Of course if you rely on luck you don't get very far, in football as in life. Indeed, if the League's two bottom clubs had a luckometer to study, I reckon over the season Portsmouth have lucked out more than we have.

And this game was won not by luck but, alas, by the better team on the day, or at least the team which made fewer defensive howlers.

The mood was depressed at the end, but we can still stay up. With Stoke, Wolves and Blackburn to come at home and Wigan and Hull away in the mix - Phil Brown looked rather dapper in a flat cap as he watched on today - there are still games we can expect to win. But we have to face up to the fact if there was one game most would have expected us to win, this was it.

I know I was not alone in my worry that this would not be the plain sailing some predicted against a team newly delivered into administration. Before the game I took my life into my hands as a guest interviewee at Ladies Day, where dozens of well-dressed, well-coiffured and well-manicured ladies pay for the joy of getting well-oiled and well-pampered for the day. Apparently when they went to the dressing room as part of the stadium tour one of them asked to inspect Chris Eagles' jockstrap!

Sky's Soccer Saturday were there to make a little film about the Ladies Day event, which has become a fairly regular feature of Burnley's marketing, and I admitted in a pre-match interview I was more nervous about this one than our last home game against West Ham.

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