A FOOTBALL fan has completed his charity challenge of running the 3,000 miles to every Premier League away game of his favourite club.

Burnley supporter Scott Cunliffe, 45, completed his task by jogging into the Clarets dressing room at Everton’s Goodison Park ground on Friday night.

Having raised £38,000, the United Nations aid worker is now contemplating his next challenge - running to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Mr Sutcliffe, from Worsthorne, said: “I am relieved I have done it but a bit sad it’s over.

“I have been running for about nine years partly as therapy for my own mental health problems caused by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from working in conflict and disaster zones in Asia.

“The total distance must have been around 3,090 miles with the longest run being 279 to Brighton which took me nine or ten days.

“I had run several marathons including London in 2010 and my best time was four hours and four minutes in Berlin.

“The whole experience has been really enjoyable and it was made better by the fact that Burnley stayed up.

“I did worry that my enjoyment of running would go during this challenge but it has got even greater.

“Now I’m thinking of the next RunAway challenge but it must be tough so I am looking at running to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.”

Mr Cunliffe originally hoped to raise £10,000 but is now heading for £38,000 - half will going Burnley FC in the Community, the Clarets’ official charity, and half divided between the equivalents at each of the other Premier League clubs. Most of the cash will go to groups working with mental health issues.

Alastair Campbell, a fellow Burnley fan and former spin doctor to Prime Minister Tony Blair who joined Mr Cunliffe for the last few miles of the leg to Arsenal, said: “It’s an extraordinary achievement. Scott is a lovely and fantastic guy."

Neil Hart, Burnley FC in the Community’s chief executive, said: “It’s difficult to comprehend the magnitude of what Scott has achieved with this challenge.”

Mr Cunliffe’s gruelling runs have attracted attention from all over the globe, with news outlets in Russia, Austria and Australia taking an interest, and he even appeared on the BBC’s Sport’s Personality of the Year in December.