Spicer stunned Blues with his 80th minute winning strike when he capitalised on Martin Taylor's elementary mistake to notch an easy goal. A Blues win would have taken them to the top of the table, but they made a complete hash of their task and with six games remaining to played they only have two more home fixtures. Not for the first time this season Blues experienced problems overcoming a lowly placed club. Burnley fought tenaciously hard throughout the encounter with Wayne Thomas emerging as their stalwart defender shutting out the positive threat of the up and coming striker Nicklas Bendtner. As the game progressed, Blues increasingly struggled to break down Burnley's defensive formation and this proved to be the pivotal tactic in the game. The Clarets never hid the fact that they were out to frustrate Blues at every opportunity and they were highly successful with their tactics. Steven Caldwell and Eric Djemba-Djemba worked tirelessly in midfield for Burnley, but they were in no way assisted by an ineffective Blues attack which failed dismally to penetrate the opposition defence. In the second period, Blues attacked relentlessly with Burnley soaking up the pressure and content to make the isolated breakaway. Even the introduction of the speedy Dudley Campbell failed to produce any change in Blues' fortunes. Recently Campbell's pace has been a match-winning feature in Blues' late surge, but even with four strikers on the pitch, they became increasingly frustrated by their inability to force Burnley to surrender a goal. The Clarets were sufficiently encouraged to show more attacking penetration and this was shown when Wade Elliott broke through to test Colin Doyle with a long-range effort. But in the 80th minute, Taylor made his mistake and Spicer latched on to the ball to ram home an easy winner.