Harry Gregg: the goalkeeper who saved a family
&#;I thought &#;I won&#;t see my wife and my little girl again&#;. Eventually, I could feel blood running down my face. I thought `Christ, I&#;m not dead'&#;
Harry Gregg passed away at the age of 87 this morning. The former Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper also played for Stoke City and Doncaster Rovers, before a management career spanning almost 20 years. He will, however, perhaps be forever remembered for his actions on a snowy runway in Munich on the afternoon of February 6th He certainly will be by one particular family.
The Munich Air Crash is woven into the storied history of Manchester United, and English football as a whole. The horror of the events that unfolded as the team travelled back from a draw against Red Star Belgrade in Yugoslavia have been well-documented. After stopping to refuel in Munich, the plane attempted to take off twice, aborting both times as the plane failed to build up enough speed to become airborne. On the third time, the build-up of slush on the runway once again prevented the plane from taking off. It careered off the runway, through a boundary fence and crashed into a house on
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One of the pleasures of seeing the ‘Class of ‘92’ in action is the palpable sense, even after all these years, that the likes of Giggs, Scholes, Beckham, Butt and the Neville brothers are still terrific friends. There are bonds that will bind them together for the rest of their lives, and they will be ‘United’ in every sense until they die. It’s easy to retain happy delusions that team mates are always just like that, mates. Of course in reality it’s all too often not like that, but when you discover that people you have revered from afar for decades simply cannot get on together it’s very sad to say the least.
I was very shocked when I first found out in that Bill and Harry Gregg didn’t get along when reading A Strange Kind of Glory: Sir Matt Busby &#; Manchester United by the the Irish journalist and former footballer, Eamon Dunphy. It’s a brilliant, often unsettling book, some of which draws on Dunphy’s own insider experiences as a junior at Old Trafford, where he arrived as a kid in It’s a warts ‘n’ all study of Busby, who doesn’t always come out of it we
Harry Gregg&#;s &#;punch-up&#; at Luton in April New witnesses, 50 years on
Fifty years ago this week, some two years after the Munich Air Disaster, Harry Gregg, hero of the crash and Manchester United goalkeeper, knocked out a spectator who had rushed onto the pitch at the end of a match against Luton Town. The man suffered severe facial bruising and had to go to hospital for treatment.
I have already written at length for RoM about this jaw-dropping eruption of violence five decades ago at Kenilworth Road, so there&#;s no need to repeat it all here. Nevertheless, as we reach the 50th anniversary it is worth having another look at the events of that day which reveal how attitudes towards United were even then going through a seismic transformation. Additionally, if further excuse is needed, I have now heard from two new eyewitnesses.
When I wrote Hitting the fan with United (Part One): Homage to Harry Gregg last year I appealed to anyone else who might have seen that Luton match in April The odds were naturally stacked heavily against finding anyone, because it was all so long ago, the crowd attendance was only around 20, and there was, of course no TV coverage. So it was no
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