Craig William Burley (born 24 September 1971) is a Scottish former professional
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
and sports television pundit and co-commentator for
ESPN.
As a player he was a
midfielder from 1989 until 2004, notably playing in the
Premier League for
Chelsea and
Derby County and in the
Scottish Premier League
The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the top level league competition for professional football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football' ...
for
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
. He also played for
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
and finished his career in
the Football League with
Preston North End
Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syste ...
and
Walsall. He earned 46 caps for
Scotland, scoring 3 goals.
Since retiring and working as a pundit amongst others he has worked for
BBC Sport, ESPN and
BT Sport.
Club career
Burley began his professional career with
Chelsea in 1989, however he didn't make his debut until April 1991 when he came on as a substitute for