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Article: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? DAVID HARVEY
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1995
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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.
"As a boy I loved the country and I wanted to be a
horticulturalist," the Leeds-born former Scottish international
said, recalling gloomily how, at 15, he took a ...