THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.

As Burnley surge towards the Premier League, another young striker who spent his early years in Non-League football has emerged as one for the future. Here are three "Non-League Burnley Boys" who have followed the path of Jamie Vardy.

As a teenager, Andre Gray was involved in a gang land culture in Wolverhampton. He has a 4 inch scar on his cheek to show for it and the memory of the death of a friend in jail, to remind him of what his life was like 6 years ago. As an 18 year old he eventually realised that he had to make a decision and change course.

Football was his saviour as he was brought up by his mother and grandfather and had to look after his younger half-brother. The money he was earning at non-league teams was barely enough to keep the "wolf from the door" but gradually his life changed.

Released by local club Wolves at 13 years old and then Shrewsbury, he found himself earning £200 a week at non-league Telford and then Hinckley United. In 2012 Luton Town picked him up, he scored 57 goals in 111 matches for them and played for England C, qualifying as a non-league player. He was then sold for £300,000 to Brentford. How his life changed! In August 2015 he was snapped up by Burnley for £6 million.

This was a windfall for him, for Luton who benefited from his transfer within the Football League and of course for Brentford who made a profit.

Like Charlie Austin, (Kintbury Rangers, Hungerford, Thatcham Town, Poole, Swindon, Burnley, QPR and Southampton) and Danny Ings (Dorchester, Bournemouth, Burnley, Liverpool),Gray has made his name from humble beginnings and mainly in Lancashire. So far his career statistics are played 260 games, scored 136.