DAVID Johnson looks set to make his Burnley debut tomorrow evening and he will be coming face to face with a former friend and foe, writes MATT HORN.

Johnson is in line to be thrown straight into the heat of a Red Rose and promotion battle against Preston North End and the Lilywhites''s defender Chris Lucketti admitted: "We go back a long way from our days together at Bury. I have also played against him a few times since he left and I seem to remember I have done okay."

Johnson moved to Burnley on a month's loan from Nottingham Forest this week and Lucketti is ready to take him on if he is given a starting role.

"He is not the biggest lad but he is very quick," he said. "He has a very low centre of gravity and is dangerous. We have not really kept in touch but have played on the opposite side a few times."

Of course it is not only Johnson that Lucketti will be meeting up with as he looks forward to renewing acquaintances with a number of other former Gigg Lane team mates.

"To be honest I could probably go into the home dressing room and know about half the team," he said. "I have a lot of good memories and there are some great lads.

"Then of course there is the manager who supplied all the great times. It was a massive relief to hear that the club has been saved for the moment because it is not nice to see any club struggle, especially not one you have had good times at.

"All the Preston lads got behind the buy-a-seat campaign and I think that showed that when there is trouble the football world pulls together."

And it is pulling together that Lucketti is promising his team mates will do tomorrow in the light of the departure of manager David Moyes.

"It has got to be business as usual," he said. "It is sad to see the manager leave because he did fantastically for the club and he did fantastically for the players that are here.

" But we get paid by Preston and we still have a great chance to get into the play-offs."

Lucketti knows how important it is for North End to get a win tomorrow and that is why he is ready to stop his old mate from having a dream debut.