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Gary Sprake RIP

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
in Other Football and Sports
The keeper of the Leeds 60s/70s team had died aged 71.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    Blimey, there's a blast from M.O.T.D's of the past!

    RIP
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    RIP careless hands

    Wonder if any of his Leeds team will attend the funeral
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    RIP
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Not a brilliant keeper, but part of one of the best teams I've ever seen play football.

    RIP.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    RIP.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited October 2016
    Played a major part in the Revie side which swept the board in the seventies and a very good Welsh international goalkeeper IMO. Prone to the odd howler mainly in live TV matches which clouded a lot of people's judgement of him.
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/20/gary-sprake-obituary#scso=uid_WAnF8AAPFQMKwAVBTQRjvA_0:0
    RIP
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    R I P
  • AddickedAthletic
    AddickedAthletic Posts: 834
    edited October 2016
    RIP Gary Sprake

    Grew up really loving the Leeds team of the early seventies I don't know why I just did
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited October 2016
    AddickedAthletic said:

    RIP Gary Sprake

    Grew up really loving the Leeds team of the early seventies I don't know why I just did

    Me too, it wasn't pretty at times but they knew how to win, literally fought tooth and nail for one another and had no shortage of good skilful players throughout the team (a bit like our promotion team in 2011/12)
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Like a lot of keepers he will be remembered for his blunders rather than his saves and the fact that Harvey replaced him for some important matches. But he was better than than that as evidenced by the 500 plus games and more than 200 clean sheets before being sold for a world record fee for a goalkeeper at the time of £100,000.

    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited October 2016
    RIP

    One of those goalkeepers who could be brilliant one moment and make a real howler the next.

    Those of us 'of an age' all remember the howlers such as throwing the ball in his own net but he had a good few years in goal for Leeds and played a lot of internationals for Wales so must have done something right.
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    SheffieldRed said:


    RIP careless hands

    Wonder if any of his Leeds team will attend the funeral

    The above appears to have upset someone.

    For those that don't know careless hands was Sprake's nickname, one that was accepted by the man himself & he gave his autobiography the same name. Despite the nickname he would have been a decent keeper given he played for a good team and won major trophies.

    Following his comments about Revie, which probably caused Revie to leave the England job, he was ostracised by his former Leeds teammates. To the best of my knowledge he spoke to no Leeds teammate for 30 years, a club where players of that generation regularly meet. He was then reconciled with Eddie Gray but had no contact with any of the others. His comments regarding Revie were not in isolation McLintock, Ball and others also spoke out.


  • JWADDICK
    JWADDICK Posts: 846
    SheffieldRed said:

    SheffieldRed said:


    RIP careless hands

    Wonder if any of his Leeds team will attend the funeral

    The above appears to have upset someone.

    For those that don't know careless hands was Sprake's nickname, one that was accepted by the man himself & he gave his autobiography the same name. Despite the nickname he would have been a decent keeper given he played for a good team and won major trophies.

    Following his comments about Revie, which probably caused Revie to leave the England job, he was ostracised by his former Leeds teammates. To the best of my knowledge he spoke to no Leeds teammate for 30 years, a club where players of that generation regularly meet. He was then reconciled with Eddie Gray but had no contact with any of the others. His comments regarding Revie were not in isolation McLintock, Ball and others also spoke out.
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    Revie for all his faults (and there were many) did not suffer fools. Sprake would not have survived in the cauldron that was Elland Road in those days if he had not had something about him.

    RIP
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    RIO, a player I remember well
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    I have a wonderful black and white, 10" x 8" glossy press photo of Eddie Firmani, Jack Charlton and Gary Sprake all jumping for the ball during a league game at the Valley during the 63/4 season, against a packed east terrace.

    RIP.
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    R.I.P. A relatively young age to go, and sad.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,675
    AddickedAthletic said:

    RIP Gary Sprake

    Grew up really loving the Leeds team of the early seventies I don't know why I just did

    So did I, i even adopted them as my second team that way i could give itto all the kids who supported so called Big London teams.
    Something i couldn't do supporting Charlton.

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