Jack Burkitt
Midfielder, Football player
1926 – 2003
Who was Jack Burkitt?
Jack Burkitt was an English-born football midfielder, who made over 500 senior appearances for Nottingham Forest between 1947 and 1962 and who captained them to win the 1959 FA Cup Final.
He started at his local club Darlaston and joined Forest at the start of the 1947-48 season. He went on to make 503 senior appearances for Forest and scored 15 goals for them, and during his time at the club Forest won two promotions and defeated Luton Town in the 1959 FA Cup final.
After his playing career finished he remained at the club as one of the coaching staff, before becoming manager of Notts County in 1966. The following year he joined Derby County as trainer under Brian Clough, although he left them due to ill heath in 1969.
He died on 12 September 2003 in Brighouse.
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1926
Wednesbury - Lived in
- Wednesbury
- Died
- Sep 12, 2003
Brighouse
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on July 23, 2013
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