BURNLEY striker Steven Thompson has revealed how a pre-season prank has cost him a week’s wages.

Unable to curtail his sprint at Portland Timbers PGE Park in the final game of the Clarets’ tour of America, the former Rangers and Cardiff City front man gatecrashed a pitchside beer garden.

Thompson, who scored Burnley’s second goal in a 2-2 draw that night, hurdled a barrier before landing next to the table of a spectator, who was enjoying a pint while watching the game, until the 30-year-old appeared on the scene and helped himself to it.

“I kind of fell over the billboards at the side of the pitch and there was a cafe right on the side,” Thompson explained.

“I landed on this person’s table and I don’t know what happened, I just instinctively grabbed this guy’s pint and had a drink.

“It shows you how bad a game it was that it got the biggest cheer of the night.

"It was just a bit of fun and it went down well, it was a bit of light-hearted banter, and the guy was really decent about it. He was laughing.

“The manager did say I was fined a week’s wages though for being the first player he’s ever seen drinking during a match.

“I think that will be a first and last and one and only!”