0 Burnley win with Andy Gray to score the goal.