Harry Gregg, MBE (born 25 October 1932) is a Northern Irish former football player and manager. Harry started his career with Windsor Park Swifts, the reserve team of Linfield, before signing for his local club Coleraine. At the age of 18 he earned a move across the Irish Sea to Doncaster Rovers, before transferring to Manchester United in December 1957. He earned 25 caps for the Northern Ireland national team. At the time of his transfer, he was the most expensive goalkeeper in the world.

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  • Harry Gregg, MBE (born 25 October 1932) is a Northern Irish former football player and manager. Harry started his career with Windsor Park Swifts, the reserve team of Linfield, before signing for his local club Coleraine. At the age of 18 he earned a move across the Irish Sea to Doncaster Rovers, before transferring to Manchester United in December 1957. He earned 25 caps for the Northern Ireland national team. At the time of his transfer, he was the most expensive goalkeeper in the world. Gregg was voted best goalkeeper of the tournament at 1958 World Cup. At the time the All-star team was voted on by the journalists covering the tournament, and Gregg got 478 votes - way ahead of closest competitor Lev Yashin with 122 votes. Gregg was a goalkeeper who had 48 clean sheets in his United career. He is sometimes called 'The Hero of Munich' because he pulled some of his team mates from the burning plane during the Munich air disaster including Bobby Charlton, Jackie Blanchflower and Dennis Viollet. Among those he helped was Vera Lukic, the pregnant wife of a Yugoslav diplomat and her daughter, Vesna, as well as his badly-injured manager Sir Matt Busby. Harry Gregg is rated by many as one of the best goalkeepers Manchester United ever had, yet he achieved no medals to justify this claim - made all the more frustrating for him by the fact that he played for the club during one of their most successful periods. He was ruled out of the 1963 FA Cup victory due to a serious shoulder injury, and a succession of injuries meant that he could not play enough games to qualify for a league championship medal in the 1964-65 and 1966-67 title-winning campaigns. He was transferred to Stoke City in the summer of 1967. He left Stoke City to manage Shrewsbury Town. In November 1972, he became manager of Swansea City, resigning in February 1975 to join Crewe Alexandra where he remained until 1978. He then had a spell with his old team Manchester United at the invitation of Dave Sexton as goalkeeper coach, where he stayed until Sexton left. His next club was Swindon Town as assistant manager to Lou Macari, helping them win the Fourth Division title in 1986. During the 1986-87 season he had an uneventful spell as manager of Carlisle United, failing to prevent them from suffering a second successive relegation that pushed them into the Fourth Division for the first time since the 1960s. For some years after this he owned a hotel (fittingly called The Windsor Hotel) in the town of Portstewart on the North Antrim coast of his native Northern Ireland. He received an MBE in 1995 and has appeared in a number of recent television programmes about Manchester United and the Munich Air Disaster, including Munich: End of a Dream - a documentary televised in 1998 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich tragedy. He was voted best goalkeeper of the tournament in the 1958 FIFA World Cup according to the FIFA documentary "FIFA fever". On the 50th anniversary of the air crash he appeared in the documentary One Life: Munich Air Disaster in which he returned to the scene of the crash for the first time and also met the son of Mrs Lukic who she was pregnant with at the time of the disaster. He expressed disappointment at never having been able to meet Mr Lukic, who had died in 2007. On 1 July 2008 Gregg was made an Honorary Graduate of the University of Ulster and awarded a Doctor of the University (DUniv) in recognition of his contribution to football at their Summer Graduation Ceremony
  • Harry Gregg ist ein ehemaliger nordirischer Fußballspieler und -trainer.
  • Harry Gregg MBE fou un futbolista nord-irlandès que jugava a la posició de porter. Com a futbolista destacà al Manchester United on és considerat un dels seus més grans porters de la història. Va sobreviure a l'accident aeri que el seu equip patí a Munic i on diversos dels seus companys van morir. Quan deixà el Manchester defensà els colors de l'Stoke City. Disputà 25 partits amb la selecció nord-irlandesa entre els anys 1954 i 1964, disputant la Copa del Món de Suècia 58. Un cop retirat fou entrenador de clubs modestos com Shrewsbury Town, Swansea City o Crewe Alexandra. Va rebre l'Orde de l'Imperi Britànic el 1995.
  • Harry Gregg, MBE, né le 25 octobre 1932 à Tobermore, est un ancien footballeur nord-irlandais qui évoluait au poste de gardien de but à Manchester United et en équipe d'Irlande du Nord. Gregg n'a marqué aucun but lors de ses vingt-cinq sélections avec l'équipe d'Irlande du Nord entre 1954 et 1964.
  • Harry Gregg er en tidligere nordirsk fotballspiller og trener. Han huskes best som keeper for Manchester United på slutten av 1950-tallet og første halvdel av 1960-tallet. Han overlevde München-ulykken i 1958, hvor han bare fikk lettere skader, og sies å ha reddet livet til flere andre passasjerer ved å dra dem ut fra det brennende flyvraket. Gregg ankom Manchester United kun halvannen måned før flyulykken. Gregg, som allerede var nordirsk landslagskeeper, ble kjøpt fra andredivisjonsklubben Doncaster Rovers i desember 1957, og han gikk rett inn på laget. I Uniteds første kamp etter flyulykken, var Gregg og Bill Foulkes de to eneste fra klubbens ordinære førstelag som var i stand til å spille. Han var med på å vinne FA-cupen i 1963, men ble aldri ligamester. Da United vant ligaen i 1964/65, mistet Gregg hele sesongen på grunn av skade, og da klubben vant et nytt ligagull i 1966/67 hadde han blitt solgt til Stoke. Til sammen spilte Gregg 249 kamper for Manchester United. Han spilte også 25 landskamper for Nord-Irland, og deltok i fotball-VM i 1958. Etter at spillerkarrieren tok slutt i 1967, var han manager i Shrewsbury, Swansea, Crewe og Carlisle.
