David Burnside (footballer)
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| David Burnside | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | David Gort Burnside | |
| Date of birth | 10 December 1939 | |
| Place of birth | Kingswood, England | |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1955 1955–1957 |
Bristol City West Bromwich Albion |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1957–1962 1962–1964 1964–1966 1966–1968 1967 1968–1971 1971–1972 1972 |
West Bromwich Albion Southampton Crystal Palace Wolverhampton Wanderers → Los Angeles Wolves (guest) Plymouth Argyle Bristol City Colchester United |
122 (39) 61 (22) 58 (8) 40 (5) 12 (1) 105 (15) 1 (0) 13 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 1961 | England U-23 | 1 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1972–1973 1993 2000 |
Bath City England U-20 Bristol City |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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David Gort Burnside (born 10 December 1939) is an English former professional footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder for various clubs, including West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Football League First Division, before becoming a youth trainer with England and then briefly manager at Bristol City.
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[edit] Playing career
[edit] Early days
Burnside was born in Kingswood, Bristol and attended Kingswood School and represented Bristol & District Schools, before joining Bristol City as a trainee in July 1955. His father was so keen to see David develop his football skills that he installed floodlights in his back garden to enable his son to practice in the evenings.[1]
[edit] West Bromwich Albion
His potential was quickly spotted by First Division West Bromwich Albion to whom he moved in December 1955, signing professional papers in February 1957. He soon acquired nationwide fame for his incredible ball-juggling abilities when, in October 1957, during the half-time in a televised friendly match against Russian team CDSA Moscow he performed his tricks to entertain the crowd. In 1960 he entered a heading competition organised by the Sunday Dispatch newspaper. He managed 495 clean headers without a break and although this was far from a record it amply demonstrated his ball skills.[2]
During his time at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich were relatively successful, generally ending the season in the upper half of the First Division table, including reaching fourth spot in 1959–60. Burnside made 135 appearances for West Bromwich and represented England at Youth level as well as winning two under-23 caps.
[edit] Southampton
In September 1962, Ted Bates signed him for Second Division Southampton for a fee of £18,000, making him Bates's third signing in 10 days (along with George Kirby and Stuart Williams). Burnside immediately became a fixture in the Saints side, alongside Terry Paine and John Sydenham on the wings and Kirby and George O'Brien in attack. He was adept at finding space with well-timed runs, and his passing skills were terrific.
In the 1962–63 season Saints fielded the same line-up in 28 matches including all seven FA Cup matches as Saints progressed to the semi-final, going out 1–0 at Villa Park to eventual winners Manchester United, after an epic three match battle to get past Nottingham Forest in the previous round. In the first quarter-final replay against Forest, Burnside scored an 89th minute equalizer as Saints came back from a three goal deficit. In the second replay, at White Hart Lane he scored twice, including a rocket shot for the third goal as Saints finally defeated Forest 5–0.[3]
The cup run was not matched in the league, however, as Saints finished the 1962-–63 season in eleventh place, although Burnside was the second highest scorer (behind O'Brien) with 14 goals.
Despite a 6–1 victory over Charlton Athletic in the opening game of the 1963–64 season, Saints had dropped to the lower half of the table by mid-September. In the second victory of the season (2–0 over Newcastle United on 18 September) Burnside injured his knee and was out until mid-January, losing his place to John McGuigan. Although Burnside returned for a run of six games from mid-January to mid-February, including scoring in the 7–2 victory over Scunthorpe United on 29 January 1964, he was forced to sit out the remainder of the season, until the postponed final game of the season at home to Rotherham United in which he returned to score in a 6–1 victory (thereby helping Saints notch up 100 league goals for the season), with Saints finishing in fifth place.
The following season, Burnside regained his place until he was surprisingly sold to Crystal Palace in December 1964 for £12,000. The proceeds went to partly fund the purchase of Jimmy Melia, who was to lead the Saints to the First Division a year and a half later. In his two years at The Dell Burnside made a total of 70 appearances, scoring 26 goals.
[edit] Crystal Palace & Wolves
He spent two seasons with Palace in Division Two, before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 1966, helping them to promotion to Division One (as runners-up) at the end of the 1966–67 season. He remained with Wolves until March 1968, when he moved back to Division Two with Plymouth Argyle.
[edit] Plymouth Argyle
In March 1968, a fee of £7,000 took the experienced 28-year-old to Home Park as one of new manager Billy Bingham's first purchases for the Pilgrims.
Neither Bingham nor Burnside, who made his debut in a 2–0 Second Division win at Hull City, arrived in time to save Argyle from relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1967–68 season. Burnside played in the last 12 games of the campaign.
The following term, however, saw Burnside prove his worth as a player. After excelling as both inside-forward and deep-lying centre-forward, he was voted "Player of the Year" by Home Park fans in the 1968-69 campaign, in which he scored nine goals in 42 Third Division games.
With Ellis Stuttard replacing Bingham in the manager's office, Burnside was used more sparingly in the 1969–70 season (15 League games, one goal) but he was a regular once more in 1970–71, mostly as a midfielder. He managed five goals in his 36 Third Division appearances.
Burnside was an important member of the Argyle squad as the Pilgrims drifted along in the middle of the Third Division, but it is probable that he would have been even more effective if he did not have to cope with a daily commute from his Bristol home.
Burnside's last senior game for the Pilgrims was in May 1971 at Millmoor, where he scored in a 1–1 Third Division draw with Rotherham United. The following season he found himself stuck in the reserves, however, and in December 1971 he was transferred to his home-town club Bristol City. His final Argyle tally was 105 League games and 15 goals.
[edit] Later career
Burnside played just one League game for the Ashton Gate club, though, before going to Colchester United, his last League club in March 1972. In May 1972, he moved back to his home in Bristol and became player-manager of Southern League side Bath City, where he stayed until the following summer. There followed spells at various clubs including coaching at Walsall and playing/coaching with Minehead, Bridgwater Town and Taunton Town.
In October 1979, he started working for the Football Association as a regional coach in the West country, before becoming part of the international set-up in 1983, having known England manager Bobby Robson since his time at The Hawthorns. He worked as the England Youth manager until January 1997 when he rejoined Bristol City as Director of Youth Football. In January 2000, he took on the role of caretaker manager after the departure of Tony Pulis, jointly with Tony Fawthrop. In their short time as caretaker managers, Fawthrop and Burnside guided the Robins to a Wembley appearance in the Autowindscreens Shield Final, losing 2–1 to Stoke City.
After handing the manager's post to Leroy Rosenior in summer 2000, Burnside continued to assist Bristol City as technical advisor, before a spell working with Bobby Gould as football co-ordinator at Cheltenham Town, which ended in October 2003.[4][5]
[edit] Honours
[edit] As a player
- Football League Second Division runners-up: 1966–67
[edit] References
- ^ Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing, p.55. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.
- ^ Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk (2003). In That Number - A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology, pp.490. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
- ^ David Bull & Bob Brunskell (2000). Match of the Millennium. Hagiology, pp.104-107. ISBN 0-9534474-1-3.
- ^ Gould strengthens back room staff. www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on November 5, 2007.
- ^ Bloomer handed Robins chance. news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on November 5, 2007.
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