BREACHED AT LAST
When Burnley conceded an 80th-minute consolation goal in their final game before Christmas last year, their fans could scarcely have imagined they would go on to play 12 consecutive games in the Championship without letting in another. Still scarred by the memories of their team shipping three or more goals on 12 occasions in the Premier League last season, the denizens of Turf Moor are not used to defensive parsimony, so when Kwadwo Baah scored for Watford on the shortest day of the year, they they would not have envisaged a splendid scenario where their team would play matches against Sheffield United, Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland, Plymouth Argyle, Leeds United, Portsmouth, Oxford United, Hull City, Preston and Sheffield Wednesday without their goalkeeper James Trafford being called upon on a single occasion to pick the ball out of his own net.
