Harry Keith Burkinshaw (born 23 June 1935) is an English former professional
footballer
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and football manager. He is one of the most successful managers of
Tottenham Hotspur
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, winning 3 major trophies for the club as manager there.
Playing career
Burkinshaw was born in
Higham,
Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
,
West Riding of Yorkshire
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, and began his footballing career with
Midland League
The Midland Football League is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midland Combination. The league has four divisions that sit at levels 9–12 of the football pyramid.
History
T ...
side
Denaby United while working at
Dodworth
Dodworth is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 5,742, increasing to 5,900 at the 2011 Census (9,777 for Dodworth Ward).
Histor ...
Colliery. He had a brief spell as an amateur with
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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before joining
Liverpool
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in November 1953. He played just once for Liverpool, against
Port Vale
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in April 1955, moving to
Workington
Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. The town was historically in Cumberland. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207.
Loca ...
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
Zambia
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where he coached for a few months before returning to England as coach of
Newcastle United
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. He was sacked by Newcastle in May 1975 and joined
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional association football, football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English footba ...
as coach the same month. He became manager after
Terry Neill
William John Terence Neill (8 May 1942 – 28 July 2022) was a Northern Irish football player and manager. A centre-back, he captained and later managed Arsenal, guiding the club to a European final in 1980 and three consecutive FA Cup final ...
left as manager for Arsenal in 1976. He was manager from 14 July 1976 to 31 May 1984, and he won more major competitions at the club than all but one other Spurs manager (that being
Bill Nicholson). Spurs were relegated in Burkinshaw's first year in charge but bounced straight back for promotion the following year. He signed two Argentine
World Cup
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stars,
Osvaldo Ardiles
Osvaldo César Ardiles (born 3 August 1952), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is an Argentine football manager, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as part of the Argentina national team. He now runs his ...
and
Ricardo Villa
Ricardo Julio Villa (; born 18 August 1952), more commonly known as Ricky Villa, is an Argentine football coach and former professional midfielder. He was famous for his time playing football from 1970 to 1989.
Career
Villa was born in Roque ...
, in 1978. It was considered a brave move but Ardiles would become one of the Spurs greats and Villa would score one of the greatest goals ever seen at
Wembley
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in the
1981 FA Cup Final replay. Burkinshaw's Spurs, with Ardiles, Villa and
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport.
He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea and ...
, won two successive
FA Cup
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s.
In his final game in charge, Spurs won the
UEFA Cup
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for a second time after a penalty shoot-out after the second leg at
White Hart Lane
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. In doing so, they beat an
Anderlecht
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team that included the future Spurs Sporting Director
Frank Arnesen
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. On leaving White Hart Lane for the last time, brought about by a disagreement with the board, he was said to have remarked: "There used to be a football club over there" (actually a misattribution – it was written by journalist Ken Jones who mentioned to Burkinshaw as he was leaving the club the Frank Sinatra's song "
There Used to Be a Ballpark", said to be about the demolition of
Ebbets Field
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, and Burkinshaw nodded in agreement.)
In June 1984 he was appointed as coach to the
Bahrain
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national side. He left that role in July 1986. Burkinshaw later managed
Sporting Clube de Portugal
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until he was sacked in February 1988. In October 1988 he returned to England as manager of
Gillingham, but resigned in April 1989 with the team on the verge of relegation to
Division Four
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.
Burkinshaw took charge of big-spending Malaysian state team
Pahang
Pahang (;Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , Pahang Hulu Malay: ''Paha'', Pahang Hilir Malay: ''Pahaeng'', Ulu Tembeling Malay: ''Pahaq)'' officially Pahang Darul Makmur with the Arabic honorific ''Darul Makmur'' (Jawi: , "The Abode of Tranquility") is a ...
between late April and July 1991, leading them to the top of the league table before departing for Swindon Town.
Burkinshaw was later Chief Scout for
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport.
He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea and ...
and Ossie Ardiles at
Swindon Town
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and in May 1992 became assistant to Ardiles at
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club () is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was formed in 1878 and has pla ...
. When Ardiles moved to manage Tottenham in the summer of 1993, Burkinshaw was promoted to Albion manager. However, his career as Albion manager lasted just one season (
1993–94) and he was sacked after they narrowly avoided relegation back to Division Two.
He was later Director of Football at
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
before briefly taking charge as caretaker-manager at Pittodrie when
Roy Aitken
Robert Sime "Roy" Aitken (born 24 November 1958) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He made over 480 league appearances for Celtic, and later played for Newcastle United, St Mirren and Aberdeen. Aitken also made 57 international ...
was sacked in 1997, he left when
Alex Miller
Alex Miller (born 4 July 1949) is a Scottish football manager and former player. As a player, he had a 15-year career with Rangers, winning several trophies. As a manager, he won the 1991–92 Scottish League Cup with Hibernian. He subsequen ...
was appointed as the club's new manager.
In March 2005 Burkinshaw was appointed assistant manager at
Watford
Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne.
Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, a ...
.
He left this position in December 2007 due to a serious family illness,
having helped the club reach promotion to the
Premier League
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in 2006.
Honours
As a manager
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional association football, football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English footba ...
*
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...
:
1980–81,
1981–82
*
UEFA Cup
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:
1983–84
*
FA Charity Shield
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:
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
(shared)
*
Football League Cup
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runner up:
1981-82
Sporting Lisbon
Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...
*
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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:
1987–88
See also
*
List of UEFA Cup winning managers
The UEFA Cup was a European association football competition contested from 1972 to 2009. In the 2009–10 season its name was changed to UEFA Europa League.
English manager Bill Nicholson led Tottenham Hotspur to victory in the inaugural final ...
References
External links
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UEFA Cup winning managers
1935 births
Living people
Footballers from Barnsley
English footballers
Liverpool F.C. players
Workington A.F.C. players
Newcastle United F.C. non-playing staff
English football managers
Workington A.F.C. managers
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. managers
Denaby United F.C. players
Sporting CP managers
Aberdeen F.C. managers
West Bromwich Albion F.C. managers
Gillingham F.C. managers
Watford F.C. non-playing staff
Scottish Premier League managers
Association football defenders
Aberdeen F.C. non-playing staff
Bahrain national football team managers
English expatriate football managers
English expatriate sportspeople in Bahrain
English expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia
Expatriate football managers in Bahrain
Expatriate football managers in Malaysia