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RIP Harry, condolences to your family and friends. Bravest of the brave you will never be forgotten.
Sorry Harry, we'll remember you as a player but we can't forget what you did for the club, your teammates and your fellow men and women in '58. If you'd prefer not to be remembered as brave and heroic, how about as a good man as Besty said:Million times this. May he rest in peace.
"I'm Henry Gregg, 34 Windsor Avenue, who played football. Who was useful at it on good days and rubbish at it on bad days," he said in 2008.
"That's what I want to be remembered for - not something that happened on the spur of the moment."
Wow. What a man. There are not enough words to adequately describe this man. Hero and legend barely cut it.
Off to see his old mates just a few days after the anniversary of the crash.
My first United hero. Once my old fella told me about his heroics in Munich, I bought a “star badge” of Harry on the forecourt.
Remember the day after JFK copped it, United vs Dippers at OT. He broke his collarbone after Ron Yeats barged into him (must’ve been inspired by the Lofthouse barge) Harry had to go off and sit on the bench. Until... he couldn’t sit there any longer watching the lads coping with just 10 men. David Herd had taken his spot in nets and left his own no.9 jersey on the bench. Harry put it on and re-appeared on the pitch playing down the right wing, arm in a sling. No permission from Busby, no checks with the linesman etc... on he went. Mad bastard. Loved him.
voted best keeper in the world after the ‘58 World Cup.
rip Harry, lad.
That's a touching story @christinaa he really was a very fine man.He twice returned to the burning fuselage and he rescued United team-mates Bobby Charlton and Dennis Viollet from the BEA Flight 609, as well as a 20-month old baby and her badly injured, pregnant mother.
I met him at a Bank many years later and i began a conversation which he gladly reciprocated.
I told him i had the club program for the first game after the crash, against Sheffield Wednesday, which has an EMPTY United line-up.
He asked if we could meet the next day and if i could bring it with me, and I will always remember him reading/viewing the write-ups in silence (what was going through his head at the time?) and i always wonder about this as i'm sure he must have had a copy of that program - i didn't ask but he did tell me to look after this program, which i do ( I framed it) till today.
RIP - Such a wonderful person.