Keith Burkinshaw

Burkinshaw was born in Higham, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. He passed his 11-plus and attended Barnsley grammar school, being in the same school year as Michael Parkinson. He obtained six O-levels and after leaving school, he 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. 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.

Shortly after announcing his retirement, Burkinshaw moved to Zambia where he coached for a few months before returning to England as first team coach of Newcastle United. He was sacked by Newcastle on 1 May 1975 and joined Tottenham Hotspur as coach a month later. He became manager after Terry Neill 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 stars, Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa, 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 in the 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 UEFA Cup for a second time after a penalty shoot-out after the second leg at White Hart Lane. In doing so, they beat an Anderlecht team that included the future Spurs Sporting Director Frank Arnesen. 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…

As a manager

Tottenham Hotspur

FA Cup: 1980–81, 1981–82 UEFA Cup: 1983–84 FA Charity Shield: 1981 (shared) Football League Cup runner-up: 1981–82 Sporting CP

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1987–88