keith burkinshaw - fact file

Born on 23rd June1935 in Higham, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

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One of the managers who enjoyed a successful time at White Hart Lane and took the club from adversity to European glory, then quit.

A player who served his time as a half back with Wath Wanderers, Denaby United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Liverpool and Scunthorpe United. Keith was player/manager for 10 months (and groundsman and every other job you can imagine) at Workington in 1964-65, before he moved into coaching with Newcastle United, where he spent seven years. His worth to the North-East club was constantly under-estimated and when Newcastle won the 1973 Anglo-Italian Cup, the manager and players were given a bonus by the board, but not Keith Burkinshaw, who was coach to the team. The players pooled their bonuses and gave him a share. When Joe Harvey was sacked as manager iat the end of 1974-75, Burkinshaw went with him.

Little known when he came to Tottenham as a coach under Terry Neill in the summer of 1975 and was appointed on the manager's dismissal, but suffered relegation in his first season. However, he guided Spurs to immediate promotion back to Division 1 and then built a side that featured Argentinian World Cup stars Ossie Ardiles and Ricardo Villa.

Became one of the most successful Spurs managers, with victories in the FA Cup in 1981 and 1982 before taking Spurs on to win the UEFA Cup against Anderlecht in 1984. It was perhaps typical of the man that he left the club at the height of his success, after the UEFA Cup win, pointedly mentioning that "there used to be a football club over there" in a reference to the club being floated on the Stock Market and money taking over.

Much like one of his predecessors and his mentor who was brought back to the club under Burkinshaw's management - Bill Nicholson - a bluff Yorkshireman, who told it like it was and stood no nonsense in his team, Keith earned the respect of the men under him by being straight with them.

After Spurs he went on to coach the Bahrain national team before going to manage in Portugal with Sporting Lisbon, where he won the Portuguese Super Cup with them in 1986-87.

Came back to England in 1988 and managed Gillingham, before moving on to take his expertise to Swindon Town, West Bromwich Albion and Aberdeen as Director of Football and as a scout at Stoke City.

Worked for a while at the League Manager's Association before taking up the assistant manager's role at Watford under Adrian Boothroyd.

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- Cup winners medal 19---

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What Keith Burkinshaw said about ...

... on his time as manager of Spurs ... 05.05.1996 (Newcastle United programme)

"At Tottenham, we went down to Division Two in my first season. And I told Sid Wale, the chairman at Spurs then, that he had to make a choice between being just another club, or one of the top six that were ruling the rest at that time. To the Tottenham board's credit, they took notice, gave me money to spend, I signed Ossie and Ricky, Steve Archibald, Garth Crooks and Alan Brazil, and Tottenham beca me the team that everyone wanted to see. There were huge crowds flocking to see us wherever we played. And we won the FA Cup twice."

... On Joe Harvey offering him a coach’s role at Newcastle United in 1968 ... 21.12.2008 (Newcastle United FC programme)

"I’d finished playing at Scunthorpe and was on the point of going to London for a coaching position in Africa when Joe rang. It didn’t take me long to say yes. Dave Smith was First Team coach then, but I was there for the Fairs Cup winning year and loved it. After three years as Reserve coach, Dave quit and Joe promoted me to First Team coach, which was a great step up for me."

... on leaving Newcastle United ... 21.12.2008 (Newcastle United FC programme)

"With Joe (Harvey) gone, I was pushed out rather than sacked. I had nothing until I was offered the position of coach to Terry Neill at Spurs. That was great – but then at the end of the year Terry decided he was going to Arsenal. So I applied for the job - and got it !

I had a great chairman at Spurs – Sidney Wale – who gave me the authority to make decisions that Joe Harvey at Newcastle never had. We got relegated in my first season at Spurs and, to be honest, I was expecting the worst. Tottenham was a massive club and the general opinio0n was that I should be fired."

... on signing Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles ... 21.12.2008 (Newcastle United FC programme)

"Those two players elevated Spurs. We went on to win the FA Cup twice with great players like Glenn Hoddle around them."

... on leaving Spurs ... 21.12.2008 (Newcastle United FC programme)

"Irving Scholar has taken over and we were in Austria for a UEFA Cup tie when he called me in to see him and his vice-chairman. They said they weren’t happy with the way the club was run. They said that they weren’t happy that I was running the things the way I always had and Irving Scholar said, ‘We should be doing what you do.

I told them that if they did that there was no place for me and I could never work that way, And even though I won the UEFA Cup, I left.

Spurs became a plc and that was when I said, ‘There used to be a football club there.’ It’s a quote I’ve often been remembered for but I meant it and the UEFA Cup Final, which we won, was my last game."

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