PNE up to fourth in table after win over Addicks

Preston are within one win of leaders Coventry

- JOHN SMITH

Having survived the previous night's Storm Amy, just like Dorothy and her dog Toto in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz", I too woke up the following day to find myself in a magical land.

Mine had no yellow brick road to follow but it did have my team playing Charlton on the green turf of Deepdale.

PNE's 2-0 victory over Charlton Athletic stretched our unbeaten home league run to five matches so I, unlike Dorothy, did not have to say the words aloud with my eyes shut or click the heels of any ruby slippers to realise that "There's No Place Like Home".

Although her magical land had felt so real at the end of the film Dorothy awoke to find out that it had all been just a dream, seeing North End in fourth spot in the Championship was very much reality.