Duncan Barkes

Realised...

that perhaps he should have got closer and maybe not made a tackle, but certainly tried to block a shot.

But anyway, we're 1-0 down.

It was curious how the guy who scored the goal had to summon Blackburn players to come and congratulate him.

He wanted to be mobbed by his teammates.

There's something missing there at Blackburn, I think.

The fans who'd made the huge round-trip journey were curiously subdued, even when they scored the goal.

We didn't get much singing from them.

They didn't remind us that we only sing when we're winning because it does knock the stuffing out of the singing fans for a moment or two or ten.

But they weren't a very good side.

They didn't deserve to be 1-0 up, but there they were 1-0 up.

And we've got a mountain to climb because the statistics are that when we concede first, we hardly ever get anything out of the game.

And we haven't won a game where we conceded first this season.

We've only won four or five now.

So that statistic is hardly surprising.

However, we went in at half-time.

They had to endure that chorus.

It wasn't a huge booing chorus, but there were fans who felt that that needed saying.

I've never met any fans who do that.

I can understand it being almost an instinctive thing.