  • Harry Gregg é um ex-futebolista e treinador de futebol norte-irlandês. Ele foi um dos sobreviventes do desastre aéreo de Munique e goleiro da seleção da Irlanda do Norte de 1958. Conseguiu levar o Ulster as quartas-de-final, feito que nunca mais aconteceu. Gregg abandonou a carreira de jogador em 1967, no Stoke City. No ano seguinte, iniciou sua trajetória como treinador, no Shrewsbury Town. Treinou também Swansea, Crewe e Carlisle United, até sua aposentadoria, em 1987.
  • Ге́нри Грегг, более известный как Га́рри Грегг — североирландский футбольный вратарь и футбольный тренер. Наиболее известен по своей карьере в английском клубе «Манчестер Юнайтед», а также по выступлениям за сборную Северной Ирландии.
  • Harry Gregg, född 25 oktober 1932, är en nordirländsk före detta fotbollsmålvakt. Gregg inledde sin karriär i Windsor Park Swifts FC, Linfield FC:s reservlag, och gick senare vidare till Coleraine FC. Som 18-åring skrev han på för det engelska ligalaget Doncaster Rovers och 1957 köptes han av Manchester United FC. Gregg överlevde flygolyckan i München 1958. Han hjälpte även flera människor ur det brinnande planet och kom med anledning av detta att kallas The Hero of Munich. I Nordirlands landslag gjorde Gregg 25 matcher. Han spelade bland annat VM 1958 i Sverige, Nordirlands första världsmästerskap där man överraskande nådde kvartsfinal. Han tilldelades 1995 Brittiska Imperieorden.
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  • Harry Gregg, MBE (born 25 October 1932) is a Northern Irish former football player and manager. Harry started his career with Windsor Park Swifts, the reserve team of Linfield, before signing for his local club Coleraine. At the age of 18 he earned a move across the Irish Sea to Doncaster Rovers, before transferring to Manchester United in December 1957. He earned 25 caps for the Northern Ireland national team. At the time of his transfer, he was the most expensive goalkeeper in the world.
  • Harry Gregg ist ein ehemaliger nordirischer Fußballspieler und -trainer.
  • Harry Gregg MBE fou un futbolista nord-irlandès que jugava a la posició de porter. Com a futbolista destacà al Manchester United on és considerat un dels seus més grans porters de la història. Va sobreviure a l'accident aeri que el seu equip patí a Munic i on diversos dels seus companys van morir. Quan deixà el Manchester defensà els colors de l'Stoke City. Disputà 25 partits amb la selecció nord-irlandesa entre els anys 1954 i 1964, disputant la Copa del Món de Suècia 58.
  • Harry Gregg, MBE, né le 25 octobre 1932 à Tobermore, est un ancien footballeur nord-irlandais qui évoluait au poste de gardien de but à Manchester United et en équipe d'Irlande du Nord. Gregg n'a marqué aucun but lors de ses vingt-cinq sélections avec l'équipe d'Irlande du Nord entre 1954 et 1964.
  • Harry Gregg er en tidligere nordirsk fotballspiller og trener. Han huskes best som keeper for Manchester United på slutten av 1950-tallet og første halvdel av 1960-tallet. Han overlevde München-ulykken i 1958, hvor han bare fikk lettere skader, og sies å ha reddet livet til flere andre passasjerer ved å dra dem ut fra det brennende flyvraket. Gregg ankom Manchester United kun halvannen måned før flyulykken.
  • Harry Gregg é um ex-futebolista e treinador de futebol norte-irlandês. Ele foi um dos sobreviventes do desastre aéreo de Munique e goleiro da seleção da Irlanda do Norte de 1958. Conseguiu levar o Ulster as quartas-de-final, feito que nunca mais aconteceu. Gregg abandonou a carreira de jogador em 1967, no Stoke City. No ano seguinte, iniciou sua trajetória como treinador, no Shrewsbury Town. Treinou também Swansea, Crewe e Carlisle United, até sua aposentadoria, em 1987.
  • Ге́нри Грегг, более известный как Га́рри Грегг — североирландский футбольный вратарь и футбольный тренер. Наиболее известен по своей карьере в английском клубе «Манчестер Юнайтед», а также по выступлениям за сборную Северной Ирландии.
  • Harry Gregg, född 25 oktober 1932, är en nordirländsk före detta fotbollsmålvakt. Gregg inledde sin karriär i Windsor Park Swifts FC, Linfield FC:s reservlag, och gick senare vidare till Coleraine FC. Som 18-åring skrev han på för det engelska ligalaget Doncaster Rovers och 1957 köptes han av Manchester United FC. Gregg överlevde flygolyckan i München 1958. Han hjälpte även flera människor ur det brinnande planet och kom med anledning av detta att kallas The Hero of Munich.
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