IAN Brennan has a choice of two stunning strikes for the best goal of his career, but the deciding factor is the difference in grounds and occasions.

Former Burnley defender Brennan particularly enjoyed a goal he scored at Mansfield, but it doesn't quite compare in stature to his screamer at Anfield in September 1974 that earned Burnley a 1-0 win at Liverpool.

It's particularly apt to remember that strike this weekend as it is the last time the Clarets won at Anfield.

Brennan, who was a 21-year-old making his seventh First Division start then, said his Anfield strike appeared to be now in Burnley folklore given the number of Clarets who claim they were there that night.

"It was the goal I'm most easily recognisable with, everybody seems to still remember it and I think everybody from Burnley was there that night," he said.

"Wherever I go now they all say 'I was there'."

Brennan was teed up for his strike by Paul Fletcher and he revealed he still has a joke with his former teammate about it 43 years on.

"I always had an eye for goal because I'd played in different positions before becoming a recognised full-back, I'd been a striker," he said.

"I was always wanting to go for goal. Paul Fletcher won a free-kick and he was round and about the vicinity and I said to Fletch 'quick, pass it to me here'.

"He always takes the mickey out of me because I say it was from 38 yards out, and it was around that!  He passed it to me and I just whacked it. Ray Clemence was in goal and grateful for us it flew past him into the corner of the net."

Brennan is now a season-ticket holder at Turf Moor, but he won't be at Anfield on Sunday, preferring to try and get to grounds he hasn't been before this season.

But he hopes someone can follow in his footsteps and earn Burnley a long overdue win at Liverpool.

"They were one of the top teams in Europe then, they had an England goalkeeper in goal," he said. 

"It was a goal to remember. I always say I scored a better one at Mansfield, but nobody ever remembers that, so the Anfield one has to be with the occasion and the club."