A Hugo lift for Wigan

ON A normal day the sympathy for Burnley would have been all too evident in the wake of this cruel defeat.

Yet it was difficult to find someone who felt sorry for Brian Laws’s side other than themselves as justice was seen to be done at the DW Stadium when Hugo Rodallega’s diving header deep into injury time helped Wigan take a giant stride towards safety and shoved Burnley firmly in the opposite direction.

Burnley played the more positive football and deserved at least a point, let alone nothing, but the fact a second-half incident saw Chris Kirkland, the England and Wigan goalkeeper, struck on the back of the head with a coin thrown by travelling supporters in the goal behind him couldn’t help neutrals believe the outcome was right in the end.