BURNLEY'S love of London continued yesterday with a memorable 1-1 draw at Loftus Road against Premiership Fulham.

The Clarets are now unbeaten in their last nine visits to the capital, but manager Stan Ternent is now hoping that his side can finish off the tie in the replay back home in Lancashire.

"I am pleased to take them back to Turf Moor and we had to work extremely hard for it," he said. "We knew it was going to be difficult and it was a team effort, it would be wrong to single anyone out.

"They all gave their all and I think that we deserved it. We had great endeavour, commitment, balance and shape. Now I would love to go through to the quarter-finals, that would be marvellous."

And despite home advantage, he insisted that it will still be the top flight club that will be the favourites when they do battle again a week on Wednesday.

"They are a quality team with some very good players, good forward players," he said. "But we will have home advantage and we will give it a good spin.

"It will be a good crowd, a great atmosphere and I hope that the TV will take the game.

"It is my dream that we will go further because the Cup is the Cup. We need our players to play well on the day and the opposition to be a bit off the pace and Lady Luck will play her part. It will come down to who gets a break, who plays well and who takes their chances."

Ternent is already hoping that he will have even more options in team selection for the replay with influential players like Glen Little and Steve Davis not in the 16 on duty yesterday.

But he will have taken heart form the return to action of midfielder Paul Weller who was a late sub against Fulham.

"If I have all my players fit and have them at it, then we are a good side," he insisted.

And while he was proud of his players efforts, he was also very proud of the vocal backing from 3,000 fans.

"We have great traditions at this club, we have won the FA Cup, won the League, played in the European Cup and we have high expectations," he said. "Our fans are fantastic, they love their football and a week on Wednesday Turf Moor will be the place to be. It is quite expensive to football now but we know what they are like."

Fulham will have to defy the record books if they are to go through as they have not won at Turf Moor for 52 seasons and Ternent smiled: "Let's hope it stays like that."

And his determination to make sure that the club's ninth cup clash of the season is not the last was obvious as he said: "We have unfinished business against a Premiership side with very good players but we have to believe we can win it."