Keith Matthew Spurgeon (29 August 1932
– December 1984) was an English
football player and manager.
Playing career
Spurgeon played for
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The team has playe ...
,
Margate
Margate is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. The town is estimated to be 1.5 miles long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook.
The town has been a significan ...
,
Leytonstone
Leytonstone () is an area in east London, England, north-east of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, a local authority district of Greater London. It adjoins Wanstead to the north-east, Forest Gate to the south-east, ...
,
Folkestone Town,
Herne Bay
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and Snowdown Colliery Welfare.
In October 1960 he was hired as a coach by
Clapton, where he also had been used as a player to cover for injuries, on at least one occasion.
Coaching career
Spurgeon was manager of Dutch clubs
Ajax
Ajax may refer to:
Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Gree ...
from 1961 to 1962,
Blauw-Wit Amsterdam
FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam ( en, Blue-White) was a Dutch football club from Amsterdam. The name referred to the colours of their uniform, blue and white.
History
Founded on 10 May 1902 as a local club in the Kinkerbuurt area of Amsterdam, from 1928 i ...
between 1962 and 1963, and again between 1964 and 1965. He also managed
Heracles Almelo from 1963 to 1964, and
AGOVV
AGOVV () is a Dutch association football club based in Apeldoorn. It was established on 25 February 1913. The club played in professional football from 1954 to 1971 and from 2003 to 2013. AGOVV's male first squad plays in 2022–23 in the Tweede ...
and he later coached the
Libyan national side, the
Dallas Tornado of the
North American Soccer League, Belgian side
K.V. Mechelen Swedish side
AIK
AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...
, Cypriot side
APOEL
APOEL FC ( el, ΑΠΟΕΛ; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', literally "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") ...
, and
Landskrona
Landskrona (old da, Landskrone) is a town in Scania, Sweden. Located on the shores of the Öresund, it occupies a natural port, which has lent the town at first military and subsequent commercial significance. Ferries operate from Landskrona t ...
, also of Sweden.
Personal life
Keith was born in
Borehamwood
Borehamwood (, historically also Boreham Wood) is a town in southern Hertfordshire, England, from Charing Cross. Borehamwood has a population of 31,074, and is within the London commuter belt. The town's film and TV studios are commonly know ...
, the son of Phyllis Edith Brighton and Albert Edward Spurgeon. He was married to Sylvia May Goldsmith.
He died in Sweden in 1984, from motor neurone disease.
His son became a golfer.
References
External links
Profile
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1932 births
1984 deaths
English footballers
English football managers
English expatriate football managers
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Margate F.C. players
Leytonstone F.C. players
Folkestone F.C. players
Herne Bay F.C. players
Snowdown Colliery Welfare F.C. players
Clapton F.C. players
AFC Ajax managers
Blauw-Wit Amsterdam managers
Heracles Almelo managers
AGOVV managers
Libya national football team managers
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) coaches
K.V. Mechelen managers
Lierse S.K. managers
AIK Fotboll managers
APOEL FC managers
Landskrona BoIS managers
Men's association football defenders
English expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate football managers in the Netherlands
English expatriate sportspeople in Libya
Expatriate football managers in Libya
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate soccer coaches in the United States
English expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate football managers in Belgium
English expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Expatriate football managers in Sweden
English expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate football managers in Cyprus
Association football coaches
People from Borehamwood