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	Gary Sprake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sprake became known during and after his career as a goalkeeper who was brilliant but occasionally prone to appalling mistakes, but he spent more than a decade at the club as No.1 keeper and won enough honours in the game to suggest he was a better keeper than given credit for.
		Sprake was holding the ball and was set to throw it to the left back, Terry Cooper, only to curtail his throw when he spotted Liverpool winger Ian Callaghan running towards the area he planned to hurl the ball.
		Sprake's liability was not as abundant this time, as a quick free kick was delivered into the danger zone by John Hollins and Ian Hutchinson managed to glance a header past Sprake at the near post.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Sprake (1225 words)

	leedsfans.org.uk: Leeds United Player Profile: Gary Sprake
		Gary Sprake is a name synonymous with goalkeeping cock-ups: mention his name to most non-Leeds fans and they'll start humming "Careless Hands".
		Sprake was very much part of that tream until late on, and missed out on the Cup win over Arsenal (when Harvey was excellant).
		Gary had a habit of catching the ball with one of his legs quite high as he jumped- he scrunched his studs into the face of Hutchinson (I think) right in front of me after the refs back was turned.
	www.leedsfans.org.uk /leeds/players/372.html (2567 words)

	Leeds United News - Leeds Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sprake was a member of the successful Don Revie Leeds side of the late 1960s and early 1970s and won just about every medal going in the game with the exception of the European Cup.
		Sprake actually met Eddie Gray last week for the first time since 1973 â“ the pair didn't speak when they were in the same room at Birmingham City two years ago â“ but there are many others who refuse to acknowledge his presence ands he remains firmly the outcast of the all-conquering squad.
		Sprake didn't take the calls from Revie or his former skipper Billy Bremner, declined a weekend meet with his former boss at a secluded Leeds location, and went ahead with his decision to speak to the newspaper working on the story.
	www.leedstoday.net /ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=51&articleid=1377771 (1688 words)

	The Definitive History of Leeds United - Review of 1962-63 - Part 2 - Dawning of a new era
		Sprake had made his debut the previous season, but the others' only experience was in the reserves.
		Sprake, Reaney and Hunter retained their places, but it remained a gamble for Revie to rely on such unproven talent against one of the most powerful sides in the division.
		However, Gary Sprake and his beleaguered defence stood up well to the test, and it was the 70th minute before Stoke managed to narrow the deficit, Bebbington netting the rebound after Sprake spilled Ratcliffe's effort.
	www.mightyleeds.co.uk /seasons/196263part2.htm (5867 words)

	BBC - Leeds - Sport - Gary Sprake speaks
		Gary played over 500 games for United and is trying to restore his reputation.
		Gary Sprake talks about the infamous incident at Anfield which led to his recent book being entitled Careless Hands.
		Later on in Sprake's time at Elland Road there would be allegations of attempted match fixing involving Leeds United, and Gary Sprake explains why he spoke out publicly about it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leeds/content/articles/2006/03/09/sport_leeds_united_gary_sprake_feature.shtml (445 words)

	The Definitive History of Leeds United - Review of 1963-64 - Part 1 - Kicker conspiracy
		Billy Bremner, Paul Reaney, Gary Sprake and Norman Hunter were all first team regulars at 20-years-old or less, teenagers Rod Johnson, Peter Lorimer, Barrie Wright and Jimmy Greenhoff had been blooded and Terry Cooper and Paul Madeley would soon get their chances.
		Sprake, I thought, expected the ball to pass outside; afterwards he said he was unsighted.
		Sprake came rushing out to catch the ball but dropped it, allowing Herd to slam it home through a ruck of players.
	www.mightyleeds.co.uk /seasons/196364part1.htm (6220 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| You are not alone (reprise)
		Sprake added to his list with a terrible performance in the 1970 FA Cup final, going down in instalments just before half-time and letting Chelsea midfielder Peter Houseman's lame 25-yard shot slip under his body.
		With the ball resting on the platform of his palm in the manner of a tray-wielding butler presenting the gentleman of the house with a bottle of his favoured port, Dibble watched in horror as cheeky Forest winger Gary Crosby came from behind, nodded the ball to the ground, and walked it into the goal.
		In homage to former Wales goalkeeper Gary Sprake (see above), the current minder of the Cymru onion bag replicated the Leeds legend's error in the 1970 Cup final by going down in instalments just before half-time and letting West Brom midfielder Sean Gregan's lame 25-yard shot slip under his body.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,852110,00.html (1058 words)

