THERE’S little better in football than seeing your side score a late goal, whether it’s a dramatic winner or a vital equaliser.

Equally, there’s not too much worse than watching them concede in the final moments and having to endure the opposition celebrating when you know there’s almost certainly not enough time for your team to grab another.

Town fans have experienced both sides of the late goals coin in the last few days.

At Hull City on Saturday, Jordan Spence stuck out a leg to claim an 88th-minute point as the Blues drew 2-2, their ninth last-gasp goal of the season.

Then at Portman Road on Wednesday Town looked well on their way to a well-deserved three points against Sheffield Wednesday when, in the fourth minute of injury time, the Owls broke, Adam Reach crossed and Atdhe Nuhiu rose highest (to be fair that’s not too hard for the 6ft 6in tall Kosovan international) to steal a point, the game again ending 2-2.

While Hull fans might have felt irked at losing out on a couple of points on Saturday, Town could make a decent case that a draw was a fair result.

But on Wednesday the Blues really should have been out of sight and the Owls shouldn’t have been in a position to score their late leveller.

Town had had the better of the goalless first half with Wednesday’s Keiren Westwood by far the busier of the two keepers, if not forced to make any really notable saves.

The deadlock was finally broken just after the break, Joe Garner hooking home a volley from a corner, and that should have seen the Blues on their way to their sixth home win of the season.

However, a freakish penalty - Spence had missed a header and the ball subsequently struck his arm - netted by Gary Hooper restored parity with the Owls previously having shown little sign of getting back into it.

But the Blues got their noses in front again when Emyr Huws created Martyn Waghorn’s ninth of the season with his first touch of the campaign, having come on as a sub following his long absence with an Achilles injury, and Town had had opportunities to increase their lead before Nuhiu’s late goal.

That his header and Hooper’s penalty were Wednesday’s only shots on target during the whole game illustrated the smash and grab nature of their point.

Manager Mick McCarthy blamed naivety and a series of mistakes in the build-up. Difficult to disagree with that but really the Owls shouldn’t have been in a position to be able to score a late equaliser with Town having had enough chances to put the game to bed before then.

Wednesday also ought to have been down to ten men from four minutes into the match, referee Keith Stroud somehow failing to dismiss Owls skipper Glenn Loovens for a groin-high, studs-up challenge on David McGoldrick.

It wasn’t that he missed the foul, he indicated he was allowing Town, who still had the ball, to play on but when play stopped he somehow he felt a stiff talking-to with the Wednesday skipper sufficed.

That Loovens got away with it presumably rubbed salt into an already deep and painful wound which required surgery yesterday and will sideline the luckless McGoldrick for a number of weeks.

But aside from the loss of McGoldrick and the late equaliser there was much to be positive about, Town’s performance having been as bright as at any time this season. Wednesday really couldn’t have had too many complaints had they been beaten by a couple of clear goals.

The Blues’ four-man attack continues to score goals and even though they ultimately conceded twice the backline and midfield were otherwise as defensively resolute as they’ve been for a while against an expensively-recruited Owls frontline.

That the returning Huws seemed to hit the ground running following his long spell out with an Achilles injury was another plus to take from the evening.

Town, who had gone 25 games without drawing before this week’s back-to-back 2-2s, go into Saturday’s away match against fourth-placed Aston Villa ninth in the table, three points off the play-offs with their fixture in hand at Derby, who are currently seventh, on Tuesday.

Two tough matches but if they play as they did against Wednesday then there’s no reason that Town can’t take something from both matches, with any late, late goals hopefully going in their favour.