I RECEIVED my weekly Sky Sports email from my mobile phone on Saturday asking my predictions for their ‘Super 6’ competition, which gives you a chance to win £250,000 for guessing all six results.

Jeff Stelling was informing punters that a massive 98 per cent of players were backing Chelsea to beat Burnley.

Bad call folks!

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Of course I did my best to reduce the percentage by submitting my 2-1 to the Clarets scoreline. But what it showed me was that virtually everyone was writing this one off as a certain away defeat.

For that reason alone I’m glad that Burnley proved so many people wrong as they battled fiercely for their 1-1 draw. Some more fiercely than others, as our warrior-in-chief Ashley Barnes roughed up the opposition, which led to the sending off of Namanja Matic for retaliation.

It was a reckless challenge to be fair, but we need players like Barnesy on the pitch at this crucial period to add that physical presence to the game.

Ben Mee headed in a goal to remember to send our corner of the Shed End into raptures, and at the death Danny Ings could have been a real coupon buster if he’d managed to score from a breakaway move.

So I’d had a good afternoon in Putney, seen my team take a point from the Premier League leaders, and even managed to board the tube train without incident.

Any negatives? Yes, my National Express coach was delayed on the return journey and I missed us on Match of the Day!

In order to have a chance of survival it may mean that Burnley will have to do something that they haven’t done so far, and that is to win another five times.

With just a dozen games left it is vitally important that we keep up with the main bulk of the relegation pack. where a three-point gap has opened up between fourth bottom QPR and fifth bottom Sunderland, or before you know it a permutation of any here from 10 for the drop could drastically transform into just three from an ever desperate four.

Expect the intensity of every match to ratchet up a notch as the fixtures diminish.

Swansea City are our next visitors, a team like ourselves who survived demotion from the Football League on the last day of a season. It goes to show that miracles do happen. Right now we need a little one ourselves.