Bob Harrop
Robert W. "Bob" Harrop ( born August 25, 1936 in Manchester, † November 8, 2007 in Margate ) was an English football player and coach.
Career
Harrop came the age of 15 after completing his school career at Manchester United and won in 1954 in the rotor row on the side of Wilf McGuinness and Eddie Colman the FA Youth Cup. In the same year he was awarded a professional contract and made it into the episode until the England youth team. After the plane crash of Munich- Riem on 6 February 1958, when a large part of the first team of Manchester died or was seriously injured, he was used repeatedly in the rest of the season. He made his debut in the replay of the FA Cup quarter-final against West Bromwich Albion, as they moved through a 1-0 win in the semi-finals. Its position in the rotor row was mostly occupied by the debtor shortly after the accident, Stan Crowther, so Harrop was not used in the other cup matches still in the final of the European Champions' Cup.
In November 1959, he joined together with the goalkeeper Gordon Clayton for a transfer fee of 4,000 pounds to Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division. In 1961 he left Tranmere again after the team was relegated to the Fourth Division with 115 goals against, and continued his career in non -League football continued. With FC Margate he rose 1962/63 and 1966/67, from Division One to the Premier Division of the Southern League. Five times he reached with the team the main round of the FA Cup and won multiple local cup competitions. After a total of 533 official matches in eight years where he mostly acted as a center half, left Harrop Margate in 1969 in the hope of finding a job as player-coach. This initially did not fulfill, so he continued his playing career in the Southern League Division One at Ashford Town, whose rise in season 1969/70 he was team internally awarded Player of the Year. From 1972 played Harrop as team captain in Canterbury City, where he also held a function in the coaching staff. 1975 Harrop rose at Canterbury to main responsible Players Coaches on, left the club but after his release in April 1977. After a brief stop at Ashford Town, he returned in August 1977 back to Margate and completed for the club another 31 Official matches, the third when he time with the club to promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern League realized. As promised by the club side items he was denied as coach of the reserve team, he left again in the season break Margate, whose record player he is with 564 duty stakes (26 goals) until today.
Harrop had his career after finish at FC Ramsgate in the Kent League, where he took over the coach position in March 1979, but after a weak season 1979/80 resigned. He then played even in unterklassigen amateur football, served several times as manager of reserve teams and managed at the local level games as a referee. He died 71 years old in November 2007.