	Kewell...interesting things \|\| Unofficial Leeds United - Unofficial Leeds United Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sprake was a fantastic keeper during te Reeve era but was prone to some serious gaffs.
		Well Sprake as Paul Madeley would have been the first million pound player had Don excepted the offer from Scum long before Trevor Francis went for that amount.
		HANG ON A MINUTE....!!!!!....After my short time here, are you saying that the Sprake that keeps getting shot down for his comments on here, is the real thing....Gary I mean....or am I just getting it wrong....I just thought it was a guy with the same surname.
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	Lennart Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		GARY SPRAKE won his first international caps for Wales six years ago — yet, although he has been recognized as one of the top goalkeepers in Britain since his Leauge debut in 1962, the Swansea born star has appeared only 18 times for Wales.
		This is only two moore than his recognized understudy, Tony Millington, of Swamsea, who stepped in for Sprake in all three of last season´s home internationals.
		Sprake made his debut early in Don Revie´s managerial career and his consistency has been tough on his Leeds born deputy.
	www.justcatnaps.com /collection/GoodisonLeedsGarySprake.html (136 words)

	Gary Sprake Leeds United (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It's strange really that, even though my position was goalie, Gary was never the goalie I pretended to be as a boy.
		Indeed, Gary was a Welsh International, and Leeds United mainstay for years.
		But the real reason is that England had Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton and Ray Clemmence and I pretended to be an England goalkeeper...
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /bob.dunning/sprake.htm (148 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Bizarre own goals
		Mark Crossley may have since come up with several superb imitations but Leeds goalkeeper Sprake set the standards for throwing the ball into your own net.
		Sprake attempted to throw the ball out to team-mate Willie Bell, but at the last moment changed his mind.
		Unfortunately, Sprake had already started his swinging action and hurled the ball into his own net instead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/football/2263326.stm (614 words)

	Leeds
		A poor start to the season snapped Revie's patience with his players, and Gary Sprake, Paul Reaney and Norman Hunter were brought into the first-team.
		A mistake from Gary Sprake led to the penalty that gave Everton the victory in the FA Cup semi-final, but the Fairs Cup provided some further glory.
		Gary Speed went to Everton, having needed a new challenge - or a substantial kick up his substantial arse - for two years.
	www.geocities.com /savova213/Leeds.html (12529 words)

	Liverpoolfc.tv:
		Gary Sprake had to be at his best when tipping over a rasping effort from Hunt and a goalward bound drive from Strong was, fortunately for Leeds, deflected wide for a corner.
		Their dour tactics made for a dull spectacle and opportunities to break the deadlock were limited.
		Peter Thompson went closest when forcing Sprake to save at full stretch and as the rain continued to fall heavily the final drifted into extra time for the first time since 1947.
	www.liverpoolfc.tv /news/features/history/FH8035050501-0732-3.htm (532 words)

	bobbing along:bobby gould
		In a recent Channel 4 documentary celebrating so called 'soccer hardmen' from past and present, a certain Bobby Gould was seen lashing out at mild-mannered Leeds 'keeper Gary Sprake.
		Sprake responded with a punch in the mouth that sent Gould to the floor like a sack, clutching his face like a girl.
		Some supporters have said that it's a strange move to sack a manager days before the opening of a new season but I couldn't have cared less if Ayre was sacked half an hour before the start of the Exeter game.
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	toellandback.com - Story
		December 4th saw Brian Horton's Manchester City visit Elland Road and Wallace was on target as Leeds saw off a stiff City challenge to win by the odd-goal in 5.
		Gary Speed and Brian Deane the other scorers.
		Who else but Wallace was on target but Leeds went down 2-1 to the Canaries, who earlier in the season had stunned Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup and won 4-0 at Elland Road.
	www.rivals.net /?sid=888&p=2&stid=8331089 (567 words)

	Leeds United F.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Revie's stewardship started in some difficulty; the club was in some financial difficulty and in the 1961-1962 season only a win in the final game of the season saved the club from relegation to Division 3.
		However, Revie developed a new team around the Scottish midfielder Bobby Collins, bringing through a crop of outstanding youngsters, including Norman Hunter, Paul Reaney, Gary Sprake and Billy Bremner, and acquiring winger Johnny Giles from Manchester United.
		The club finished its first season back in the first division in fourth place, and the board continued to make money available to Wilkinson, allowing the purchases of England left back Tony Dorigo, England midfielder Steve Hodge and striker Rod Wallace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leeds_United_F.C. (3395 words)

	Gary Sprake - Leeds United FC - Football-Heroes.net
		Gary Sprake - Leeds United FC - Football-Heroes.net
		(Gary is pictured above during the 3-1 defeat against Coventry City on 9/10/1971.)
		This photograph is the copyright © of George Herringshaw and sporting-heroes.net
	www.sporting-heroes.net /football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=3256 (32 words)

	eBay.co.uk - gary, Records, CDs, DVDs items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		GARY NUMAN TICKET LONDON FORUM 18 MARCH FACE VALUE
		Romain Gary - The Gasp - 1st HB
		Gary Glenn "Just Walk in my Shoes" RARE DJ Copy
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	Independent Online Edition > Comment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Alongside Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United and Arsenal, Shankly reckoned that Hull City were worthy of a place among the andeacute;lite. The book also challenges recollections of the period that have become football truths.
		Take this description of Peter Houseman's equalising goal for Chelsea in the 1970 FA Cup Final: "Gary Sprake, usually the safest of goalkeepers, had the ball covered, but allowed it to go under his diving body into the net." Whoa.
		Sprake, the very word an unhappy combination of sprain and break, is still a synonym for clumsiness.
	sport.independent.co.uk /football/comment/article141938.ece (612 words)

