Burnley keeper rams Cardiff taunts back down their throats

CARDIFF fans taunted Joe Hart with chants of “England’s No.4“but the big keeper’s grin said it all.

Hart, binned by Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate, played his part in turning this game on its head.

The man who was England’s undisputed No.1 not that long ago pulled off a magnificent flying save to keep Burnley level and then saw Sam Vokes snatch victory two minutes later. Arms crossed, Cardiff boss Neil Warnock stood seemingly dazed by what he had just witnessed. Hart (below with Vokes) took the ribbing in good spirit – he didn’t need telling the terrace chants were the biggest compliment he could receive.

His 68th-minute save was an absolute corker and left Josh Murphy gripping his head in his hands in disbelief.

Hart flung himself full tilt into the air to brush Murphy’s wonderful curling effort over the top of the bar.

Then Burnley launched a rare raid on the home goal and peeled away in delight as Vokes struck with a smash-and-grab glancing header – only the Clarets’ second effort on target in the game.

Their only other one had given Sean Dyche’s men the lead against the run of play shortly after the interval.

Ashley Westwood’s cross was met by Johann Berg Gudmundsson, who leapt above Greg Cunningham with far too little resistance, for the Iceland international to power a header narrowly inside the post.

Murphy sorted out the injustice minutes later with his first goal of the season – a perfectly struck firsttimer that gave Hart no chance.

Cardiff looked set to go on and get their first win of the season until Hart produced his game-changer.

And how crucial that soon proved as Westwood sprang the Cardiff back-line with a precise pass to send Gudmundsson away.

And when he crossed, there was Vokes to steer the ball in.

Poor Cardiff might be used to being beaten – but this one really must hurt. It could prove an expensive defeat come the shake-up at the end of the season and that’s what stings the most. Warnock’s men could have had no idea what was in store for them after dominating the first half. It could be a long, hard winter in South Wales.