INFORMATION: Highly Classified.

AGENT: Kurt Nogan.

YOUR MISSION: If you choose to accept it-is to terminate the threat of Second Division Wycombe Wanderers.

DOSSIER: Age 26. Previous experience at Luton and Brighton. Your awesome form makes you one of the most feared striking talents in the Nationwide Football League.

An instinctive nose for goals. You had five league and cup strikes to your name before this mission. A productive and impressive record.

CHIEF THREAT: Your every step will be monitored by number four Paul McCarthy. He will do everything in his power to subdue your mission. You will have to undermine him.

THE OPPOSITION: Agent Alan Smith has his staff well-drilled. They can be dour but dangerous. Handle with care! Two league defeats this season. They successfully despatched First Division Reading in the Coca-Cola Cup.

RECORD: The clubs have met only twice before. Wycombe drew 1-1 at Turf Moor a year ago and won 4-1 at Adams Park. Wycombe are the ONLY current league side Burnley have not yet beaten.

Your mission is to terminate that statistic-with extreme prejudice.

You have performed with great credit on difficult assignments behind enemy lines at Luton, Mansfield and Millwall.

WARNING: Your task will be a demanding and difficult one. Because Burnley's defence will self-destruct inside 16 seconds!

That's all it took for Wycombe to forge ahead with the weekend's quickest goal of the Nationwide League programme.

And that left Kurt Nogan to lead Burnley from a potential Mission: Impossible to another Turf Moor victory roll.

The Clarets' fans were still clambering into their seats when Wycombe hit Burnley straight from the kick-off to silence another healthy home crowd.

Central defender Mark Winstanley unluckily lost his footing, and the ball was instantly fed wide to the grateful David Farrell. The winger's cross was whipped in across the face of an unguarded goal and the gate was left wide open for Miquel De Souza to hand Wycombe a shock lead.

But what price Nogan when the going gets rough for Burnley?

He carried Burnley's goal-scoring burden alone last season and this most lethal of strikers is already setting the Second Division alight with his scoring exploits.

"We said before the season started that we knew what we had with Kurt Nogan," said manager Adrian Heath.

"He scores good goals doesn't he. In terms of his general play he was probably quieter than of late.

"Maybe he was due one of those games. But he has contributed with two goals again. That's tremendous. You can't argue with his goal-scoring return can you.

"He's always on the spot isn't he. He's got a real striker's instinct."

That instinct was on full view as Nogan's shooting boots hit Wycombe twice inside the space of eleven frantic minutes.

And full credit to Burnley for the way they stuck at their task after that early shock to the system.

The defence kept their cool and the midfield man worked overtime to supply Nogan and Paul Barnes. They hit Wycombe with a furious counter-attack and you somehow sensed it was going to be difficult for the visitors to hang on to that early advantage.

Indeed, the Clarets left off from the midweek Lancashire derby success, pinning Wycombe in their own half.

Though, Wycombe did have their moments after half-time, when De Souza and Paul McCarthy threatened the Burnley goal.

But Burnley's football and approach work was again crisp and productive, and it wasn't long before the Wycombe defence was under siege.

A David Eyres and Barnes combination nearly paved the way for Burnley before Gary Parkinson went close.

But that pressure paid off when Terry Evans was forced into evasive action, hacking Eyres cross out for a corner.

Damian Matthew swung over the advantage and Nogan, perfectly placed, headed home inside the post.

It was just the fillip the Clarets needed and once again underlined Nogan's great value to the side. Three minutes later Nogan turned provider.

A splendid through ball beat the Wycombe defence and striking partner Barnes was so unlucky to see his snap shot crash against the sidenetting.

But Burnley sealed the points before half-time as Nogan took full advantage of a Wycombe defensive lapse.

The impressive Damian Matthew created the danger with a header into the Wycombe danger area.

Goalkeeper Brian Parkin and giant defender Terry Evans got in a terrible tangle and Nogan stabbed the ball home from six yards.

Mission complete and goal number seven for the man in claret and blue who just can't stop scoring.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.