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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:24 - Aug 25 by Freddies_Ears
RIP, Gerry. The voice of Match of the Week, which always seemed to feature Lincoln v Hull... but it was one of only 2 football programmes each week.
Used to watch Ipswich or Colchester on Saturday afternoon, play football on Sunday mornings and then get home to watch Match of the Week in the afternoon. They did have some strange fixture schedules at times.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:29 - Aug 25 with 1841 views
Was the main voice on local football when I was growing up. Always seemed to be commentating on Town on a Sunday afternoon highlights show. They don’t make them like him nowadays.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:30 - Aug 25 with 1833 views
This is so sad, not least of course for his family but for his football family for whom he provided the commentary for many of us in our formative town years. Perhaps my favourite moment is when he collared SBR during the great UEFA run as the game was starting causing him to miss a goal. It went something like "Oh and Ipswich have scored!". SBR - "Thanks Gerry. I missed it"!!! I'll see if I can find it.
Edit: Found it!!! From 0:40 just after Wark's pen.
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Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:31 - Aug 25 with 1803 views
As well as being the voice of Anglia TV’s football, he’d also present Wheels with Kevin Piper and host stock car programmes from Foxhall as one of the featured sports.
P 1162, W 506, D 298, L 358, F 1749, A 1435
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R.I.P Gerry, On match day always used to take his lunch and do his homework on the away team at the Centre Spot Restaurant in what is now the Cobbold Stand.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:34 - Aug 25 with 1780 views
A very familiar voice despite the vast majority of his commentating being before I was either born or aware of football.
Mainly associated with local highlights from the seventies and eighties, the only thing I can hear in my head from one of his rare live matches is “oh what an error, how on earth did that happen?”.
There may have been better commentators around at the time, but none of them associated with a great period in Ipswich history like Gerry was. The TV equivalent of Bryan Knights.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:49 - Aug 25 with 1602 views
Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 14:34 - Aug 25 by gainsboroughblue
RIP. One of the greats.
A great excuse to post this also.
Is that a smile? Almost.
I remember him walking along that away end at Southend with our fans chanting “Sunderland, Sunderland, Sunderland…” at him ahead of Norwich’s semi final defeat against Sunderland the following day. Some from that era may disagree, from what I hear he seemed quite neutral.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 15:35 - Aug 25 with 1273 views
Very good commentator, did the so-called minor games in a couple of World Cup Finals, always sounded like he was enjoying the game with some light-hearted quips where appropriate
When aged 9-11 and living on Broke Hall Estate, a group of us who went to games would congregate in one of our houses on a Sunday to relive the excitement of the goals we had scored, which we celebrated by jumping about.
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Met Gerry Harrison at Mick McNeil soccer camp on 18:08 - Aug 25 with 572 views
He came as a guest speaker to the Mick McNeil soccer camp at Nacton village school. He gave a great talk to all us young lads on his job. Lovely fella. Jason Dozzell was at that particular camp. He was brilliant even then at 10 years old.
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Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 19:17 - Aug 25 with 359 views
Farewell then, Gerry Harrison on 17:50 - Aug 25 by DJR
There was one season when Hull nearly got promoted to the old First Division and they were on it a lot.
I always thought it was stretching it a bit to regard Hull as having anything to do with "Anglia".
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Hull got it's own tv transmitter so iit's inhabitants could watch the programming of Yorkshire Tv. It was such a strong signal that people living in Hunstanton received it also rather than Anglia tv.
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