HOW gutting was that on Saturday?

I’ve been watching football for more years than I care to remember, but it still feels like a kick in the proverbials when you concede a last-minute goal of any description.

Thankfully it was only an equaliser and not a winner for Hull City.

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To be honest, if we had come away with all three points our friends from East Yorkshire could have felt a little aggrieved because a draw was probably a fair result.

The game itself wasn’t the best spectacle for the greatest league in the world, but the two goals were moments of quality in an otherwise barren landscape.

Steven Defour showed why Sean Dyche was so keen to land him with a Goal of the Month contender we’ll be talking about for years to come.

The midfielder – who was head and shoulders the best player in Claret and Blue – brought the ball down with an exquisite touch in the centre circle before rampaging forward and firing a delightful shot beyond the helpless Hull City keeper.

Until he pulled that out of the hat, we didn’t look like scoring.

In a first half which never really got going I felt we were a little careless in possession, wasting passes and struggling to get any service at all to the front pair of Andre Gray and Sam Vokes.

That said, Hull were reduced to just a couple of efforts of note - the first a routine save for captain Tom Heaton from distance, the second a chance which kissed the far post on its way wide.

The second half we started brighter in terms of keeping the ball more, but until midfielder Defour broke the deadlock it looked odds on like a 0-0 bore draw.

Once ahead we worked hard to keep the Tigers at bay but Robert Snodgrass had the last say five minutes into four minutes of injury time – not that I’m bitter – curling a lovely free-kick beyond Heaton to level things up.

Onwards and upwards as they say and just the small matter of a trip to the reigning champions on Saturday.

Leicester City have had a trip to Belgium this week for their opening Champions League tie against Club Brugge so it will be interesting to see how they cope, especially given an average start to the campaign.