Career
Playing career
Spurgeon played non-league football in England for Margate, Leytonstone, Folkestone Town, Herne Bay and Snowdown Colliery Welfare. Coaching career
Spurgeon was manager of Dutch clubs Ajax from 1961 to 1962, Heracles Almelo from 1963 to 1964, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam and AGOVV and he later coached the Libyan national side, the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League, Belgian side K.V. Mechelen Swedish side AIK, Cypriot side APOEL, and Landskrona, also of Sweden.