Duncan Barkes

We just didn't get any luck in their box.

People will argue that we weren't sharp enough, creative enough, whatever.

But we just didn't get the rub of the green.

The rub of the green, the luck of the draw.

Football's very much about those sorts of things.

Most sports are, actually.

But maybe football in particular has to do... I remember Sven-Goran Eriksson, when he was asked about the difference between two teams, he said sometimes it's simply the coat of paint on the posts.

And you can see what he means by that.

And that's pretty much how it was against Preston.

We were the better side.

We were.

Easily, actually.

Just look at the corner count.

I mean, any clever gambler who plays spot gambling, who backed corners, is currently rolling in money.

We were so superior to them in so many ways.

But they got a fluke goal.

Come back to that in a second.

We're not tall enough.

And the one thing that I carried with me from the first half was one of their first corners, probably their only corner, actually, in which I was looking at who was marking who.

And at this level in football, it's determined previously.