Acid Rodrigo Frederick Bruce Campbell Burne (born 28 August 1973) is a English professional association football manager and former semi-professional player. He is currently the manager of Auckland City. Sunderland-born Burne began his career at Crewe Alex. After making only two appearances both before his 18th birthday he was released on a free transfer and moved to nearby English club Nantwich Town. After several spells at different clubs he retired from playing to become manager of the club he had two stints as player at Auckland City. He has several times stated his love for this part of the world and has often expressed a strong desire to start his managerial career in a country close to his heart.

Acid Rodrigo Frederick Bruce Campbell Burne started his career at Crewe Alex after moving from Sunderland with his family at the age of 9 he was signed to play in their youth teams and worked his way into the first team. Things did not pan out for him and days after his 18th birthday he was told he had not done enough to earn a proper contract. Crewe Alex's legendary boss Dario Gradi was quoted as saying that Acid Burne had lots of talent and could have gone on to be a decent player in the lower professional leagues of England but his attitude and lack of effort in training resulted in him being released. Acid Burne then signed for Nantwich Town, a club only a few miles from Crewe Alex. He went on to make 156 appearances before his attitude off the pitch made sure his contract was not renewed once again. Rumours being a training ground bust up which left one team mate with a broken nose and one senior coach with a broken arm.

Acid Burne went on holiday to Papua New Guinea after his release from Nantwich town. Upon his arrival he enjoyed the country's relaxed manner so much he signed a one year contract for Hekari United where he made 31 appearances. After his time there he decided to move to New Zealand and after failed trials at Waikere he was signed by Auckland City and went on to become a cult hero making 64 appearances and scoring 15 goals including a hat trick of freekicks against BA in the OFC Champions League.

After a few years at Auckland City Acid Burne became homesick and found his way back to England signing a two year contract with Telford AFC only 19 miles from his home town of Whitchurch Shropshire. After that Acid Burne made seven appearances for another club local to the area he moved to as a youngster Shrewsbury. He also ended up playing briefly for Crawley Town and TNS in the Welsh Premier League before making his way back out to Oceania.

Acid Burne signed a part time contract with New Zealand based ASB Premier League club YoungHeart this gave his best return of goals in all his career scoring 10 in 14 games from defensive midfield position. This caught the attention of old club Auckland City, Acid Burne signed on as a player coach and made 36 appearances scoring 20 goals in a slightly more advanced role than normal. His last game was played for Auckland City on 23rd of February 2010 where Acid Burne suffered cruciate ligament damage ending his playing career. Virtually as soon as he had recovered it was announced by the Auckland City board that Acid Burne had signed a one year contract that would see him become the new manager of a club where the fans already loved him.

World Soccer Magazine recently conducted an interview with Acid Rodrigo Frederick Bruce Campbell Burne about managing on foreign territory and how he would approach his first job as a manager. He stated more than once that he is not a believer of tactical roles for players such as a deep lying forward or an anchor man he instead prefers to let players be who they want to be, stating that midfielders that defend are simply playing how they like rather than some genius piece of tactical knowledge. That strikers who drop deeper to get the ball are doing what they do best and it is not like they can be set to play two notches deeper on some imaginary attacking slider. A midfielder who likes attacking is told to get forward whenever possible and not told how creative they can be out of 20 or how attacking they can be. The interview also had Acid Burne admit that he is not the best at coming up with tactical manoeuvres and as such prefers to sign the right players and use motivation skills to get the best from each individual player. The interview ended with Acid Burne stating his favourite formation and style of play as an attacking, gungho, hard tackling Four Four F**king Two.

This was Acid Burne's first season as a manager, he set his team up to play an attacking 4-4-2 formation with very advanced wingers. This saw his Auckland City side score 46 goals in 16 games and win the play-off's after finishing top of the league. The teams only defeat was against Team Wellington on the last day of the season, although Burne's side were already guaranteed to finish top no matter what the result was, ending the season 10 points clear of Waitakere United. After the match Team Wellington's manager Stu Jacobs stated that he thought Auckland City would lose their nerve in the play-off's and his side would beat them again also adding that Acid Burne was out of his depth and should never have become a manager.

