BURNLEY new boy Danny Fox has hailed his goalscoring debut in Saturday’s 2-1 win over West Ham as the best day of his career – and warned the rest of the Premier League that he can get even better.

Fox left Celtic to join Burnley just before the transfer window closed and the left back curled home a fine free kick on Saturday to ultimately secure Brian Laws’ first win as boss, ending the Clarets’ 12-match winless run in the Premier League and lifting them out of the relegation zone.

It was the 23-year-old’s Premier League debut, having been released by Everton as a youngster, and he also provided the assist for David Nugent’s opener in a man of the match performance.

Fox had missed the last few weeks of his time at Celtic because of a groin problem and, having had to go off in the closing stages on Saturday with cramp, he is hopeful he can raise his performance levels even further when he is fully fit.

“That was obviously my best day in football,” Fox said of the victory against West Ham, which left Burnley 15th in the table.

“A lot of people said I wouldn’t play in the Premier League.

“If someone had said we’d won 2-1 I wouldn’t have cared who had scored, but for it to be my debut and to score the winner it’s a bit extra special. I couldn’t have dreamed of it.

"I practised free kicks for about an hour and a half on Friday with Tyrone Mears and hit the target once!

"I wasn’t going to shoot to be honest but Nuge (David Nugent) just came up to me at the last minute and said go for goal because it was just outside the box.

"I think Robert Green might have thought I was going to cross it and I thought it was going over until the last second, but it just dipped into the top corner.

"I know it’s only my first game and I need to become a bit more consistent, but hopefully I can answer a few critics along the way.

"A debut like that definitely makes me think that Burnley is the place for me, although I thought that anyway.

"And I think I can get better. If you look at Tyrone on the other side he’s non-stop all game and I want to be a bit like that myself."

Despite Burnley’s reputation at Turf Moor, no side in the top flight had actually gone longer without a home win before the Clarets beat West Ham – the last victory came against Hull in October.

"I wasn’t aware of that but you wouldn’t have thought that if you’d listened to the fans on Saturday," said Fox, who has already turned his focus to the trip to Fulham tomorrow night.

"They were the 12th man and hopefully they will give us their full backing for the rest of the season.

"We’re all just delighted to get the three points but we’ve got another big game on Tuesday away at Fulham, so we need to start picking up points away from home as well.

"We’ve got to play a lot of teams in the bottom half of the table and if we keep putting in performances like we have in the last couple of weeks, I don’t see any reason why we can’t pick up points."

Fox was possibly a victim of circumstances when he left Everton, who had just qualified for the Champions League and had less of a need to develop their own players at that time.

And the ex-Coventry and Walsall full-back is thankful that Laws, formerly in charge of Sheffield Wednesday, gave him the chance to play in the top flight now.

"I played against Sheffield Wednesday three or four times with Coventry and obviously he took a liking to me," said Fox.

"I didn’t know that until 10 or 12 days ago but I’m very grateful.

"I was an Everton fan but Everton finished above Liverpool that year, they finished fourth and there was no reason for them to keep young players on.

"I don’t know whether it was just the wrong year for me at Everton. You never will know.

"It’s every kid’s dream to play in the Premier League and I don’t just want to be here for three months, I want to be here for the rest of my career if possible."