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WANDERERS legend Roy Greaves is recovering in hospital after suffering a mild heart attack.
The 66-year-old former midfielder was taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary early on Friday morning and was transferred to Royal Bolton Hospital on Monday.
Doctors decided to fit two stents to aid Greaves’ recovery.
The grandfather, who was born in Farnworth and now lives in Westhoughton, will be allowed home tomorrow. Doctors have told him he will require further surgery in six weeks time to have a valve replaced.
Greaves joined Bolton in 1965, aged 18, and played 575 games in all competitions during a mammoth 15-year spell before jetting off to play in America.
He sometimes played as a striker and netted 66 times for the Whites.
Now, Greaves runs a wholesale beer company based in Bolton.
Former Wanderers striker John Thomas was just starting his first spell with the club when Greaves left. Thomas, aged 54, who is close friends with Greaves, said he had visited him twice in hospital and has given messages of support to Greaves’s wife, Barbara.
He said: “All the ex players and everyone associated with the club are thinking of Roy at this difficult time. We hope he can come home on Friday. He is a real fighter and so many people will be wishing him good health.”
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WANDERERS legend Roy Greaves is recovering in hospital after suffering a mild heart attack.
The 66-year-old former midfielder was taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary early on Friday morning and was transferred to Royal Bolton Hospital on Monday.
Doctors decided to fit two stents to aid Greaves’ recovery.
The grandfather, who was born in Farnworth and now lives in Westhoughton, will be allowed home tomorrow. Doctors have told him he will require further surgery in six weeks time to have a valve replaced.
Greaves joined Bolton in 1965, aged 18, and played 575 games in all competitions during a mammoth 15-year spell before jetting off to play in America.
He sometimes played as a striker and netted 66 times for the Whites.
Now, Greaves runs a wholesale beer company based in Bolton.
Former Wanderers striker John Thomas was just starting his first spell with the club when Greaves left. Thomas, aged 54, who is close friends with Greaves, said he had visited him twice in hospital and has given messages of support to Greaves’s wife, Barbara.
He said: “All the ex players and everyone associated with the club are thinking of Roy at this difficult time. We hope he can come home on Friday. He is a real fighter and so many people will be wishing him good health.”
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