Keith Burkinshaw
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Harry Keith Burkinshaw (born 23 June 1935) is an English professional footballer and football manager.
He is one of Tottenham Hotspur's most popular coaches, winning 3 major trophies for the club as manager.
Playing career
Burkinshaw was born in Higham, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and began his football career with Denaby United while working at Dodworth Colliery. He spent a brief time as an amateur with Wolverham Wanderers before joining Liverpool in November 1953. In April 1955, he played for Liverpool against Port Vale in April 1955, before going to Workington in December 1957 for a £3,000. He was playing manager of Workington from November 1964 to March 1965, before moving to Scunthorpe United in May 1965. He had played 293 league games for Workington. He appeared in more than 108 league games for Scunthorpe and spent a short time as the caretaker boss before resigning from playing in May 1968.
Coaching and managerial career
Burkinshaw migrated to Zambia shortly after announcing his resignation, before returning to England as the head coach of Newcastle United. He was fired by Newcastle in May 1975 and joined Tottenham Hotspur as a coach the following month. After Terry Neill left Arsenal as boss in 1976, he became a manager. He was boss from 14 July 1976 to 31 May 1984, and he played in more major tournaments with the club than any other Spurs manager (that being Bill Nicholson). Spurs were relegated in Burkinshaw's first year as coach, but the Spurs returned straight back for promotion the following year. In 1978, Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa, two Argentine World Cup players, were signed. It was considered a brave move by the Spurs, but it was also one of the best goals ever seen at Wembley in 1981, when it was replayed. Spurs, combining Ardiles, Villa, and Glenn Hoddle, won two consecutive FA Cups.
Spurs won the UEFA Cup for the second time after a penalty shoot-out after the second leg at White Hart Lane in his last game as coach. They defeated an Anderlecht side that included future Spurs Sporting Director Frank Arnesen in doing so. "There used to be a football club over there," Burkinshaw remarked while leaving the club, but Burkinshaw ignored him.)
He was appointed as a coach to Bahrain's national team in June 1984. In July 1986, he left the role. Burkinshaw continued to work for Sporting Clube de Portugal until he was fired in February 1988. In October 1988, he returned to England as the team's manager, but the team was relegated to Division Four in April 1989.
Burkinshaw ran Pahang, the big-spending Malaysian state team, from late April to July 1991, bringing them to the top of the league table before heading to Swindon Town.
Burkinshaw was later Chief Scout for Glenn Hoddle and Ossie Ardiles in Swindon Town, and later became assistant to Ardiles at West Bromwich Albion in May 1992. Burkinshaw was promoted to Albion manager when Ardiles were promoted to manage Tottenham in the summer of 1993. However, Albion boss Jim Carter had only been on staff from 1993-94, and he was fired after they barely escaped relegation to Division Two.
He was later Director of Football at Aberdeen before being sacked in 1997 after Roy Aitken was named as Pittodrie's caretaker-manager.
Burkinshaw was appointed assistant manager at Watford in March 2005. He resigned from his position in December 2007 due to a serious family illness, and the club promoted to the Premier League in 2006.