Keith Burkinshaw
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Harry Keith Burkinshaw | ||
| Date of birth | 23 June 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Higham, Barnsley, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Wolves | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1953 | Denaby United | ||
| 1953–1957 | Liverpool | 1 | (0) |
| 1957–1965 | Workington | 293 | (9) |
| 1965–1968 | Scunthorpe United | 108 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1964–1965 | Workington | ||
| 1966–1967 | Scunthorpe United (caretaker) | ||
| 1976–1984 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| 1984–1986 | Bahrain | ||
| 1987–1988 | Sporting Clube de Portugal | ||
| 1988–1989 | Gillingham | ||
| 1991 | Pahang | ||
| 1993–1994 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
| 1997 | Aberdeen (caretaker) | ||
| 2005–2007 | Watford (assistant manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Harry Keith Burkinshaw (born 23 June 1935) is an English former professional footballer and football manager.
Burkinshaw was born in Higham, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and 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 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 coach of Newcastle United. He was sacked by Newcastle in May 1975 and joined Tottenham Hotspur as coach the same month.
He acted as manager of Tottenham Hotspur Football club from 14 July 1976 to 31 May 1984, where he won more major football competitions 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 (81 & 82).
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