Hull City 2 Brighton & Hove Albion 0

Today, I was pleased to see Ben Burgess, the Hull City striker who has recovered from a serious knee injury, got on the scoresheet for the first time in 14 months. Burgess replaced Nick Barmby with half an hour to go and made a big impact as he secured Hull's first championship win after 87 minutes.

Hull, who had been struggling to hold on to a first-half lead given them by Ryan France, were relieved when Burgess bundled the ball home after first hitting the post. "It's been a long battle for me but I know I can succeed at this level," he said.

Both teams went into the game looking for their first win and in a scrappy first half there were a lot of mistakes. However, Craig Fagan finally unlocked the Brighton rearguard late in the half with a strong cross-field run followed by a neat lay-off to France whose 20-yard drive was deflected past Wayne Henderson.

Finally as Brighton committed numbers to attack, Hull broke away with Burgess racing into to open field and driving against the post before scoring from the rebound. "I was really relieved that it came straight back to me," added Burgess.