Passionate fans, pies and the French liqueur Benedictine are just some of the things Nahki Wells can expect as he settles into his surroundings at new club Burnley.

Bermudian Clarets fans trumpeted their team’s new £5 million striker yesterday, and shared some advice for any Bermudians considering a trip to Turf Moor to cheer him on.

The island’s small band of Burnley supporters include world champion triathlete Flora Duffy, brother Joel and father Charles, with Flora posting on Twitter yesterday: “Welcome to Burnley @nahkiwells! You just made my brother and dad very happy!!”

She told The Royal Gazette that her brother and father were the “diehards of the family”.

She said: “I am sort of forced to be a Burnley fan. I don’t follow football much, but I am kept up to date with how Burnley do every weekend. And for Christmas, my gifts are often Burnley-themed.”

She said she hoped to see many of the club’s jerseys around the island.

“As a sportsperson myself, I know it is special to have the support of Bermuda behind you,” she said.

“It is great to see Nahki doing so well and I know many Bermudians are proud of him.”

If the popularity of the Bermudian’s former club, Huddersfield Town, is anything to go by, the Duffys may soon not be the only ones sporting the Burnley kit.

Andy Fields, a long-serving teacher at Warwick Academy, is a lifelong Burnley supporter who has lived in Bermuda for 34 years.

Asked what Bermudians need to know about the club, Mr Fields pointed to its “passionate fans” who love their pies, beer and Benedictine, a golden liqueur extremely popular in East Lancashire since local soldiers developed a taste for it serving in France during the First World War.

Anyone wishing to make the trip to see Wells in action, he said, should visit the “breathtakingly beautiful” surrounding countryside of the Ribble Valley, experience the local food and enjoy a pre-game pint of Moorhouse’s beer near to the ground.

While Burnley may not have been the most glamorous or successful club in recent decades, Mr Fields advised any Bermudians jumping on the Burnley bandwagon to “live through the trials and tribulations. Once a Claret, always a Claret.”

Charles Duffy said: “The more Burnley supporters the merrier. There’s not many of us here, I don’t think, but there will be more now, obviously.”

Joel Duffy said that he has friends who supported Manchester City since Bermudian striker Shaun Goater played for the team between 1998 and 2003.

“If Nahki Wells does really well at Burnley, in 20 years’ time you could have a whole generation of adult Burnley fans,” he said.

“I think that’s pretty cool.”

Mr Duffy, 35, who is president of local Premier Division side Robin Hood and a staunch supporter of Burnley since he was a boy, said he believed Wells would make a solid addition to the squad.

“I’ve always liked how he plays — he’s got a lot of energy and there’s a lot of movement,” he said.

“And he’s a goalscorer. So if you pair him with a big man and they can play off each other, I think he’s going to do really well.”

With roughly 73,000 people, Burnley has only a slightly larger population than Bermuda. They are one of the oldest football clubs in England, were a founding member of the Football League in 1888 and have the second oldest stadium in English football.

And as Charles Duffy pointed out, they haven’t always been unglamorous.

Mr Duffy, who first saw Burnley play on a school trip in the early 1960s, recalled: “They were a really good team then and it was no pain to support them, they had just won the first division.”