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Which team did the player David Burnside (footballer) belong to from 1957 to 1962?
David Burnside ( footballer ) David Gort Burnside ( 10 December 1939 – 17 October 2009 ) was an English footballer , who played as an attacking midfielder . He made a total of 405 appearances in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion , Southampton , Crystal Palace , Wolverhampton Wanderers , Plymouth Argyle , Bristol City and Colcester United . He then moved into non-league football becoming player-manager at Bath City and later became a youth trainer with England and briefly manager at Bristol City . He also made appearances for Los Angeles Wolves as a guest . Playing career . Early days . Burnside was born in Kingswood , near 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 . 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 . 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 . Southampton . In September 1962 , Ted Bates signed him for Second Division Southampton for a fee of £18,000 , making him Batess 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 OBrien 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 equaliser 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 . 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 OBrien ) 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 . Crystal Palace and Wolves . Burnside signed for Crystal Palace , then in their first season after promotion to Division Two , on 24 December 1964 . He spent one and a half seasons with Palace in Division Two , ( 58 appearances , 8 goals ) before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers on 7 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 . Whilst at Wolverhampton Wanderers , Burnside also made appearances , as a guest , for Los Angeles Wolves , essentially the Wolverhampton club , playing in the short-lived United Soccer Association league . 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 Binghams 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 managers 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 . Burnsides 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 . 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 Football League Trophy Final , losing 2–1 to Stoke City . After handing the managers 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 . Burnside died on 17 October 2009 after suffering a heart attack aged 69 . Shortly before his death , he had been adopted to contest a Bristol seat for the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) in the 2010 general election . Honours . As a player . Wolverhampton Wanderers - Football League Second Division runners-up : 1966–67