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BURKEY AIMS TO DOUBLE UP

Posted on: Fri 19 Mar 2010

Chris Burke has set himself a goal target of double figures this season - even if it winds up the opposition.

Cardiff City's wing wizard said ahead of Sunday's home match with Watford: "I'm pleased with my goal tally - eight after Tuesday - but I know I can do better and I'm aiming to get into double figures this season."

Burkey's trickery down the right wound up the crowds at Leicester and Coventry as home players fouled him to try and stop him, but the Bluebirds star said: "It's not my job to go out and wind up the opposition. I like to go out and play and give 110 per cent. If that means the opposition getting a bit angry at times, so be it.

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"The Coventry fans weren't happy because their players were penalised for fouling me. I don't mind being fouled but when somebody deliberately tries to hurt me, I get a bit upset. I don't think their fans were happy with me confronting their player, but that's part and parcel of football. It's all forgotten about now, and we must concentrate on Sunday's match.

"Rough stuff is always going to happen because of the type of player I am. I have to ride challenges and I'm going to get brought down, but that's all in the game. I try to stay on my toes and on my feet as much as I can. I don't think I'm a diver. I just pick myself up dust myself down and get on with it.

"I'm delighted with the way my season has gone, and to finish in the play-offs would top it off perfectly.

"It was a massive win at Coventry - and every game is important from now to the end of the season. These are must-win games. If we hadn't won at Coventry we'd have slipped out of the top six and Coventry would have taken our place. We knew what had to be done.

"Other teams may have written us off and thought we'd slip away, but we didn't and hopefully we can stay there now until the end of the season.

"Everybody here believes we can get to the play-offs and everybody here wants it. We don't want to do what we did last season - we're still hurting from it. We have a point to prove to make sure we don't do the same as we did last year. We'll keep our heads down and keep working away, and I think what we did on Tuesday night proved we'll be there at the end.

"There are still 10 games to go and a lot of hard work to be done. We know we're not there yet but we have a great opportunity and it's in our hands. We're in sixth place and we'll strive to be in fifth place. Once we're in fifth place, we'll strive to be in fourth place and so on.

"It will be up and down, it will be unpredictable as the Championship is, but we have to make sure that we're consistent and we stay in that top six. The league is very unpredictable and we don't care how many points we get as long as we finish in the top six. "

 

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