Player Database: Garry Birtles

By: Tony Hamilton
Date: 27/07/2002

Well known for setting up the winning goal in the 1979 European Cup, GB was recruited by Alan Buckley to play up front and went on to score a hattrick against Wrexham in the last game of that promotion winning season. Gary Birtles now hosts a phone-in on a Nottingham radio station (century FM I think).

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