IT has been a week to forget for the goalkeeper's union with high profile mistakes by Peter Enckelman and Kelvin Davis.

But as the Clarets stopper Marlon Beresford admitted: "I am afraid it comes with the job.

"If we make a bad mistake it is almost certain that it will end up with a goal for the opposition. And the really bad mistakes just keep getting shown again and again, like they have been this week.

"To be honest I had turned away from the television during the Villa game and it took me a while to catch what was going on.

"It didn't dawn on me straight off to think about whether he had touched but then I was trying to see if he had. It was amazing to see the ball just roll into the net.

"Then to have the incident with Kelvin the next night was incredible. The lad hit the back pass really firmly at him and he just missed it. I know that both of them are going to end up on one video compilation or another."

There is not a keeper alive who has not had a personal story to tell about a nightmare incident that has left him with egg on his face.

Beresford is no exception and he confessed: "I have ben told that I am on a video by Nick Hancock making a howler at York City but I have not seen it."

The problem for Beresford and his fellow keepers is that everyone gets a lot more pleasure of seeing them looking like sinners rather than saviours.

Take Tuesday night. Most people will have lost count of the number of times the error by Davis has been seen.

But apart from a couple of times, Beresford's save to keep out Christophe Kinet's free-kick has hardly been seen.

Clarets boss Stan Ternent hailed the save as "world class" as he flung himself to his right and touched the stinging drive onto the crossbar.

With a smile, Beresford denied watching it so often since that the video has worn out but the fact is great saves do not make such good television great gaffes.

He will be hoping to remain a gaffe-free goalie for the next couple of games before Ternent has to decide if he can afford to keep him on. If the unbeaten run continues, he will certainly hope so.