Leit å lese at David Harvey er alvorlig syk. Tidenes beste keeper. Get well David.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Heart-attack-drama-for-cup.5973453.jpHeart attack drama for cup hero Harvey
Published: 13:38 Updated: 15:21 Monday 11 January 2010
By Paul Robinson LEEDS United goalkeeping great David Harvey has been taken to hospital after a heart attack. Harvey, 61, part of Don Revie's all-conquering Leeds set-up of the 1960s and 1970s, had the attack at his home on Sanday in the Orkney Islands. He was airlifted to the Scottish mainland and was yesterday in an undisclosed hospital in Edinburgh. Wife June has been by the former Scottish international’s bedside. She said that her husband was “on the mend†and should be ready to go home later this week. News of Harvey’s illness brought a get well soon message from Ray Fell, chairman of the Leeds United Supporters’ Club. He said: “I’m sure the supporters’ club will, to a man, want to see David back on his feet as soon as possible.†Harvey, a postman on Sanday, made more than 350 appearances during two spells with Leeds.
He spent several years as understudy to Gary Sprake but eventually became first-choice keeper in the 1971-72 season. Harvey played a starring role in United’s 1972 FA Cup final win over Arsenal. He also appeared for Scotland in the 1974 World Cup, although an injury ruled him out of Leeds’s 1975 European Cup final game against Bayern Munich. Stint Harvey, nicknamed ‘The Viking’ on account of his droopy moustache and shoulder-length hair, left United for a stint with Canada’s Vancouver Whitecaps in 1979 before making a brief return to Elland Road in 1983.
He upped sticks in the mid-1990s for the Orkney Islands and a laid-back existence far removed from the glare of the soccer spotlight. Speaking in 1998, Harvey said: “I wish I had moved to Sanday years earlier. It is not as if we are living in the Arctic Circle and cut off from the rest of civilisation but it is a world away from city life.â€
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