Official Site of Crystal Palace · Nov 18, 2020
Gary Phillips: Crafting Palace’s first Academy goalkeeper since 1978
When Gary Phillips began life in football, he rubbed shoulders with Cyrille Regis and Bryan Robson on a daily basis. Aged just 18 at the foot of his 20-year career, Phillips couldn’t have been better placed to start a journey that would lead to coaching at a Premier League club.
He would work under Ray Clemence and Bob Wilson in future jobs and build a post-playing career at teams across the country.
It started, however, with “you went in goal and they’d fire balls at you.”