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Keith Burkinshaw on sprinkling Spurs with Argentinian stardust, mixing it with Paisley and Clough... and why English coaches now get a raw deal

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From Duncan Edwards to Sean Dyche, the elderly gentleman sipping coffee in a Somerset village pub is a walking encyclopedia of English football history, and not simply because he's the only living Englishman to have won a major European trophy as manager.

Tottenham great Keith Burkinshaw played with Big Dunc during national service — 'a smashing lad and so good he was allowed to leave base every weekend to play for Manchester United' — and 50 years later saw Dyche take his first coaching steps with Watford's youth team as the club's assistant manager.

Burkinshaw, now 82 but looking a decade younger, is best known for helping the glory days return to White Hart Lane in the Eighties, when he led a glamour team featuring Ossie Ardiles and Glenn Hoddle to two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup.