{"id":438234,"date":"2011-06-08T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/08\/free-agent-burke-joins-birmingham\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:55:15","slug":"free-agent-burke-joins-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/free-agent-burke-joins-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent Burke joins Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1.5\">\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td readability=\"4.5\">\n<div readability=\"8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53317000\/jpg\/_53317430_113448040.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Chris Burke\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Burke has won two international caps for Scotland, both coming in 2006<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Birmingham City have completed the signing of Scotland international Chris Burke on a free transfer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old becomes Birmingham&#8217;s first new addition since the club were relegated from the Premier League on the final day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Burke left Cardiff in May, following the Bluebirds&#8217; failure to win promotion to the top flight via the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The winger played under Blues boss Alex McLeish at Rangers, where he broke into the first team as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Burke made more than 100 appearances for the SPL club before  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/teams\/c\/cardiff_city\/7816816.stm\">moving to Cardiff in January 2009.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He scored five goals in 50 games last season as Cardiff finished fourth in the Championship and  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_div_1\/13343340.stm\">were beaten by Reading<\/a>  in their play-off semi-final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"3.71105527638\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.bbc.co.uk\/o.gif?~RS~s~RS~Sport~RS~t~RS~_SportRegChk~RS~i~RS~(none)~RS~a~RS~Domestic~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~50~RS~\"%20height=\"1\"%20width=\"2\"%20alt=\"\"%20\/%3E%3C\/p%3E%3C!--%20E%20BO%20--%3E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C\/div%3E%3Cimg%20src=\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>FROM OTHER SPORT SITES<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?z4821667595&#038;z=1250248740\">TEAMtalk<\/a>\u00a0<span>Morison set to shine &#8211; Dublin\u00a0&#8211;\u00a036 mins ago<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?z4821159883&#038;z=1250248784\">Glasgow Sunday Mail<\/a>\u00a0<span>SPL: Rangers manager Ally McCoist insists Ibrox defender Steven Whittaker is not for sale\u00a0&#8211;\u00a02 hrs ago<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/b\/birmingham_city\/9508372.stm\" title=\"Free agent Burke joins Birmingham\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free agent Burke joins Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Chris Burke has won two international caps for Scotland, both coming in 2006 Birmingham City have completed the signing of Scotland international Chris Burke on a free transfer. The 27-year-old becomes Birmingham&#8217;s first new addition since the club were relegated from the Premier League on the final day of the season. Burke left Cardiff in May, following the Bluebirds&#8217; failure to win promotion to the top flight via the play-offs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free agent Burke joins Birmingham - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/free-agent-burke-joins-birmingham\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Free agent Burke joins Birmingham - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Chris Burke has won two international caps for Scotland, both coming in 2006 Birmingham City have completed the signing of Scotland international Chris Burke on a free transfer. 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