HIS goals spelt the end for Steve Kean, then Henning Berg, and today he will be hoping to inflict defeat on former Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce. Lukas Jutkiewicz is pretty well known in Lancashire by now, even if his nationality remains a confusion to some.

It was two seasons ago when Jutkiewicz played a rather significant role in a nightmare season for Burnley's biggest rivals Blackburn.

First he scored twice in a 2-1 win for Middlesbrough at Ewood Park that proved to be Kean's final game as boss.

Three months later, he netted the only goal in the reverse fixture at the Riverside Stadium, and Berg was sacked a day later.

With nine clubs and 259 senior appearances under his belt, 25-year-old Jutkiewicz has already made his name in most regions of the UK.

But even now the odd errant report will still describe him as 'Polish striker Lukas Jutkiewicz'. It is a confusion he is well used to.

"I do get that," admits the Southampton-born striker, who shares Polish heritage with Burnley co-chairman John Banaszkiewicz but has never actually visited Poland.

"When people meet me, they seem to speak a little bit slower to me, then they realise I'm as English as they come!

"I'm getting less and less of that confusion now though."

It was after World War Two that Jutkiewicz's grandfather moved to England, when large chunks of the east of Poland were handed over to the Soviet Union.

That included the city of Wilno, which would become the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

"My family are originally from Vilnius," he said.

"There's Polish heritage there, my grandad was a Polish citizen, but the borders have changed throughout history and it's now Lithuania.

"I've not been over there or had a huge amount of contact on that side of the family, but I'd be interested in doing at some point."

While fellow English-born Burnley strikers Ashley Barnes and Sam Vokes have represented Austria and Wales respectively, Jutkiewicz may technically qualify for a few different international teams - his grandmother comes from Ireland.

Perhaps goals in the Premier League would catch the eye of one or two international managers, but playing for Poland or any other country is not something he is focusing on too much right now though.

"I haven't overly thought about it," he says.

"There's not really been any contact from anyone so until that happens it sort of a moot point really.

"Possibly I might qualify for Lithuania as well, but I'm not really too sure."

Jutkiewicz is one of three south coast boys in the Burnley strike force - with the former Southampton youth team forward born within 10 miles of both Vokes and Danny Ings.

The latter is expected to return from injury to partner Jutkiewicz up front at home to Allardyce's West Ham United this afternoon, when the Clarets again seek their first win of the campaign.

Jutkiewicz has had the most shots of any Premier League player yet to score this season - a total of 18 - and is keen to break that goal duck after netting six times in pre-season.

"As a striker you know that you’re not going to score if you don’t shoot, so it’s important to try and get some shots off," he said.

"The goalkeepers are better, there's naturally there’s a better standard in every aspect of the game. That’s why we want to be up here testing ourselves against the very best.

"We’re working on every aspect to try to improve, and hopefully the goal is something that will come.

"It’s something that all strikers think about and I’m no different.

"You get one and then hopefully the others will follow.

"They might come in patches, I don't know. It's something I'm working on."

The Clarets have had three goalless draws this season - perhaps an unfamiliar scoreline for a player who was once man of the match in a 6-6 draw between his club Motherwell and Hibernian in the SPL.

But Burnley's 655-minute goal drought did come to an end in the 2-2 draw at Leicester City a fortnight ago, when Ross Wallace netted an injury time equaliser.

Jutkiewicz was happy that the result and the return to scoring ways silenced some of the Clarets' critics.

"We’re going to have that all season, so it’s up to us to try and ignore what’s said outside the club and focus on what we’re trying to achieve," he said.

"After the Leicester game you’re looking forward to having another game, the way that one finished.

"We ended the game quite strongly and it was nice to get the equaliser. It was a shame not to have another game the next week to build a bit of momentum.

"Within the club we try not to listen to what people are saying from outside, because we know not a lot is going to be positive.

"But it's important what we do, and it was important for the dressing room to bounce back from what was a poor performance for us (at West Brom) - to have the resilience to twice come from behind to get something away from home.

"It say a lot about the strength of character within the group.

"It will be nice to get back on our home ground and hopefully pick up three points.

"You can't look too far in the future. You have to look at the next game and hopefully we can get our first win."