GEORGE Boyd has had quite enough last-day drama for one lifetime.

The 30-year-old Burnley winger was in the Hull squad who were celebrating automatic promotion from the Championship to the Premier League on the final day of the 2012-13 season.

If the Clarets' battle for promotion goes to next Saturday then it is unlikely to match the fight between Hull and Watford on May 4, 2013, for drama, although with Charlton fans planning various protests against their owners and the potential for delays to the game at The Valley next week, it can’t be discounted entirely.

Boyd, who was on loan at Hull at the time, and his Tigers team-mates were only able to celebrate second place in the Championship long after they had finished their own final game of the season, at home to champions Cardiff, had ended.

A victory over the Bluebirds would have guaranteed Steve Bruce’s side promotion, but Nicky Maynard’s penalty with the last kick of the game secured a 2-2 draw for Cardiff and left Hull on tenterhooks, with the home side having missed a penalty of their own in the second minute of stoppage time to go 3-1 up.

A win for Watford, who were at home to Leeds, would see them overtake Hull in second, and although the games kicked off at the same time, they were well behind at Vicarage Road after a long delay for treatment to Hornets goalkeeper Jonathan Bond.

Watford were down to 10 men but level at 1-1 as Hull’s squad gathered in the tunnel at the KC Stadium to watch the closing 10 minutes at Vicarage Road, and they erupted when Leeds’ Ross McCormack scored in the final minute to end a dramatic day.

“I don’t want that again. It was horrible,” Boyd recalled said of an afternoon that featured more emotions that he can begin to recount.

“We were waiting after the game for Watford and watching it on the TV. You don’t want to watch that.”

That day had began with Hull’s promotion in their own hands, and victory over Queens Park Rangers on Monday would guarantee Burnley the same thing if it does go down to the last day.

“As long as it’s in our own hands that’s all we can want,” said Boyd, who played 13 times in Hull’s promotion-winning season after signing on loan in February 2013.

“We don’t want to be hoping that people lose or draw. We want it so that if we win we’re promoted.”

In that season Hull were promoted with just 79 points in second, a tally Burnley passed this season with five games still to play.

They are on 87 with two games left and wins over QPR and Charlton would see them the match the total of 93 they secured in 2013-14 when they finished second behind Leicester.

That was a record points tally for a second-placed finish since the Premier League and Football League restructuring for the 1992-93 season and it could be matched again this year for the runners-up.

This could also be only the second time since then a team could gain more than 90 points in a season and not go up automatically.

Burnley, Middlesbrough and Brighton have set a remarkable standard, and Boyd knows how much tougher this term has been this time around compared to his first experience of promotion to the top flight.

“I said that (going up with 79 points) to the boys the other day. We would’ve been up by now.

“There are three stand-out teams, we would’ve expected Derby and Hull to be up there as well, but we’ve pulled away a bit. It’ll be a high points tally this year.”

The Clarets are have put themselves in prime position thanks to a 21-game unbeaten run since Boxing Day and Boyd revealed there is a feeling on invincibility in the camp at the moment.

“I’ve had it in previous promotions,” he added said the 30-year-old. “You go in to every game thinking that you’re going to win it and that’s exactly what we’ve got at the minute. We don’t feel like we can get beat and that’s a great thing to have.”