Talk:Harry Gregg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Ireland Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ireland, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Ireland on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, visit the project page.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)
Low	This article has been rated as low-importance on the priority scale.

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

	Association football Portal The article on Harry Gregg is supported by the WikiProject on Football, which is an attempt to improve the quality and coverage of Association football related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page; if you have any questions about the project or the article ratings below, please consult the FAQ.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

Contents 1 Best ever? 2 Magherafelt?? 3 WikiProject class rating 4 Coleraine is wrong

[edit] Best ever?

"Harry Gregg is rated by many as the best goalkeeper Manchester United ever had"

I think this needs an example or two, as I've not heard many people claim this (I think a clear majority of people would rate Schmeichel as the best.) See Wikipedia:Avoid weasel terms (although I should point out that a lot of people disagree with this guideline..

- Yes, best ever according to both separate polls of fans and players. It's hard for you to say to avoid weasel terms, whilst saying that you think Schmeichel would clearly be the best.. Although admittedly this is a talk page. I can always see if I can dig up the articles and references. It should also include how he was, at the time, the world record transfer fee for a goalkeeper, and that he helped Northern Ireland to the quarter finals in the World Cup, whilst simultaneously playing with a broken (if I recall correctly) ankle, resulting in him being Goalkeeper of the World Cup. M'uncle Henry ftw. :) --EmSixTeen

[edit] Magherafelt??

Harry Gregg was born just outside Tobermore not in Magherafelt, he even states this in his biography so i'm changing it. Mabuska 17:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I think you are both wrong he used to Own the windsor hotel in Portstewart now disused and it was named after the street in Coleraine he was Born in Windsor Avenue i found this info out from a book called "silver linings about a English Journalists tales of travels around Northern Ireland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.240.15 (talk) 17:47, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Most people mistake him as being born in Coleraine, just as many mistake the actor James Nesbitt as being born in Coleraine even though he was born near Broughshane outside Ballymena a good wee bit away from Coleraine! Many people wrongly assume as a person grew up in a place they must have been born there. Mabuska (talk) 20:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Please quote the details. The local hospital (Mid-Ulster) is in Magherafelt unless he was a home birth....Ok well the authors name I believe is Martin Fletcher he worked as a Journalist for the Telegraph or times (telegraph im 99% certain ) for their NI coverage Glasseyes 14:47, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

If you want to be that technical about place of birth your gonna have a hell of a job editing all the articles on Wikipedia that aren't lol ;-). Home births would of been common prior to WWII i'm assumming espec as we still had outside toilets well into the 60's. Mabuska (talk) 20:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

And just incase anyone wants to argue here's other articles on the web that state Tobermore as Harry Gregg's place of birth: [1], [2], News of the World, Belfast Telegraph. Many journalists assume coz someone grew up in a place they where born there, such journalsts aren't worth their grain in salt if they don't do appropraite research. Mabuska (talk) 20:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 08:39, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coleraine is wrong

He was born in Tobermore, it says so in his 2002 Autobiography Harry's Game. I quote I was born on 27 October 1932, in the village of Tobermore. He of course may have 'actually' been born in Magherafelt Hospital a few miles down the road. Therefore either Tobermore or Magherafelt should be used. Have a look on the internet and every page will give his DOB as either one of these two.

The person who said Coleraine got confused because that is where he moved to when he was young. Again from his autobiography I quote The Gregg family moved to Windsor Avenue in Coleraine and it was there that I spent my teenage years page 11. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plkmo (talk • contribs) 16:17, 22 January 2008 (UTC)