José Gallego

José Augustin "Joe" Gallego (8 April 1923 – 17 September 2006), was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside forward for various clubs in the English Football League in the 1940s and 1950s.

Football career Gallego was born in Errenteria in the Basque Country in Spain. His father was a Spanish government worker who fled to England as a refugee in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Gallego arrived in England as a 14-year-old along with his three sisters and his younger brother, Antonio (Tony), who was also to have a short career as a professional footballer, as a goalkeeper with Norwich City.

The family settled in Cambridge where José first played football with Cambridge Town in 1942. In 1945, he was joined by Antonio in the Cambridge Town side, now coached by former West Ham United, Southampton and England forward Vic Watson and in 1946 the team won the East Anglian Cup.

In the summer of 1948, he moved to fellow Second Division club, Southampton. Although he scored on his debut for the reserve team, he made only one first-team appearance when he replaced the injured Wilf Grant at outside-left in a 3–0 defeat at Barnsley on 2 October 1948. Gallego was the seventh player that season to have worn the No. 11 shirt, before Grant returned for the next match. Although his debut was described as "most promising" and "deserving another try", Gallego suffered from a cracked ankle after being given a "hard time" by the Barnsley full-back and decided to quit full-time professional football.