	BigSoccer - Classic Own Goals
		18 Sep 2002 05:17 PM Gary Sprake, back in the '60's, throwing the ball into his own goal was pretty funny, as was Lee Dixon's 40 yard backpass for Arsenal a few years ago.
		I saw on SkySports last night, that a keeper in one of the lower divisions had an own goal just like Enkleman's except it was on a back pass rather than a throw-in.
		Gary Sprake, back in the '60's, throwing the ball into his own goal was pretty funny
	www.bigsoccer.com /forum/printthread.php?t=14322&pp=40 (1788 words)

	Leeds United
		Gary is Leeds United's most played goalkeeper with 380 League games and 507 games in all competitions.
		Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles, and Madeley.
		Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones (Bates), Giles, and Madeley.
	www.ynw62.dial.pipex.com /leeds.htm (4461 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ian St. John
		That first game served the most emphatic of notices of the new boy's talent for goals, returning totals of 18, 19 and 21 goals in his first three seasons.
		He went on to score many vital goals for Liverpool, including a flying, whiplash header that he hammered past Leeds United's Gary Sprake to win the FA Cup in 1965.
		Like the whole of Bill Shankly's first great team, Ian St. John was at his peak during the mid-1960s.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ian_St._John (332 words)

	Page 1
		Team manager Don Revie had introduced several teenage players into the side and this injection of youth had triggered off a great improvement, which saw them finish in fifth place in Division Two, as well as lay the 10 year bogey of never winning an F.A. Cup-tie before going out in round five.
		It's interesting to list the eleven players that were named in the match programme for that game :- 1 Sprake, 2 Reaney, 3 Bell, 4 Bremner, 5 Charlton, 6 Hunter, 7 Weston, 8 Lawson, 9 Storrie, 10 Collins, 11 Johanneson.
		Willie Bell and Jack Charlton were both in their mid-twenties, with centre-half Charlton the more experienced of the two and a potentially good, if rather erratic, player.
	www.twelveatthetop.uku.co.uk /page1.htm (369 words)

	The Ian Callaghan interview, October 2000
		The Kop of course, had become famous too by this time and Ian Callaghan was often amazed to hear the chants and songs spring up seemingly spontaneously from the terraces.
		The classic example was the famous Gary Sprake incident, when the hapless Leeds United keeper threw the ball into his own net.
		"Gary went to throw the ball out to their left back, a guy called Willie Bell, and Gary saw me move up closer to Bell in anticipation.
	www.shankly.com /callaghanint.htm (2546 words)

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		Gary L Matthews - The Challenge of Baha'u'llah - PB
		Gary Moore 7" PS Story Of The Blues 1992 Virgin ex / ex
		Gary Moore Victims Of The Future World Tour Programme
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	CPFC BBS - Goalkeeping Blunders
		I'm sorry, but the best has to be the Gary Sprake "slip through hands" from a John Sewell hopeful up and under.
		Everyone groaned as Sprake only had to jump a little to catch the ball with no-one near him.
		I haven't seen the Gary Sprake one (though it sounds like a cracker).
	www.cpfc.org /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1853 (1043 words)

	Independent, The (London): WHERE ARE THEY NOW? DAVID HARVEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By nature, goalkeepers are different; but David Harvey would seem unconventional even among his peers.
		While many Leeds players from the 1970s still haunt their old stamping ground, the man who succeeded Gary Sprake could not have left his past much further behind.
		Harvey, now 47, lives on the island of Sanday in the Orkneys, where he is restoring a 150-year-old stone cottage on a 10-acre plot he shares with his wife, June, and five children, plus various cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry, with the sea 200 yards from his front door.
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	Football365's Favourite Spectacular Own Goals - Football365.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gary Sprake's Throw-In Fans of Man United and Liverpool can rest easy in the knowledge that even Roy Carroll and Jerzy Dudek wouldn't manage to pull this one off.
		In 1967, Leeds' Welsh 'keeper' Gary Sprake attempted to throw the ball out to one of his players.
		It's difficult to explain how it somehow ended up in the net, but the look on teammate Jackie Charlton's face suggested that Sprake was going to have to answer the question very soon.
	www.football365.com /features/story_140802.shtml (741 words)

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