LEGEND . . . Former Galway United star John Herrick who will be inducted into the club's new Legends scheme at Friday night's final game of the season against UCD at Terryland Park.

If our nearest neighbours became 'more like the Irish, than the Irish themselves' then surely John Herrick's epitaph will be that of a man who became 'more like a Galway man than the Galwegians themselves'.

The Cork native won all the honours available in a league of Ireland career that included service at Cork Hibernian, Shamrock Rovers, Limerick, Drogheda and eventually Galway Rovers.

On Friday night he will become the latest former player to be inducted into the Galway United Legends scheme and will be presented to the crowd at half-time in the game against UCD at Terryland Park.

An extended interview with John will appear in the match programme and on the Galway United website. He was a well respected full-back, equally able at left or right full and also played at centre-back and mid-field. The tough tackling but skilful defender won three caps for Ireland in the early seventies and was a regular member of the squad between 1971 and 1973.

He represented his country in the European Championship against Austria in 1972, on tour of South America against Chile the same year and in a World Cup qualifier against France in 1973.

Herrick played for Irish and League of Ireland selections on many occasions and played alongside stars of the English game such as Giles, Treacy, Givens and Conroy as well as League of Ireland players of the calibre of Finucane, McConville, O'Neill and Leech.

"At that stage you would often come across Irish Internationals in league of Ireland matches," said Herrick.

He went on to manage the club and had the distinction of being the last Galway Rovers manager and the first manager of Galway United!

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