JACK Cork believes his move to Burnley has brought the best out of him after capping one of the 'maddest weeks' of his life with a goal against his former club.

Cork headed the Clarets in front against Swansea, rounding off a sweeping team move and setting Burnley on their way to a third straight Premier League win.

His second goal of the season came at the end of a fortnight that saw him earn a first England cap and the 28-year-old said he's discovered a newfound confidence after swapping South Wales for East Lancashire in the summer.

"I feel good, I feel fresh, I feel confident. Maybe it’s the move and the new environment, that can always help things," Cork said.

“It’s been one of those mad weeks you have in your life. You don’t get many of them so you have to enjoy them when they do come around.

“It’s been perfect for me. My family are proud and I’m just enjoying my football.”

Cork's header was followed up a crisp Ashley Barnes striker as Burnley secured a 2-0 win that saw them keep hold of seventh place in the league and extend their fine start to the season.

“It’s unbelievable," Cork said of an opening 12 games that have yielded 22 points.

"We keep saying we looked at the fixtures at the start, and it wasn’t easy to see where we could get the points away from home. We’ve been fantastic and we have to keep this form going until the end of the year and then see where we are.

“We don’t want to get carried away. I’ve been at clubs where we’ve got a bit carried away and then you get brought back down to earth.

"We’ve just got to stay grounded and try and aim for that 40-point mark. Anything after that, we can set new targets, but that will always be the aim.”

It was the former Chelsea youngster's second top flight goal for Burnley, 2,750 days after his first against Tottenham on the last day of the 2009/10 season.

Cork was on loan at Turf Moor at that stage of his career, before making a permanent £10million switch this summer.

His goal inflicted a sixth defeat in seven league matches on his former side, who remain 19th, but Cork has sympathy for them and under pressure boss Paul Clement, a man he knows well from the youth teams at Chelsea as well as working together at the Liberty Stadium last season.

Clement congratulated Cork on his Three Lions bow in the tunnel at Turf Moor after the game after Cork is hoping he can drag Swansea clear of the drop zone.

“I’ve known him for years, we’ve been close for a few years. He just wanted to know how I was and how the family were," Cork said of his chat with his former boss.

“I was with him for a few years at Chelsea, going back to when I was a kid at 15, 16. He’s been a really big part of my career and when I was coming through the youth team. I’ve always been close to him.

“It was one of those things when I ended up leaving, but he said he still looks out for me and told me ‘well done for England’. I said to him that I hoped they can get out of it and find the form I know they are capable of.”

Of Clement's decision to let him leave, Cork added: “I think it maybe wasn’t his decision. They bought me for £1.5million, the bid came in from Burnley, which was a lot more than they paid, and they were obviously trying to raise money to bring more midfield players in.

“He said to me, ‘look, you’ll probably play more games there, the club will probably accept the bid, what do you want to do?’.

“As soon as he said it, I thought’ ‘yeah, why not?’."