Following an uneventful first period, the teams went in at half-time with the scores standing at 0-0, pretty much a fair reflection of the game at that point.
The referee was very much favouring the home side throughout and despite in the end Burnley having more bookings than Stoke it was only because of how blatant they were. Many free-kicks were awarded against Stoke for dives and soft things that shouldn't have stopped play.
Burnley pressed hard in the second half. They had hit the woodwork in the first half already and they did again in the 60th minute - a header hitting the post and coming back out.
You might have thought it was going to be the Potters' lucky day but you were wrong.
Bjarni Gudjonsson put away a long Van Doerzen cross excellently in the 72nd minute thanks to a driving James O'Connor run forward but it was less than a minute before Burnley had equalised.
A lapse in the defence saw Arthur Gnohere head the ball into the back of the Stoke net.
In the 81st minute Burnley scored their second and winning goal courtesy of Greek under-21 international Dimitri Papadopoulos.
To top the day off the referee sent off Tommy Mooney. He had no idea of the incident but the fourth official told him that Mooney had stamped on a player who had just slid into Mooney from behind, sending him flying backwards - a sending off offence in itself. Mooney received a red card and could now miss up to 3 games as a result.
It was a shaky performance by 'keeper Cutler and the defence in the final 15 minutes. The attack looked better however, and some chances were created.
Burnley fans welcomed back Andy Cooke with warm applause from the beginning of the match and also when he was subbed off near the end.
Peter Hoekstra came on 2 minutes before the final whistle but didn't get a touch of the ball - much too late in my opinion.
Cotterill quotes ...
"I don't like losing 4 games in a season nevermind by the middle of September."
"We seem to be shooting ourselfs in the foot. We need this to hurt so we have that determination to not be beat all the time and its hurting - its hurting everyone - im fed up of it."
"I dont like the losing bit - I dont like letting people down - I very rarely let people down and I dont want to start now."
Stan Ternent quote ...
"It was a good match certainly the 2nd half, I think we shaded it. We were very resiliant - credit to the players."