Harry Gregg

comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 2 minutes ago
Good post. You must be old though.
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He seemed a bit too adventurous to most of us in his early days; he used to come out of his goal a lot and skilful forwards quite often chipped him. He was one of the first to establish this as the modern style.

Many regarded him as the best in the world in his day. Some people are scarcely recognisable from their youthful self, but he never changed.

In career achievement, probably the most successful player Doncaster Rovers ever "produced".

Nookie, thanks for the memory of Harry's warm-up routine - I'm sure it was to find-up Charlie! Your post (and Donaldo's) sum up my thoughts well - love that quote from 2008, which I'd seen among the many wonderful tributes on the BBC's web site.
I have several memories of his goalkeeping, but one memory will stay with me - when he thumped Brian Clough (I think) in the Boxing Day game against Middlesborough. I hope my memory is at least partially accurate - to the "strangers" on this thread, I'm VERY old...I even saw Peter Doherty play!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p083pfwh

Interview with Harry

RIP.

Big Ulsterman was a hero on and off the pitch.

Classy keeper

Just listened to the interview and it was a pity that someone that had seen that team of which he was a member did not do it. But it was wonderful to listen to him talk about those times. I'd forgotten that Alick could sing - I heard him in the 60s at the Top Rank - Frank Sinatra style!





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Yes, Donaldo, that interview was great, especially as it also brought back great memories for me. I'd forgotten about Jackie Teasdale - but I looked at my old autograph book, and he is in there (I wondered if Harry had Jackie mixed up with Johnny Mooney). It was good to hear Geoff Walker's name as he lived just behind us in Bessacarr, and he helped me get the autographs of some of the players. The respect for Peter the Great was good to here. Much simpler times - 7 pounds 10, etc.!

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It was amusing to hear him talk of Brian Makepeace and Arthur Adey as "hard men" when he himself seemed to be the epitome of one.

I remember Arthur Adey, tall with dark curly hair and rather mild looking, a centre forward, who was prone to miss easy scoring chances.

Jack Hodgson and Syd Bycroft were two hard men on the pitch, although Syd seemed very affable off it.

And to add a final thought, it was Newcastle where Bill Paterson went I think, not Rangers.