Harry Dowd

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Harry Dowd
Personnel
Surname Harold William Dowd
birthday 4th July 1938
place of birth Manchester ,  England
date of death April 7, 2015
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1960 ICI Blackley
1960-1970 Manchester City 181 (1)
1969-1970 →  Stoke City  (loan) 3 (0)
1970-1974 Oldham Athletic 121 (0)
from 1974 Northwich Victoria
1 Only league games are given.

Harold William "Harry" Dowd (born July 4, 1938 in Manchester , † April 7, 2015 ) was an English football goalkeeper . In the mid-1960s he was mostly “number 1” at Manchester City , which won the English championship in 1968 and the FA Cup a year later . He was in the 1969 final team, which defeated Leicester City 1-0 after he had previously been able to contribute little to the league title due to injury and was mostly represented by Ken Mulhearn .

Athletic career

Dowd initially played purely on an amateur basis for the small club ICI Blackley and went to his profession as a plumber. He continued to do this job on a part-time basis after joining Manchester City's professional division in July 1960 . On December 9, 1961, he was the first time in a first division game for the "Citizens" between the posts, where he was defeated by the Blackburn Rovers 1: 4 as a representative of the injured Bert Trautmann . During the following season 1962/63 he established himself more and more first choice, but the season ended disappointingly for him with relegation as penultimate .

The return to the English elite class took three years and Dowd contributed to the runner-up in the second division in 1966 38 appearances. He had previously made headlines on February 8, 1964 against Bury FC , after suffering an injury in the game and then equalizing the 1-1 draw as a makeshift center forward. When Manchester City won the English championship two years after promotion , it was again a lesion that affected Dowd. As a result, he lost his place to Ken Mulhearn and with just seven games he had not qualified for an official medal. Then he regained his regular place and was part of the team that defeated Leicester City 1-0 in the final of the FA Cup .

Early in the 1969/70 season, the young Joe Corrigan emerged as his permanent successor and in October 1969 he was temporarily loaned to league rivals Stoke City , where he made three championship appearances as a substitute for Gordon Banks . In December 1970 Dowd left Manchester City after a total of 219 competitive games to end his professional career at Oldham Athletic until 1974. There he was part of a team that in 1971 was promoted to the third division and three years later to the second division before moving on to Northwich Victoria .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Man City team-mates pay tribute to legend Harry Dowd after he passes away
  2. ^ "Call yourself a football fan? - Mark E Smith " (When Saturday Comes)
personal data
SURNAME Dowd, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dowd, Harold Wiliam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , England
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2015