: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:25 pm
Barry Clegg 2nd wrote:
Cant remember who it was but an ex player was interviewed on the BBC and came out with the same story. Im not 100 % sure but i think Harris has been quoted somewhere saying this as well when interviewed regards to the film.
Might have been the player who was interviewed by Dave Hadfield, and it is repeated in his book "Up and Over", who said that Harris tagged along with the Wakefield team (I expect alcohol was involved) and turned up at Wembley in 1962. Harris was in the dressing room after the game and asked the player if he could have his shirt, and the player agreed, provided that he could have Harris's fancy sheepskin coat. When Wakey got to Wembley in 1963, Harris knew that the player involved had three children, so he turned up in the dressing room with the 1962 shirt so that the player would have one to give to each of his three children, to which the player responded that he was pleased but Harris couldn't have his coat back.
(Another Harris story, off-topic, is that he lived out his life as a permanent resident of the Savoy hotel and they used to put him in a corner, out of the way, to eat. When he was carried out on a stretcher for the final time, as he passed the dining room, he supposedly sat up on the stretcher and bellowed "it was the food!")
