Joe Harper

He comes from a staunch Greenock family and he married a girl who lived in the same street as me in Johnstone. Wife's cousin lives in Aberdeen and her man told me that when he played for the sheep everybody called him Pints Harper.
 
Thats right. I remember McLeods daft reason was that he thought it gave a better balanced squad
His thinking was that he already had 2 target men strikers in Jordan and Johnstone so wanted someone who could come in for Dalglish and play alongside said target men.
 
He now lives in Pitmedden, small village 16 miles North of Aberdeen. Heard he was recently recovering from COVID.
 
"Harper's a wino" was the cry at Cappielow after he'd moved on.
Not sure what he drank but he was a (as they said back in the day) a prolific striker.
 
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