1 managerial career
1.1 introduction management
1.2 influence
1.3 wolverhampton wanderers
1.4 legacy
managerial career
introduction management
buckley went war 17th middlesex regiment (where commanded football battalion) seeing action , receiving wounds lung , shoulder in battle of somme , rose rank of major. on return, appointed manager of norwich city. canaries had been debt-ridden receivers had wound club up, following extraordinary general meeting, club resurrected , buckley placed in charge in february 1919 , returned club southern league football. despite retiring playing during war, buckley played 1 game norwich in september 1919, when club s secretary-manager.
once again buckley’s stay short. july 1920 gone, financial disputes precipitating wholesale change of personnel.
influence
as result, buckley s influence on rise of blackpool , wolves sides of 1950s, of leeds united club culture of 1960s , 1970s should never understated. principles may not have been adopted directly busby, shankly, clough , ferguson innovative principles quite commonplace now. buckley s financial acumen may have come stint travelling salesman in 1920s, returned football management blackpool on 6 october 1923, , there buckley’s ideas started come fore. lured bloomfield road promise of extremely high salary , enough money strengthen squad. buckley credited implementing youth system , scouting scheme seasiders.
despite total change of tactics, buckley did not have more success blackpool did predecessor, bill norman. during 1924–25 season, sold established players such herbert jones , harry bedford, proved unpopular amongst fans.
as of 2013, buckley eighth longest serving blackpool manager in terms of football league games in charge.
wolverhampton wanderers
in july 1927, buckley took appointment wolverhampton wanderers. stan cullis wrote of him: realised major buckley 1 out of top drawer. did not suffer fools gladly. style of management in football similar attitude in army. major buckley implanted mind direct method of playing did away close interpassing , square-ball play. if didn t style d on bicycle club. didn t defenders over-elaborating in defensive positions. major buckley knew how deal press. (cullis, quoted in taylor , ward, 1995, pp. 31–2)
buckley s stay @ wolves can taken 2 ways. on face of it, appeared achieve modest success club; won division 2 title in 1931–32 , finished runners-up in division 1 in 1937–38 , in both first division , fa cup following season. alternative view during stay @ molineux, buckley once made club £100,000 profit within 1 year, purely on transfer deals; toyed, provocatively, media (instigating empty rumour players using monkey gland treatment aid performance), used psychologists instill confidence in players , responsible bringing through stan cullis , offering billy wright start in professional football. after had left club, however, full value of vision, not least wolves youth programme, came fruition , did shape wolves side of 1950s, when won 3 division 1 championships, twice won fa cup, , 1 of few genuine challengers busby babes.
buckley left wolves in 1944 , non-committal couple of years followed @ notts county (for then-unheard-of £4,000 year) , hull city before starting work @ leeds united, 1 of first discoveries john charles after christmas 1948. not afraid try manner of ideas induce elland road club out of mediocrity: dancing songs broadcast through public address system during training days, so-called shooting boxes (a contraption designed send ball out @ different speeds , angles players), increasing admission costs, youth development programmes. john charles did excel during 1954–55 season team failed respond in kind.
legacy
buckley, stern disciplinarian throughout career, earned devotion , affection, not least because tracksuit manager. brought in jack charlton, had him:
unlike pros, got 2 weeks holidays in summer, , while away our job remove weeds pitch , replace them grass seed. remember being sat out there 1 day keith ripley, ground staff boy, when major buckley came on us. must have looked pretty forlorn, 2 of us, , gee said d give 5 shillings every bucket filled weeds. offer couldn t refuse. time finished, had filled 6 buckets, and, cheeky bugger was, marched straight major s office. , when asked wanted, told him there claim thirty bob weeds. blew bloody gasket! out of here! bellowed. re getting paid work – don t ever let me see here again buckets.
yet beneath gruff exterior, kind man, demonstrated once when met him. shoes must have been sight, when looked down @ them, asked me if pair had. nodded. next morning, summoned me office , handed me pair of irish brogues, strongest, beautiful shoes d ever seen. , had them years.
buckley left leeds in april 1953, moving walsall, left them in september 1955.
buckley died in walsall in december 1964, aged 82.
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