Burnley have continued their Jekyll and Hyde form with another impressive home win, this time against Birmingham City.

While Owen Coyle’s men falter away their home form is amongst the best in the league and on today’s evidence it is no surprise.

The home side controlled proceedings from start to finish, and were only denied in the first half by a series of brave blocks from the visiting rear-guard.

Pre-match talk centred on where Andre Bikey would be deployed in light of Steven Caldwell’s recall to the side and how he would fit into the side, and we soon had our answers.

Bikey, the fans’ man of the match, played a busy role throughout and was a rock in the centre of midfield before wrapping up the win with a fine goal.

Steven Fletcher opened the scoring through a swift counter attack from a Birmingham free-kick.

While James McFadden appealed for handball the home side broke away with the wind in their sails through Tyrone Mears.

The right back slid the ball through to the Scot who drove at the defence before firing off a shot that wrong-footed Joe Hart and somehow ended up in the roof of the net.

It was Fletcher’s first Premier League and he could have had his second minutes later when he took down an exquisite Robbie Blake ball on his chest and slotted past Hart, but as the home crowd celebrated what they thought was a second the ball came back off the post and was thumped away.

And only two minutes later Fletcher was in again, but this time Hart was equal to his strike and saved well down to his right.

But it didn’t take Burnley long to go two ahead when nine minutes later Andre ‘Golden Boots’ Bikey took centre stage. The make-shift central midfielder won the ball from two Birmingham midfielders before charging at the visiting defence.

The Cameroon International played a fine one-two with Blake that left him bursting through on goal to slot home into the bottom left corner, before rounding off his stunning goal with a spectacular summersault celebration.

Birmingham pulled one back with the last kick of the game from a superb Sebastian Larsson free-kick but it was far too little far too late for the visitors.

In a quiet first half in which Burnley dominated the chances it was the visitors who could have gone in a goal to the good after Lee Bowyer missed an open goal from four yards after a moment of rare confusion in the Clarets’ defence.

Burnley dictated the early exchanges of the second half and the two goals really sucked the life out of Birmingham who offered very little on the day bar their late goal.

The two goal lead could and perhaps should have been increased late on when first Tyrone Mears came close with a free-kick that was saved brilliantly by Hart and then an unmarked Bikey headed over from the resulting corner.

Before the last-gasp free-kick Birmingham’s only real threat came from the high ball into the box, but due to having three centre backs by trade on the field in Steven Caldwell, Clarke Carlisle and Bikey Burnley were more than capable of repelling any danger.

The win continues the Clarets’ excellent home form and is another huge step towards sealing Premier League survival even at this early stage of the campaign, while visiting manager Alex McLeish will be less than happy with his blunt charges and their failure to seriously threaten the home side.