WHEN Danny Fox scored on his Burnley debut he hoped it was a sign of things to come.

But not since that cracker against West Ham in February last year has the left back picked up a goal bonus.

He will have to get one over goalkeeping pal Keiren Westwood to end that drought tonight.

The two were team-mates at Coventry City for 18 months before Fox made his way to Turf Moor, via Celtic, and they have stayed friends ever since.

However, Fox hopes their relationship is tested to the limit tonight as Burnley bid to bounce back from Saturday’s shock home defeat to Millwall.

“It’s been over a year since I scored and Keiren is one of my best mates in football so I’d love to score past him,” said the 24-year-old, who is looking to rediscover the form that earned him honours at the Ricoh Arena, where he was voted players’ player of the year in 2009.

“It’s probably the best football I’ve played and I chipped in with a few goals while I was at Coventry as well.

“They were a great bunch of lads and the manager then, Chris Coleman, worked really well with me. I got on well will him and Steve Kean, who is manager of Blackburn at the minute.

“It was a great time, but I’d love to beat them convincingly tonight.”

Three points from the first of two games in hand would fire Burnley to within a point of the play-offs.

But, after three wins on the spin and back-to-back clean sheets before hosting Millwall at the weekend, Fox is frustrated that their wait for a top six place has been prolonged by losing to the Londoners and is looking to set the record straight at the first attempt.

“No-one really performed well and you’re going to have those days. But after the game we knew we’d let ourselves down and let the fans down especially and we need to put it right,” said the lively left back.

“With the high standards we’ve set in previous weeks it was frustrating not to get the result we needed.

“I think it maybe brought us back down to earth with a bang.

“We need to go into tonight positively and carry on playing the football we showed against Crystal Palace. We need to get back to that.

“Hull was a dogged 1-0 win, but sometimes you have to win ugly away from home.

“I don’t think we performed at all on Saturday, and I think that was the frustrating part.

“I don’t think it was fatigue or anything like that.

“There wasn’t one outstanding performer.

“Ross Wallace was probably our most creative player on Saturday. They stopped Chris Eagles from getting on the ball, and when he’s on the ball we seem to create a lot more chances.

“But the closer we get to the end of the season, I think teams are going to do that to him especially to try to stop us playing.”

He added: “Millwall came with a gameplan and we’ve got to hold our hands up, I think they deserved the victory.

“They looked a lot stronger than us. That’s what gets to us the most because we’ve been so organised of late, keeping two clean sheets on the bounce.

“It’s a bit frustrating to concede two goals from set pieces especially.

“But I think we’ve got enough in the squad to definitely go on another run.

“Hopefully it can start tonight.”