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Letter: Bob Wood remembers Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg, who died this month

In 1959, the year after the Munich disaster, at the age of 10, I cycled from my home in Timperley to Harry Gregg’s house in Sale in order to try to get his autograph. When I knocked at the door his wife invited me in as Harry hadn’t got back from training. I was devastated to learn from your obituary that she must have died a year or so later.

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