YOU GET YOUR FAIR SHARE

TWO men sharing a room is not something that happens often in everyday life, but it's something we have to do regularly.

There is nothing quite like being woken up by a six-foot bloke's heavy breathing inches from your face.

I'm quite lucky at the moment as my current 'roomie' Ian Evatt has only one annoying habit - waking up at seven every morning, and I like my lie-ins!

Two ex-teammates, who will remain anonymous for their own sake, would strip off all their clothes as soon as they got in to the room and would stay that way until they left. Needless to say they wouldn't get many visitors.

On my first ever away trip as a 17-year-old with Blackburn I shared a room with Nathan Blake, and there was only going to be one winner in the battle for the remote control.

It can get boring being stuck in a hotel for a few days so as you can imagine there are a few antics.

Kiegan Parker got probably the best surprise on an away trip. He lifted the toilet seat in his room only to be faced with a pig's head nestling in there, and a fish hidden in his bed.

If you were a new player at my old club Brentford then you would get a nasty surprise after dinner. Your bed would be outside the room, the TV would be in the bathroom and the entire contents of your washbag would be squirted and sprayed over your boots and clothes.

Also from my time at Brentford I shared with Jason Price, who insisted on doing naked stretching in the room.

All sounds a bit childish but it helps to keep morale up.

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DURING the game last Saturday our fans came up with a great song for me, although I was a little disappointed at first.

I had just scored and I was sure the fans were singing, 'Let's all laugh at Burgess', which I thought was a bit harsh . . . but then I realised they were singing, 'Let's all DO the Burgess', and the crowd were flapping their arms in recognition of my bird celebration.

Unluckily I didn't manage to get the fans flapping at QPR on Tuesday, where we attempted to entertain the billionaires and supermodels watching the game from their luxury boxes.

I'm not sure we will see them in the return fixture at Bloomfield Road.

We did manage a very creditable draw, although it was a tedious trip home as we didn't arrive back in Blackpool til half three in the morning.

Every time we head to London on the coach the same argument comes up with the driver . . . the congestion charge.

If we want to save all that time by avoiding the traffic we actually have to all chip in a pound each to pay for the toll.

Can you imagine Alex Ferguson turning to the back of the bus and saying, 'Hey, Dimitar and Rio, copper up for the toll'!

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THE end of a tough week sees us unbeaten in three hard games, but we are a little disappointed we only picked up a point in each!

But saying that our draw with Cardiff on Saturday was possibly a bit fortunate as they created a lot of chances and it took a 95th-minute equaliser from us to salvage the draw.

We have no game for a couple of weeks now due to the international break, so everyone is looking forward to a rest!

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