Background
Burton was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Burton was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
He played as a midfielder. He joined Birmingham City 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 Second Division on 25 March 1989, coming on as substitute for Gary Childs in a 2–0 defeat away to Leicester City.
He made two more appearances from the bench in the 1988-1989 season, but that was the end of his first-team career at Birmingham.
He joined Sheffield Wednesday briefly in 1991, but without playing for their first team, and then spent a year with Shrewsbury Town before dropping into non-league football.