Vic Buckingham
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Victor Frederick Buckingham | ||
| Date of birth | 23 October 1915 | ||
| Place of birth | Greenwich, England | ||
| Date of death | 26 January 1995 (aged 79) | ||
| Place of death | Chichester, England | ||
| Playing position | Wing-half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1934–1935 | Northfleet United | ||
| 1935–1949 | Tottenham Hotspur | 204 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1950–1951 | Pegasus | ||
| 1951–1953 | Bradford Park Avenue | ||
| 1953–1959 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
| 1959–1961 | Ajax | ||
| 1961–1964 | Sheffield Wednesday | ||
| 1964–1965 | Ajax | ||
| 1965–1968 | Fulham | ||
| 1968 | Ethnikos Piraeus | ||
| 1969–1971 | FC Barcelona | ||
| 1972 | Sevilla | ||
| 1975–1976 | Olympiacos | ||
| 1979–1980 | Rodos F.C. | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Victor Frederick Buckingham (23 October 1915 – 26 January 1995) was an English footballer whose approach as a manager was a precursor of the Total Football philosophy.
Buckingham joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1934 and played the first season (1934–35) for Tottenham Hotspur nursery club Northfleet United. After that single season he returned to Tottenham and played 230 games as a defensive midfielder before leaving in 1949. He started his managerial career with amateur team Pegasus followed by Bradford Park Avenue, then a Football League side, before taking over at West Bromwich Albion in 1953. He became the club's longest serving post-war manager, almost leading them to an elusive 'double' in 1954 when they won the FA Cup and finished second in the league.
During his management of Ajax, he spotted the young Johan Cruijff who was to go on to develop Buckingham's ideas into the mature concept of Total Football. Buckingham's ideas were radically ahead of his time - engendering total football philosophies and youth systems - and earned him a continental reputation (especially in Spain where he was appointed coach of FC Barcelona and then Sevilla FC) which more often than not overshadowed his talent back home.
However, his reputation in his native country was tarnished by his association with match fixing in the British betting scandal of 1964, revealed shortly after his spell as manager of Sheffield Wednesday. Although the allegations were never proven against him, three of his players at Wednesday – Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne – were accused of taking bribes to fix a match with Ipswich Town on 1 December 1962 and betting on their team to lose.[1]
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