A late header from Ben Burgess in the first minute of added time was enough to give Pool the three points at a cold and blustery Bloomfield Road.

Burgess, named as a starter following a month out with injury marked his return to scoring form for the reserves midweek before getting a vital one today.

With three minutes signalled to play in the game, Stephen Crainey crossed the ball from the left where it managed a deflection from the head of a QPR player before falling kindly to BURGESS to nod the ball into the top right hand corner (90+1)

Up until then the game had been quite a slow affair although Pool really did lift the tempo in the final twenty minutes as QPR failed to even test keeper Paul Rachubka for all of the second half.

The first real chance of the game came within the first two minutes when Rowan Vine shot was tipped wide of the post for QPR. Chubs was again in action when he was forced to tip the resulting corner from Akos Buzsaky away from goal.

It was Shaun Barker, reverting back to right-back for the game who then had Pool's first chance but his header looped across goal and wide.

The Seasiders were then dealt a blow when Keith Southern was forced to come off with an ankle knock after twelve minutes after a heavy challenge from Bob Malcolm.

The next chance in the match again fell to Barker as he challenged the keeper with a header once more.

Pool looked to be upping the tempo when Wes Hoolahan whipped a delightful ball in onto the foot of Ben Burgess only for keeper Lee Camp to keep the ball what looked odds on for a goal out of the net after 22 minutes.

Both Ben Burgess and Bartosz Slusarski then had efforts fly over the bar before QPR had a chance of their own from a dubious decision.

The referee had done nothing in the game to appease The Tangerine crowd and that became even worse when he awarded a free-kick inside the Pool area for a passback that appeared to be a deflection from a Scott Sinclair effort. The ball was squared across to Akos Buzsaky who drilled the ball straight into the charging Pool wall.

The game had become a very stop star affair with the referee blowing the whistle on a number of occasions that didn't allow any sort of flow to the game.

It meant that at at half-time it was BLACKPOOL 0 QPR 0.

The second half started slightly brighter yet still efforts were few and far between. Simon Grayson opted to change things early wit Andy Morrell coming on for Bart Slusarski after nine minutes of the second stanza. Six minutes later Gary Taylor-Fletcher joined him on the field after replacing Andy Welsh.

The Seasiders did start to play more fluidly with Gary Taylor-Fletcher playing further forward and at one point he put the ball over but Ben Burgess could only head into the side netting.

Claus Jorgensen then hit an effort over the bar before Andy Morrell went clear down the left and produced a cross come shot that just evaded Taylor-Fletcher with the goal gaping.

Ben Burgess then had another effort that was parried forward by the keeper as The Seasiders began to dominate play but with no end reward.

With two minutes remaining Burgess burst into the box again, played the ball back but it was deflected out for a corner. After that corner had come to nothing it was Stephen Crainey who picked up the ball and after a deflection in mid air Ben Burgess (90+1) headed home to send the Pool fans into raptures.

The Seasiders are now next in action on Monday night when they travel to Scunthorpe in front of the live Sky Sports cameras.