by GLEN LITTLE

WELL it's been a pretty whirlwind week.

It started out just like any other, with training at Bolton on Monday.

But then everything changed when I got a telephone call on the way home to tell me Burnley wanted me to go back straight away.

When I arrived and saw that we had more bodies in the treatment room than on the training pitch, it was pretty obvious why!

In all honesty it's good to be back after so long away and pretty quickly it was business as usual with the build up to the Wolves game.

Obviously I was delighted to be involved again after such a long time away from the club.

Believe it or not, the last meaningful game I started was at home to Crewe back in late August, so I've been itching to get out and play a full 90 minutes again in front of a crowd.

It's a habit you quickly get out of because life was stop-start at Bolton, with the gaps in the fixtures and the untimely injury I picked up.

Also, when you are on the bench, you lose the cycle that goes from Saturday to Saturday. It feels almost like you are having the weekend off in effect.

I feel my fitness is great at the moment, and it's just unfortunate that it wasn't a winning return at Wolves on Tuesday.

We were well in control of the game and it just turned into the same old story of giving away cheap goals that cost us dearly.

I thought we absolutely played them off the park in the first half with some really great football.

The second half started okay but suddenly, within a minute or two we were behind and chasing the game.

The second goal late on killed the game off, but it was always going to be an uphill battle after losing the first so cheaply.

I think it's fair to say all the lads were a bit disappointed in the dressing room afterwards because we felt we let Wolves get away with murder.

They weren't very good at all on the night and will just be happy to have scraped through to the next round.

So it's back to league matters now and an important game against Cardiff at the weekend.

It will be great to be running out at the Turf again and I was delighted when I heard both Delroy Facey and Gareth Farrelly will be here for a third month.

Naturally I've only seen a few of the games with being at Bolton, but it would have been a shame to come back to Turf Moor and see both lads going straight back in the opposite direction.

Delroy in particular, has been a revelation.

But more importantly at the moment, the size of the squad means it's all hands to the pumps and those two extra bodies can make all the difference.