GOALSCORER Aaron Pierre took double pride in scoring the winning goal in tonight’s tussle at Morecambe because as well as maintaining Wanderers’ 100 per cent start to the league campaign it silenced the home side’s wind-up merchants who had been trying to rile him and his teammates.

The game was never far from boiling over, particularly in the second half, and it did do at full time with players from both sides having to be pulled apart at the final whistle as tempers flared. Blues’ players were eventually ushered away into the corner to take the applause of their fans while the Morecambe players were led down the tunnel.

Pierre said: “It was extra special to score here and to win here because of particular players in the Morecambe team. I don’t want to say any names but if you watch the highlights you will see. It’s not the nicest part of the game but sometimes people’s passion and feelings get the better of them. But as long as we get the three points it doesn’t bother me at all. We got the three points, so I don’t care.”

It was not a vintage performance by any means but the injury-hit Blues showed all their resilience and togetherness to claim their second away win in the space of four days.

Pierre said: “You can’t have the nice technical game where you are dominating the opposition all the time, sometimes you just have to pull up your sleeves and battle and tonight was one of those games. It was old school, win tackles, win headers and graft your way through. We had to do the not so nice side and we did it well against a big and strong team and proved that we are no pushovers.”

Wanderers’ win came despite Pierre being the club’s only fit centre half with Anthony Stewart injured  and Danny Rowe also laid up while Joe Jacobson had to start the match still sporting a bandage protecting the stitches he had in a head wound following Saturday’s bruiser at Barnet.

Pierre said: “We are true warriors, the gaffer wants passionate players and that’s what he’s got. We are a dressing room full of desire and of people who are determined to be the best they can be even though we have fewer players than the other clubs.”

Those ‘warriors’ became club record breakers at the final whistle – with their three straight wins – representing the club’s best ever start to a Football League season.

Pierre said: “It’s always good to break records because it is there for a lifetime that we were the first to do it. We’re at the top of the table, but we are still underdogs. We will take it step by step and see what happens.”