Striker DJ Campbell says his winning goal against Burnley on Saturday was one of the most significant he has ever netted. The on-loan QPR man made it 2-1 to the Blues in the 87th minute to win Town their first home league game since March at the 11th attempt.
He said: "That has to go down as one of the most important goals of my whole career. Apart from being a key goal in terms of the club’s position, in terms of quality it was also one of the sweetest I have scored for a long, long time.
"When the ball came over from Carlos Edwards on the right it looked perfect for me to head. But I suddenly changed my mind and it dropped beautifully on to my right foot and I was able to cushion it past the keeper.”
Campbell, who is 31 today, says it was a gritty rather than silky performance: "We had to fight and battle sometimes. It wasn’t pretty but these are difficult times for the club and this win was Manna from heaven for us all.”
In terms of his longer-term future, he says he’s not sure what will happen: "I’ve got four goals in seven games here now so you have to say I’m not doing too badly.
"I like Ipswich but my loan is up in January and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens then.
"It will be up to what the people at QPR decide they want to do and whether Ipswich want to keep me on or not.
"The manager has been stressing how important it is that we become a team that is hard to beat and that’s what we were today because we never gave up.”
Meanwhile, Burnley striker Sam Vokes claimed the Clarets’ goal despite the ball appearing to go in off Blues defender Danny Higginbotham: "Junior Stanislas has put in a marvellous cross and I just got a nick on it, so I’m taking that as my first goal."
Vokes felt Daryl Murphy’s opener for Town oughtn’t to have counted: "Everyone was unhappy with the goal. As a striker I feel sometimes goalkeepers are protected but this time it was definitely a foul.”