Gordon Galley

{{Short description|English footballer (1930–2021)}}

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| name = Gordon Galley

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| fullname = Gordon Walter Galley{{Hugman|6980|accessdate=7 July 2015}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|2|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Worksop, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|1|19|1930|2|4|df=y}}

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| position = Outside left

| youthyears1 = 1945–1947 | youthclubs1 = Sheffield Wednesday

| years1 = 1947–1948 | clubs1 = Sheffield Wednesday | caps1 = 0 | goals1 = 0

| years2 = 1948–1952 | clubs2 = Darlington | caps2 = 60 | goals2 = 12

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Gordon Walter Galley (4 February 1930 – 19 January 2021) was an English professional footballer who scored 12 goals from 60 appearances in the Football League playing as an outside left for Darlington in the years following the Second World War. He was also on the books of Sheffield Wednesday, but never played for them in the League.{{cite web |title=Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10 |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/darlington/darlington.html |work=Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=7 July 2015}} Teammate Baden Powell described him as "a lanky, tricky sort of player":{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/9762789.Baden_Baden/ |title=Baden Baden |first=Mike |last=Amos |newspaper=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=12 June 2012 |accessdate=7 July 2015}} After a transfer request produced no offers, Galley joined the police, from which he retired in 1982 after 30 years' service.{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/8209409.Gordon_in_search_of_his_fellow_Quakers/ |title=Gordon in search of his fellow Quakers |first=Mike |last=Amos |newspaper=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=9 June 2010 |accessdate=7 July 2015}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/touching-moment-90-year-old-3808442 |title=The touching moment a 90-year-old was surprised on his birthday by the police |first=Matt |last=Jarram |website=Nottinghamshire Live |date=4 February 2020 |access-date=17 January 2022}} He died on 19 January 2021 at the age of 90.{{cite web |url=https://www.durhamnarpo.org.uk/2021/01/death-of-retired-police-officer-pc.html |title=Death of retired Police Officer: PC Gordon Galley |publisher=Durham NARPO |date=29 January 2021 |access-date=17 January 2022}}

Galley's younger brothers Maurice and John Galley also played in the Football League.{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34690531.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924192835/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34690531.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |title=Claimed the left half position as his very own |newspaper=Loughborough Echo |date=24 May 2013 |via=Highbeam Research}}{{cite web |url=https://www.enfa.co.uk/playersearch.php |title=Player search: Galley, GW (Gordon) |website=English National Football Archive (ENFA) |access-date=14 April 2024 |url-access=subscription}}