It was competed for annually by senior Glasgow clubs from 1887 until 1988.
He returned to the Glasgow club in the summer of 1923.
This was the first match the Glasgow club, which had been formed nine years earlier, had ever lost.
He made a total of 526 appearances for the Glasgow club.
Burns spent 9 years with the Glasgow club, and made over 300 appearances, making him on of the club's finest servants.
The bid, understood to be only around £300,000, has no chance of acceptance by the Glasgow club.
He spent 13 years with the Glasgow club, making 305 appearances in all competitions.
His performances for the Glasgow club were enough to secure a one-year contract.
A Glasgow club will win, we'll all get fatter and less fit.
After a lot of speculation he decided not to extend his contract with the Glasgow club.
