Bradford hero Peter Beagrie has hit back at Terry Burton following the scathing comments of Wimbledon's new manager.

Burton, one of the Wimbledon old guard who took up the post of assistant boss last week and stepped into the hot-seat today following the departure of Egil Olsen, watched the doom-ridden Dons suffer a club record eighth successive defeat in the vital relegation battle at Valley Parade yesterday.

Burton, though, remains convinced Wimbledon are a better side than City, and reckons they will prove it by avoiding relegation.

But Beagrie, who took his tally to seven goals for the season after twice capitalising on mistakes by both linesmen, believes it is the Bantams who have the stomach for the fight.

Beagriesaid: "It's all about opinions, and at this moment I'd rather go into the last two games with the squad of players we've got than the squad they've got.

"We're very together, full of self-belief and on a day when it needed strong characters, we were the team who had them.

"It was a great team effort and there was magnificent spirit again. When the chips were down we came up trumps."

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