Robert Harvey (born 23 May 1955)^[1] is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward. He played for Clyde during the 1970s, making 72 appearances (13 goals) in the Scottish Football League. He had played in an under-18 Schoolboy international for Scotland while a pupil at Holy Cross High School in Hamilton^[2] and later played at Junior level for Bellshill Athletic after leaving Clyde.^[3]

After retiring from playing, Harvey retained an interest in football. A supporter of Celtic^[4] raised in Rutherglen, he had a biography of Bobby Murdoch – from the same town and considered one of its finest sporting products, as well as one of the club's best ever players – published in 2010.^[5] Harvey also published a website inviting other residents of the town to nominate 'Rutherglen's Greatest Player' (Murdoch won the vote)^[6] and compiled the 15,000 responses in another book published in 2012.^[7] He also became a leading volunteer and contributor for the local Football Memories groups^[4] (an initiative to use sporting recollections to help combat dementia,^[8] a condition which afflicted his mother),^[4] and has helped to publicise the sport of walking football in the Glasgow area.^[9]

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