IN terms of votes on strike action you would have to go some to match the overwhelming support for the PFA from its members.

With just 22 votes against and three spoiled papers (I wonder who they were?) it is fair to say that Gordon Taylor has the strongest possible mandate for strike action.

And rightly so. The PFA does do good work, it does help re-train kids who sacrifice all for the dream of a career in football, it does pay for operations for ex-players worn down by years of pushing their bodies to the limit.

But at the same time it might be time for the fans to be asking if they should start taking industrial action themselves.

Look at the facts. Television has been laying the golden egg for more than a decade and everyone else seems to have been getting fat by gorging on it.

First and foremost it is the players and staff that have benefited. Wages have reached incomprehensible levels with top stars making more in minutes than Joe Bloggs does in a year.

At last week's AGM at Turf Moor the club explained that wages are by far and away the biggest expenditure and if the club is to keep the likes of Glen Little things are only going to get more expensive.

The massive funds from television that have been pouring into the clubs' coffers have persuaded them to reward the players, managers and coaches but one key group in the game appears to have been omitted from the divvy out - the fans.

For example, great press releases I have not seen: "Following the announcement of a huge cash injection by Sky/ITV/BBC/Nationwide (delete as applicable) Football League and Premier League clubs have today announced an across the board cut in admission prices."

It hasn't happened, it won't happen and the opposite has been true, admission costs just keep rising.

Mind you, a fans strike is just as unlikely. Too many people need their regular fix of Clarets, it is like a drug.

Burnley has at least followed the lead of other clubs by cutting prices for next week's Grimsby game but the fact remains that prices would have to stay nearer £5 than they are now if the crowds are going to grow.

At the AGM the club was rightly praised for its low cost junior season ticket but the price of going to football is about more than entry.

Mind you according to some Clarets fans the crowd at Turf Moor has already taken industrial action, not so much a go slow as a go quiet policy.

I have had a couple of calls in the office asking me if something can be done about it and the answer is yes, it can!

Basically, the people who go to the matches have to dig into their memory vaults and remember what life used to be like on the terraces.

Of course it is different now. If you are sitting down the natural inclination is to lean back, fold your arms and enjoy the show.

But there is no doubt vocal backing can lift a team and support is needed more when the other side scores than when your team does.

So if Turf Moor can be transformed into a bear pit instead of a church, Stan Ternent's team could benefit.