The Rams have a reputation for never making things easy. Even so, when Steven Bywater went for a long ball and Albrechtsen got in his way, McCann's 59th minute goal looked like making it one of those bad old days. Burnley had to win today to keep alive their chances of automatic promotion, and miss out on all the fun of the play-offs. Son of Clough took Kris Commons off for Villa, and Pearson off for Kazmierczak, but his biggest contribution has been team building. In the 3rd minute of extra time this paid off with a diving header by Connolly from Teale's centre and a GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

1-1, the 48th point from 39 games. Nigel? "We think we deserved it over the course of the game. We felt we more than matched them for long periods. We are really pleased with the way we went about it today and it's another game chalked off. We are in a better position than we were before the game and we are creeping towards that 50-points mark."

Off to Europe mid-week, that's Cardiff on Wednesday. They have a tough old home derby game tomorrow first against Swansea. Could be fun.