Neil Grewcock

Neil Grewcock
Personnel
birthday	April 26, 1962
place of birth	Leicester ,  England
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1981	Leicester City	8 0(1)
1982-1983	Gillingham FC	34 0(4)
	Kettering Town
	Shepshed Charterhouse
1984-1991	Burnley FC	202 (27)
	Burnley Bank Hall
1 Only league games are given.

Neil Grewcock (born April 26, 1962 in Leicester ) is a former English football player .

Career

Grewcock joined Leicester City as a junior player in 1978 and signed a professional contract in 1979. Despite scoring in his league debut as a 16-year-old, the winger was only used sporadically and left the club after his contract expired in 1981. In March 1982, the stocky and stocky-looking Grewcock received a contract with third division Gillingham FC , but was also here in May 1983 released from his contract and continued his career in amateur football at Kettering Town and Shepshed Charterhouse .

In the summer of 1984 Grewcock was brought by John Bond to third division club Burnley FC and experienced in his first season in Turf Moor the relegation to the fourth division . For the fans of Burnley he made himself unforgettable on the last day of the 1986/87 season when the club threatened to crash out of the Football League as bottom of the table , meaning the end of the club. In the so-called "Orient Game", named after the opponent Orient , Grewcock scored a 1-0 lead with a left-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area and prepared the 2-0 lead by Ian Britton shortly after half-time with a free kick . The game ended 2-1 and Burnley managed to stay up. The following season Burnley reached the final of the Football League Trophy , Grewcock missed the final at Wembley Stadium in front of over 80,000 spectators after injuring himself in the semi-finals of the Northern Group against Halifax Town.

After 202 league games for Burnley, his contract was not renewed in 1991 and Grewcock let his career end in the amateur camp at Burnley Bank Hall. Following his footballing career, he worked as a physical therapist and settled in the Burnley area .

literature

• Roger Triggs: The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7524-2243-X , pp. 142 f .

Web links

• Seasonal usage statistics at Burnley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ clarets-mad.co.uk: The Orient Game - The Local Press ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.