Bobby Harvey (footballer)

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'''Robert Harvey''' (born 23 May 1955)<ref>[https://ift.tt/2KIyMMy Opposition player Bobby Harvey], London Hearts Supporters Club</ref> is a Scottish former [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Forward (association football)|forward]]. He played for [[Clyde F.C.|Clyde]] during the 1970s, making 72 appearances (13 goals) in the [[Scottish Football League]]. He had played in an under-18 Schoolboy international for Scotland while a pupil at [[Holy Cross High School, Hamilton|Holy Cross High School]] in [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2s8XkIl Wee Scots in dour battle] Evening Times, 13 May 1973 (via Partick Thistle History Archive)</ref> and later played at [[Scottish Junior Football Association|Junior level]] for [[Bellshill Athletic]] after leaving Clyde.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2pEQSrr Clyde: 1946/47 - 2013/14], Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database</ref>

After retiring from playing, Harvey retained an interest in football. A supporter of [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]]<ref name=trigger/> raised in the town of [[Rutherglen]], he had a biography of [[Bobby Murdoch]] - from the same town and considered one of its finest sporting products, as well as one of the club's best ever players - published in 2010.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OsdsMc Books - Bobby Murdoch: The Bhoy from Rutherglen (2010)], The Celtic Wiki</ref> Harvey also published a website inviting other residents of the town to nominate 'Rutherglen's Greatest Player' (Murdoch won the vote)<ref>[https://ift.tt/2s6NCGg Home], Rutherglen's Greatest Player</ref> and compiled the 15,000 responses in another book published in 2012.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2qDueA6 Book details greatest footballers to come from Rutherglen], Daily Record, 29 August 2012</ref> He also became a leading volunteer and contributor for the local ''Football Memories'' groups<ref name=trigger>[https://ift.tt/2D89Hq0 How old Celtic photos trigger so many powerful memories], The Celtic Star, 18 June 2018</ref> (an initiative to use sporting recollections help combat [[dementia]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/V1yxAf About the project], Football Memories</ref> - a condition which afflicted his mother),<ref name=trigger/> and has helped to publicise the sport of [[walking football]] in the Glasgow area.<ref>[https://ift.tt/35k43Ny Alzheimer Scotland creates walking football league], [[Alzheimer's Society|Alzheimer Scotland]], 27 June 2019</ref>

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[[Category:1955 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Scottish footballers]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Rutherglen]]
[[Category:Association football forwards]]
[[Category:Clyde F.C. players]]
[[Category:Scottish writers]]
[[Category:Bellshill Athletic F.C. players]]
[[Category:Scottish Football League players]]
[[Category:Scottish Junior Football Association players]]
[[Category:Scotland youth international footballers]]

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