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  2. Preston North End celebrate Milutin Osmajic's goal against Norwich City

  3. Defence inspired Preston win - Heckingbottom

    Preston North End boss Paul Heckingbottom applauds after their win against Norwich CityRex Features

    Preston North End boss Paul Heckingbottom was pleased with his side's performance in their win against Norwich City.

    Milutin Osmajic's goal earned Preston only their third away win of the season and dented the Canaries' hopes of moving into the Championship play-off places.

    Heckingbottom's side have now lost just one of their past eight games in league and FA Cup.

    "I'm really pleased, Norwich are a talented group and to win there you've got to get a lot of things right," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.

    "The players were magnificent for the whole game and Freddie [Woodman] only had one shot to save and that was from distance. That shows how well the team defended.

    "The one critical thing was we didn't take our chances at the other end and make it more comfortable so that shows how well we played."

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  6. Head and shoulders image of Mark Wynn. He is smiling, has short grey hair and is wearing a blue suit and pale blue checked shirt

  7. Zian Flemming

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  11. Who has who in the fifth round of the FA Cup?

    The draw for the FA Cup fifth round has been made. Here is a list of all the ties involving Championship teams left in the competition.

    Games will be played over the first weekend of March.

    • Aston Villa v Cardiff City

    • Crystal Palace v Millwall

    • Manchester City v Plymouth

    • Preston North End v Burnley

    You can find the full draw here.

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  12. Preston North End striker Milutin Osmajic (left) shoots the ball into the Norwich City net to open the scoring.

  13. Head and shoulders image of Mark Birchall in his chef whites with a navy blue apron in the restaurant's garden. He has short dark hair, greying at the sides and beard

  14. An older man smiles at the camera wearing a navy fleece and shirt, and a blue lanyard which says 'staff' on it. Standing next to him is a young girl, with short brown hair, wearing a blue coat, smiling proudly at the camera. Behind them is a construction classroom.

  15. St Bernadette's Parish House, on Bowerham Road. A large detached house with a blue front door and two windows on the second floor. The house is rendered and red brick and has a large asphalt drive to the front.

  16. Sarah Robinson, who is wearing glasses and has dark hair tied back in a ponytail, kiss the cheek of newborn Ida Lock, in a hospital bed.

  17. A family handout of Anthony Shaw. He has short white hair, is wearing a navy blue jacket, and is smiling

  18. Pick of the stats: Burnley v Hull City

    Side-by-side of Burnley and Hull City club badges

    Burnley will look to make up ground in the battle for automatic promotion against relegation-threatened Hull City on Wednesday (19:45 GMT).

    The Clarets knocked out Premier League side Southampton in their 1-0 FA Cup win on the weekend, while their last outing in the Championship served Oxford United boss Gary Rowett his first defeat with the U's.

    Hull City, however, lost against Stoke to see themselves hovering just one point above the relegation zone.

    • Burnley are unbeaten across their last six league games against Hull City (W2 D4), conceding one or fewer goals in each of those matches.

    • Hull City have lost 10 of their last 14 away league games against Burnley (W2 D2), though each of their last two visits to Turf Moor have ended in 1-1 draws.

    • Burnley have kept nine consecutive clean sheets in the Championship – only seven teams in Football League history have kept 10 in a row, most recently Torquay United in League Two between April and August 2010. No side in second tier history has ever kept 10 clean sheets in a row.

    • Hull have won their last three away league games without conceding, having lost five in a row beforehand. The Tigers have never won four away games in a row while keeping a clean sheet each time in their league history.

    • Burnley's 31 Championship games in 2024-25 have seen just 46 goals scored (37 for, 9 against) – at an average of just 1.48 per game, that is the lowest goals-per-game ratio for a team in a season in Football League history.

  19. Jamie Donley celebrating his goal for Leyton Orient during their FA Cup defeat to Manchester City next to Blackburn Rovers boss John Eustace applauding

  20. The entrance to Stanley Park, showing large iron gates between two stone columns. There are single buildings to each side and an asphalt road with double yellow lines in the middle. Some cars are parked to the left in the distance

  21. Oliver Ryan MP for Burnley in his official Parliamentary portrait taken in 2024

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  23. Elsie Dot Stancombe, wearing a red hairband and her school uniform, smiles as she is photographed.

  24. Andy Pratt smiles as he wears a high-vis jacket and brown woolly hat while standing outside.