The injured Simon King is replaced by Tony Sinclair at Crewe

We face Bury on Saturday who, like us, are in the chasing pack for promotion, so we know we are going to be in for another tough afternoon.

The game at their place was a great one for the neutral but parts of it were a nightmare for us.

We were sloppy that day and made too many mistakes. But we are a different side these days, confident we can get a result against them.

There will be a familiar face for Bury in Efe Sodje, who is like a Duracell battery, he just keeps going.

But he is still doing a fine job. He is a proper Old School centre half with no frills. He doesn’t mess about, he just defends. It will be a good battle between him and Bayo.

We came away from Crewe last week with a well-earned point and, if you look how good their home record is, it will show how good the point was.

With other results going our way, it keeps us right in the promotion mix.

When you play Crewe, you know that they will always look to keep the ball on the floor and allow the opposition a bit more time on the ball than the normal League 2 sides.

That showed throughout the game as I feel we certainly moved the ball around a lot better than them but we couldn’t create as many openings as we would have liked.

It was an unfortunate goal to concede, with Tony Sinclair caught a little bit flat-footed but I don’t think he was expecting the ball to reach him so it was a bit of a surprise when it came off him and into the goal.

Considering Sincs has been out for such a long time, he did well alongside Garry Richards. Again, though, we didn’t let our heads drop and battled back and deservedly got our equaliser.

It was a fantastic strike by Curtis, something that he is more than capable of. He shows what he is all about in patches throughout games and he would be the first to admit that he could be doing it more consistently.

We tried our luck with a few long range efforts that didn’t trouble their keeper too much.

One person who always seems to manage a shot at goal every game is Barry Fuller. He is encouraged to get forward as much as possible enabling him to get into a shooting position.

I’m sure it won’t be long before we see him stick one in the top corner.

One obvious down side to the game was the injury to Kingy. He felt his hamstring pull after a tackle, which looks like it’s going to put him out for another few weeks.

You can only feel sorry for him because he has worked so hard to get himself back.

He would probably have liked a few more 90 minutes in the reserves just to get the miles back into his legs but, due to injury to the other centre halves, he was called back earlier.

I’m sure he will bounce back again. He won a few quid at cards on the way home which put a smile back on his face.

Last week saw Wayne Rooney score a goal that some people say could be the best ever. I’m not to sure about that. Don’t get me wrong, it was a fantastic finish but give me Trevor Sinclair’s goal for QPR a few years ago any day over that.

Now that was a proper overhead kick. Roberto Carlos’ free-kick for Brazil is also well up there as the best ever.

Let's not forget Tottenham’s Champions League victory in the week against AC Milan.

A victory that looks like costing Alan Julian a few English pounds as he has laid a few bets among the Spurs boys in the changing room.

It certainly doesn’t look great for his beloved Chelsea, either, dropping out of the top four.