A MYSTIFIED Sam Allardyce has slammed Blackburn Rovers’ ‘false start’ habit as unacceptable after watching his side throw away another winning position.

The angry Rovers boss gave his side an ear-bashing after Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Fulham as they let a lead slip for the third time in their first five Premier League games.

Chris Samba’s flicked first-half header put a then dominant Rovers in the ascendancy but, by the end, Clint Dempsey’s headed equaliser was the least the Londoners deserved.

After opening their campaign with a win against Everton, Rovers have seen leads at Birmingham and Manchester City lost and now Saturday’s collapse has left Allardyce warning ‘no more’.

He said: “I am baffled why we go worse when we get a goal in front and are playing at home.

"I can’t understand it, but that is what I saw and that is what happened.

“We have been in front four times out of five and we have only won once.

"That is unacceptable. It is not the way you go about your job.

“Getting in front again today and not winning means we have been in front four times this season.

"The hardest thing to do is getting a lead, the easiest thing to do is maintain that lead, or should be.

“We are finding that very difficult at the moment, which we didn’t do last season and that why we finished 10th.

"Unfortunately we weren’t quite professional enough to do it.”

Winless in four Premier League games now, Allardyce knows Rovers wasted an ideal opportunity to climb up the league table.

But, after seeing his side produce such a disappointing last hour, the Rovers boss admits it might have to go down as a ‘good point’.

He said: “I tried to put that right at half time and said we needed to get back on the front foot and what we did in the first 30 minutes. Unfortunately we didn’t do that.

“There is a time when the opposition will always get in the game and we have got to make sure we are resilient enough to overcome that time without conceding a goal.

“Our performance in terms of where we were at the first half looked like it was going to be a good afternoon but unfortunately we let that performance slip into a nervy edge performance.

“We haven’t deserved more than a point though and so it is probably a good point but we have to try and make up for the points we have thrown away against Birmingham and Arsenal.

“We have let some slip today that, while not playing well, we should hang on to a lead.

"You have to get what you don’t deserve sometimes and today should have been a perfect example of that.”