Michael James Burton (born 5 November 1969) is an English former professional

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who played in

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for

Birmingham City Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...

and Shrewsbury Town. He played as a

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. Burton was born in

Tamworth, Staffordshire Tamworth (, ) is a market town and borough in Staffordshire, England, north-east of Birmingham. The town borders North Warwickshire to the east and north, Lichfield to the north, south-west and west. The town takes its name from the River T ...

. He joined

as a YTS trainee in 1986, and turned professional the following year. He made his first-team debut as a substitute in the League Cup in September 1988, and his first appearance in the

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on 25 March 1989, coming on as substitute for

Gary Childs Gary Paul Colin Childs (born 19 April 1964) is an English former professional footballer and coach who is the sports development manager at Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education. Playing as a midfielder, he made 422 appearances and sc ...

in a 2–0 defeat away to Leicester City. He made two more appearances from the bench in the 1988–89 season,Matthews, p. 224. but that was the end of his first-team career at Birmingham. He joined

Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The team competes in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Formed in 1867 as an offshoot of ...

briefly in 1991, but without playing for their first team, and then spent a year with Shrewsbury Town before dropping into

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* 1969 births Living people Footballers from Tamworth, Staffordshire English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Birmingham City F.C. players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players Shrewsbury Town F.C. players Moor Green F.C. players Milton Keynes Borough F.C. players Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. players Solihull Borough F.C. players Redditch United F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub