Lineker’s tweet didn’t knock Burke’s socks off

CHRIS Burke scrolled down on his phone, paused for a second, then continued to swipe downward. If the veteran winger permitted himself a chuckle in response to a tweet from Gary Lineker promising to do Match of the Day wearing Killie socks and little else in the event that the Rugby Park ‘do a Leicester City’ and win the Ladbrokes Premiership title this season then it lasted only a matter of seconds. “I saw it quickly and just scrolled and looked at something else,” said Burke. “There’s that

much you can scroll through, isn’t there! No, it’s nice that

Gary Lineker is tweeting about us. But listen people can talk about us as much as they want. We’re just going to take things game by game….”

The 35-year-old knows only too well the imperative to keep your feet on the ground when attempting to put a title charge together. It wasn’t until he and his Ibrox team-mates were stood around waiting in front of the away support at Easter Road that news came through of the clinching second Scott McDonald goal against Celtic at Motherwell to confirm his only Scottish top-flight title to date, on the day in May 2005 which became known as ‘Helicopter Sunday’.

“The time I won the league with Rangers was fantastic,” said Burke. “It became known as Helicopter Sunday, didn’t it? So you never know in football when things are going to go your way.

“At this moment in time things are going our way at Kilmarnock. But it’s a long, long season.”