Keith Burkinshaw

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Keith Burkinshaw
Personal information
Full name Harry Keith Burkinshaw
Date of birth (1935-06-23) 23 June 1935 (age 88)
Place of birth Higham, Barnsley, England
Position(s)
Defender
Youth career
Wolves
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1953 Denaby United
1953–1957 Liverpool 1 (0)
1957–1965 Workington 293 (9)
1965–1968 Scunthorpe United 108 (3)
Managerial career
1964–1965 Workington
1966–1967 Scunthorpe United (caretaker)
1976–1984 Tottenham Hotspur
1984–1986 Bahrain
1987–1988
Sporting Clube de Portugal
1988–1989 Gillingham
1991
Pahang
1993–1994 West Bromwich Albion
1997 Aberdeen (caretaker)
2005–2007 Watford (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Harry Keith Burkinshaw (born 23 June 1935) is an English former professional footballer and football manager. He is one of the most successful managers of Tottenham Hotspur, winning three major trophies for the club as manager there.

Playing career

Burkinshaw was born in Higham, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and began his footballing career with Midland League side Denaby United while working at Dodworth Colliery. He had a brief spell as an amateur with Wolverhampton Wanderers before joining Liverpool in November 1953. He spent a period in the British Army, serving alongside Duncan Edwards in Wales.[1]

Burkinshaw played just once for Liverpool, against Port Vale in April 1955, moving to Workington in December 1957 for a fee of £3,000. He was player-manager of Workington between November 1964 and March 1965, leaving to join Scunthorpe United in May 1965, having played 293 league games for Workington. He played a further 108 league games for Scunthorpe, and had a short spell as caretaker manager before retiring from playing in May 1968.

Coaching and managerial career

Shortly after announcing his retirement, Burkinshaw moved to

1981 FA Cup Final replay. Burkinshaw's Spurs, with Ardiles, Villa and Glenn Hoddle, won two successive FA Cups
.

In his final game in charge, Spurs won the

There Used to Be a Ballpark", said to be about the demolition of Ebbets Field, and Burkinshaw nodded in agreement.)[2][3]

In June 1984 he was appointed as coach to the

Division Four
.

Burkinshaw took charge of big-spending Malaysian state team

Pahang between late April and July 1991, leading them to the top of the league table before departing for Swindon Town.[6]

Burkinshaw was later Chief Scout for Glenn Hoddle and Ossie Ardiles at Swindon Town and in May 1992 became assistant to Ardiles at West Bromwich Albion. When Ardiles moved to manage Tottenham in the summer of 1993, Burkinshaw was promoted to Albion manager.[7] His career as Albion manager lasted just one season (1993–94) and he was sacked after they narrowly avoided relegation back to Division Two.[8]

He was later Director of Football at Aberdeen[9] before briefly taking charge as caretaker-manager at Pittodrie when Roy Aitken was sacked in 1997, he left when Alex Miller was appointed as the club's new manager.

In March 2005 Burkinshaw was appointed assistant manager at Watford.[10] He left this position in December 2007 due to a serious family illness,[10] having helped the club reach promotion to the Premier League in 2006.

Honours

As a manager

Tottenham Hotspur

Sporting Lisbon

See also

  • List of UEFA Cup winning managers

References

  1. ^ Jackson, Jamie (29 May 2020). "Workington raise funds reliving day they stunned Manchester United". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. ^ Jones, Ken (2 April 2003). "Ken Jones: Let's not forget: football is meant to be a game, not a business". The Independent.
  3. ^ Jones, Ken (9 August 1995). "In sport, history certainly gets distorted in the re-telling. Often what we have come to regard as fact turns out to be pure fiction". The Independent.
  4. ^ "Bahrain release Burkinshaw". New Straits Times. 16 April 1986. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  5. ^ "England is fired after seven years". The Herald. Glasgow. 4 February 1988. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Keith turns team of stars into title-contender". The Straits Times. 11 July 1991. p. 29.
  7. ^ Slot, Owen (20 June 1993). "Ardiles lured back to manage Tottenham". The Independent. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  8. ^ Shaw, Phil (18 October 1994). "Buckley in line after Burkinshaw sacking: West Brom dismiss manager". The Independent. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  9. ^ "Burkinshaw for Dons". The Independent. 31 May 1997. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Burkinshaw gives up Watford job". BBC Sport. 17 December 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

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