PAUL Gascoigne has taken a sideswipe at Burnley Football Club - despite raking in over £50,000 for just five weeks work!

The former England midfielder claims he did not enjoy the time he spent at Turf Moor towards the end of the 2001/02 season, when then manager Stan Ternent lured him from Everton to try to give the promotion chasing Clarets a timely boost.

Gascoigne brands the club unprofessional behind the scenes and describes the style of First Division football served up as "kick and rush".

He also said he did not receive money he was promised from the sale of replica shirts bearing his name - a claim strenuously denied by Burnley chairman Barry Kilby, who is adamant Burnley's midfield flop received every penny of his entitlement.

"Paul Gascoigne got every penny owed to him," Kilby said today. "Everything is well documented at the club if he wants to come and have a look and it is ridiculous to suggest we would con him out of a few pounds considering what he was paid.

"We cleared our account with Paul in full and never withheld any money - we are just not that kind of club."

In his newly published autobiography, Gascoigne reveals: "I didn't really enjoy my football at Burnley.

"I found the First Division very tough. The lads were fine and it wasn't them - it was me. Their sort of football wasn't my style. It was all kick and rush.

"Perhaps I'd lost a bit of the necessary pace for it, but whatever the case I wasn't comfortable with it.

"The deal with Stan Ternent, the manager, was that he would use me when necessary in vital games, bringing me on to change things if the team were getting nowhere.

"My basic wage was £5,000 per week - quite a drop from Everton's £12,000. But I was also on £5,000 a game appearance money and a big bonus if Burnley reached the play-offs and got into the Premiership."

"I was only there two months and made only six appearances. My last was a sub, coming on for the final ten minutes against Coventry.

"We had to get at least as good a result as Norwich to get in the play-offs as we went into the last game level on points and goal difference, though we had scored more goals.

"We won 1-0 but just missed out as Norwich beat Stockport 2-0. I had two free kicks, which went near, but we didn't make it and that was that."

Gascoigne's comments come after he earned in excess of £50,000 during his brief spell with Burnley, from mid-March 2002 until the final game of the season just over one month later.

During that time, the ex-England legend would have earned £25,000 in wages and a further £30,000 for making six appearances.

However, despite the fevered excitement following his initial signing, Burnley supporters never got anything approaching value for money from a fading legend.

In each of his first three appearances, Gascoigne was substituted - most notably at half time at Sheffield United in his second appearance following an embarrassing first half display lacking in fitness and effort.

In the final four games of the season, he was even relegated to bit part performances as a substitute - not even being called upon during the home game with Gillingham.

Gascoigne question's Ternent's motives for initially dropping him, saying: "There was one week when I had just got over an injury and wanted to rest, so Stan said 'fine. Go off and have a break'.

"I went off to Dubai for a few days and when I got back Stan said there was no need to train as I would be jet-lagged.

"Come Saturday, he didn't pick me. "What's the problem?" I said. "I'm fit."

"Ah, but you haven't trained!"

Finally Gascoigne, whose career has since hit rock-bottom following self-confessed battles with alcohol and drug addictions, insists he never received all the cash he was promised through commercial avenues - a claim today refuted by Kilby.

Gascoigne said: "I was also promised a share of the gate money if it went up, and a percentage of the sale of all my shirts with my name on them.

"Gates had shot up by around 6,000 when I played, so my presence did give them a boost and they sold hundreds of extra shirts.

"I remember standing in the chairman's office and signing 150 of them. Yet later, when I got the figures, they said only seventy had been sold. Funny that!"

'GAZZA - MY STORY' is published by Headline and on sale now.