Jackie Burns

John Charles Burns (27 November 1906 – 12 June 1986) was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers and Brentford as a left half. He represented England Amateurs at international level and holds the record for Football League appearances by an amateur.

Club career Burns joined Third Division South club Queens Park Rangers in 1927 and made 125 appearances and scored 34 goals in a four-year spell. He joined fellow Third Division South club and West London rivals Brentford in 1931 at the beginning of the most successful period of the club's history, which began with Harry Curtis' team winning the Third Division South title in the 1932–33 season. The Second Division title and the London Senior Cup followed in the 1934–35 season, He joined Athenian League club Leyton and spent two years with the club and reached the final of the 1937 FA Amateur Cup. He also appeared for Isthmian League club London Caledonians.

International career Burns won his first England Amateurs cap in 1930 and made 16 appearances for the side throughout the 1930s, 9 of them as captain. He scored three goals. Third Division South 16 5 0 0 16 5 1928–29 Third Division South 37 12 1 1 38 13 1929–30 Third Division South 31 2 4 2 35 4 1930–31 Third Division South 33 10 3 2 36 12

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1931–32 Sutton United Surrey Charity Shield: 1937–38