Winger feels at home with derbies and life at Terrors

just always been with me that I need to get a bit of consistency.

“Since the manager’s came in he’s put a lot of faith in me and given me that chance to get a lot of consistency.

“I’m just trying to repay all that faith he’s shown in me.”

McMullan led the celebrations at full-time with the understandablydelighted Tangerines supporters as they got one over on their city rivals and moved nine points clear of them in the process.

Although he was delighted for the fans, McMullan knows the only way to keep that feelgood factor and gap growing is by winning games.

Of the atmosphere the more than 4,000 Arabs created, he said: “It was brilliant, that was the third time I’ve played at Dens and they’ve been brilliant every time.

“Hopefully, we can keep putting on performances and getting results to keep them happy.

“It’s still really early. We’re not concentrating on gaps, we’re just concentrating on getting points on the board and then, once you get to February or March, you start looking at what gaps you’ve got and how you can use things like that.

“It’s just important to get as many points on the board as early as we can and, hopefully, let people try to chase you.”

The next challenge for United comes in the form of Queen of the South at Tannadice on Saturday. And McMullan is keen to put the 4-0 defeat in Dumfries, which sparked their current four-match winning run, behind them.

“We had a great start to the season. I think we won four on the bounce then had a sticky wee spell.

“Hopefully, that’s all behind us now and we can keep churning out the wins.

“Any time we play we want to go and get three points but, obviously, with it being Queen of the South after they turned us over down there, we’ll want a wee bit of revenge for that. Hopefully, we can do so.”