How the price of fuel powered brilliant Brewers

Jack Armer's (third from left of picture, wearing 3) goal at Plymouth was his third of the season for Burton [Shutterstock] The high cost of fuel was used by Burton Albion head coach Gary Bowyer to help power his side to victory at Plymouth Argyle. The first thing Bowyer did after Saturday's 1-0 victory at Home Park was to draw attention to the 159 Burton supporters who made the round trip of more than 470 miles to see the win that moved the east Staffordshire side up to seventh in the League One table. With average petrol prices in the United Kingdom at more than £1.72 per litre last week, Bowyer said the cost of living is something he wanted his players to be aware of for what was their longest trip of the season. "I have to thank the supporters, the 159, it's a magnificent effort with the cost of fuel, which seems to go up every day at the moment," he told BBC Radio Derby. "I don't know what the Prime Minister is doing, but that's another argument for another day - but to pay as much money as they have done to get down here, we said to the players that [the performance] is the minimum we can give them and I'm so delighted for them to be going home buzzing with a win." Plymouth miss chance to move top of League One Listen to the latest Burton Albion interviews on BBC Radio Derby Burton's first league win in four matches - a run that included draws with Mansfield Town and Cambridge United - prevented Plymouth going top of the third tier. Jack Armer pounced in the second half to score the winner, having kept his cool to finish after Argyle goalkeeper Murphy Cooper made a brilliant save to keep out Caylan Vickers' initial strike. While Bowyer admits his side would have been given little hope of upstaging Tom Cleverley's Pilgrims, who had won their previous four matches in all competitions, he demanded a performance that would rattle their hosts. "We talked about coming down here and living; not dying but living," he said. "I think everybody in the ground today was waiting for Plymouth to go top of the table, bar us and our supporters. "And the one regret we have coming away from here is that it was only 1-0." All the latest Burton Albion news