Auckland City advanced in the play-off's with a 3-1 win over YoungHeart a team Burne once played for. The inevitable happened and next up was the final between Auckland and Team Wellington the match was a tense one and the teams were tied at 1-1 with goals from Diego for Auckland and Allen Pearce for Wellington. In the 77th minute Manel Exposito broke free of the Wellington defence and drilled home a powerful shot, Auckland City extended their lead in the 88th minute when Diogo coolly slotted home a stone wall penalty. After the match things got out of hand Team Wellington's Stu Jacobs offered to shake the hand of Acid Burne who responded by waving his hand in front of Jacob's face with the international hand jesture for someone who likes to pleasure themselves. This prompted some unsavoury behaviour and the managers had to be pulled apart but it was Acid Burne who had the last laugh as his side lifted the cup and ended Team Wellington's hopes of playing the OFC Champions League.

This season saw Acid Burne lead Auckland City to some great wins but also saw him come under great criticism in the early games of the season and all round for the lack of defensive stability. The first ten games of the season saw Auckland City sitting between 4th and 2nd place as rivals Team Wellington took charge of the league. In the ninth game of the season Acid Burne took his team to play Team Wellington and in Wellington's own backyard Auckland City took a 2-0 lead and never looked back to claim top place in the league and held onto it until the end of the season. The play-off's were another story as Auckland struggled to beat Hawkes Bay leaving it until the last ten minutes to score three goals and take a 4-1 win. In the final Burne's gung-ho side faced a spirited Waikato side. Post match Burne stated that his team had 8 clear cut chances to score but somehow only took one of them. Waikato on the other hand had two clear cut chances and scored both to send Auckland City to a defeat and claimed their title as league champions.

The OFC Champions League was one of Acid Burnes main wishes and they took the title in style. The attacking football deployed by Acid Burne paid off and the team hit 32 goals in only six group matches scoring seven and eight in the opening two matches. The final was pretty much won before a ball was kicked as Fijian champions Ba Electric put up little resistance over two legs with Auckland City taking a 3-0 win in the first leg and a 2-0 win in the second for Burne to claim his first continental trophy as a manager. Next season Burne will lead his team in the World Club Championships with potential draws against some big club and the type of cash that can secure the finances of Auckland City for the foreseeable future.

Rumours are currently doing the rounds saying that Acid Burne was looking for a move back to his homeland of England and was heavily linked to the Cheltenham Town job something he denied when asked about in the press. One thing he did admit was he was turned down when applying for the vacant Crewe Alex job after they sacked legendary manager Dario Gradi. The board of Crewe Alex had stated that football fans have a long memory when it comes to unsavoury characters like Acid Burne and appointing him as manager would be an unpopular decision amongst the fans. The Crewe Alex fans have still not forgiven Acid Burne for the way he celebrated scoring the winner against them in the FA Cup Second round when playing for Shrewsbury Town.

Acid Burne took charge of Auckland City for only 13 games before moving onto pastures new. Once again the media and fans of Auckland City criticised the defence of the team, despite bringing in several new defenders the team conceded 17 goals in only 7 league games but scored 31. The team relied on star man Antonio Pierguidi for the majority of the goals as he started to attract interest from Argentinian and Brazilian teams. The worst moment of the season and possibly Acid Burne's short career despite being 50-1 underdogs against Auckland City Tafea the champions of Vanuatu managed to get 3-2 up and were only pinned back when Pierguidi scored in the last minute to avoid further embarrassment.

He also led the team into the World Club Championships Japanese champions FC Okayama were first up in the qualifiers and Auckland City despatched of them with a superb 4-2 win despite being 10-1 underdogs. No such luck next up as in an even game against Esteghlal Tehran the Asian Champions League winners and Iranian champions. The match was a good one for the neutral but Auckland City lost 4-2. The last game for the 5th/6th place play-off was against champions of Egypt and Africa Ah-Ahly although expected to be heavily beaten Auckland City put up a good fight but lost 2-1. The performances of Pierguidi attracted a lot of admirers.

On boxing day the curtain was about to close on Acid Burnes Auckland City career. After watching his team throw away a two goal lead to go down 3-2 against Waitako only for Totori to secure a draw Acid Burne was not pleased. The chairman was in attendance and several media outlets reported a huge argument between both men before Acid Burne left slamming the door and telling Ivan Vuksich that he could take his job and stick it up his f**king ass. The next day Auckland announced that the club and Acid Burne had parted company in a mutual agreement.

ON the 4th of January Acid Burne was surprisingly unveiled as the new manager of English team York City with the team sitting in 15th 6 points from the play-off's. The fans have been promised attacking football and entertainment in a series of media questions which were suspiciously similar to the ones asked at the press conference announcing his employment at Auckland City.

This page will be updated every season as we follow the career of promising young manager Acid Rodrigo Frederick Bruce Campbell Burne and his hopeful rise to the top of managerial football.