AIDY Boothroyd watched his side score twice and squander many more in a lively encounter at Turf Moor today (Saturday).

As animated as ever during the game, Boothroyd cut a cool figure in the post-match analysis, reflecting quite calmly on a busy afternoon ay Burnley.

"I thought the game today, was a game of missed chances," said the 37-year-old.

"I thought Jobi McAnuff had a couple and Nathan Ellington had a few, Ade Akinbiyi had some good chances and he didn't put them in and on another day it might have been a 7-4 like it was a couple of years ago.

"If you don't put them in then there's always a chance that they will go up the other end and score, which is what happened to us today. That's something to learn from."

"I've not been too successful in the past, coming here. Although we go to win every game, I think before it we would have settled for a point and carried on trying to improve our home form on Tuesday against Norwich.

"To go ahead twice, even when you don't play particularly well, you'd expect us to win the game and that's what you've got to do to win the Championship.

"I'm disappointed in that aspect and that's because of the standard that the players have set. I thought overall it was a fair result as we shot ourselves in the foot twice.

"I think we saw passion, two teams and two managers and two staffs that want to win. Sometimes it boils over, but I have to say that I thought the referee dealt with it very, very well.

"It's only his sixth game [in The Championship], but I thought he was great today and handled it very well. I'm the first one to bang on the door and tell them when they get it wrong but I thought he did okay - the Burnley fans didn't. It could have spilled over and it didn't.

When asked what it will take to go on and win this Championship battle with eleven games to go, the manager simply responded with: "Consistency and quite obviously, winning.

"That's eight we are unbeaten now, but the last three have been draws and we've got to make sure that we win. It'll be down to the teams that are up there to be consistent and to do the little things well, all the way through the run-in to the final game.

The introduction of Robbie Blake for Ade Akinbiyi proved the defining moment for Burnley and Boothroyd was disappointed at his side's inability to deal with the former Birmingham forward.

"We changed tactically to compensate for him, but obviously we didn't do a good enough job on him because he scored twice.

"We dropped deeper, despite having the wind. If we'd have got a lot higher we'd have negated him but at that stage of the game we were almost hanging on rather than going for it, and if you don't play on the front foot at places like this then you're liable to get scored against."