Bob Harrop

Bob Harrop
Personnel
Surname	Robert W. Harrop
birthday	August 25, 1936
place of birth	Manchester ,  England
date of death	November 8, 2007
Place of death	Margate ,  England
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1954-1959	Manchester United	10 (0)
1959-1961	Tranmere Rovers	41 (2)
1961-1969	Margate FC
1969-1972	Ashford Town	106 (9)
1972-1977	Canterbury City	177 (5)
1977	Ashford Town
1977-1988	Margate FC
1978-1979	Ramsgate FC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	England youth
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1975-1977	Canterbury City
1979-1980	Ramsgate FC
1 Only league games are given.

Robert W. "Bob" Harrop (born August 25, 1936 in Manchester , † November 8, 2007 in Margate ) was an English football player and coach .

Career

Harrop came to Manchester United at the age of 15 after completing his school career and won the FA Youth Cup in 1954 in the runner row at the side of Wilf McGuinness and Eddie Colman . In the same year he received a professional contract and made it into the English youth national team. After the Munich-Riem plane crash on February 6, 1958, when a large part of Manchester's first team was killed or seriously injured, it was used several times during the rest of the season. He made his debut in the replay of the FA Cup quarter-finals against West Bromwich Albion , when they moved into the semi-finals with a 1-0 win. His position in the runner row was mostly occupied by Stan Crowther , who was obliged shortly after the accident , so that Harrop was not used in the other cup games or in the final of the European Cup.

In November 1959 he moved together with goalkeeper Gordon Clayton for a transfer fee of 4,000 pounds to Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division . In 1961 he left Tranmere again after the team had to relegate to the Fourth Division with 115 goals conceded , and continued his career in non-league football . With FC Margate he rose in 1962/63 and 1966/67 from Division One to the Premier Division of the Southern League . He reached the main round of the FA Cup five times with the team and won several local cup competitions. After a total of 533 competitive games in eight years, in which he mostly acted as a center runner, Harrop left Margate in 1969 in the hope of a job as a player-coach. This did not come true at first, so he continued his playing career in the Southern League Division One at Ashford Town , in whose promotion season 1969/70 he was named Player of the Year within the team. From 1972 Harrop played as team captain at Canterbury City , where he also held a position in the coaching staff. In 1975 Harrop rose to the chief player-coach at Canterbury, but left the club after his dismissal in April 1977. After a brief stop at Ashford Town, he returned to Margate in August 1977 and completed another 31 competitive games for the club, when he was the third time realized promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern League with the club. When he was denied the position as coach of the reserve team that had been promised by the club, he left Margate again during the season break, whose record player he is with 564 competitive appearances (26 goals) to this day.

Harrop let his career end in connection with FC Ramsgate in the Kent League , where he took over the coaching position in March 1979, but resigned after a weak 1979/80 season. He then played in the lower class amateur football, acted several times as a coach of reserve teams and directed games as a referee at the local level. He died at the age of 71 in November 2007.

literature

• Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 175 .

Web links

• Profile at margatefootballclubhistory.com