{"id":581601,"date":"2026-04-02T22:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:53:13","slug":"parramatta-eels-legend-neville-glover-dies-aged-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581601\/","title":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels legend Neville Glover dies aged 70"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parramatta Eels<\/a> legend Neville Glover has died, aged 70.<\/p>\n

The loveable larrikin played over 100 games for the Eels and finished his career at Penrith, before having a successful career as a police prosecutor for many years.<\/p>\n

The bearded winger will forever be remembered as the man who dropped the ball with the line open in the 1976 grand final against Manly.<\/p>\n

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Eels legend Neville Glover.\u00a0Fairfax Media<\/p>\n

Had he caught the ball and scored, the Eels may well have won their first premiership – it’s something we will never know.<\/p>\n

Glover always took that dubious claim to fame with good humour and was a fan favourite who spent seven seasons at the old Cumberland Oval, scoring over 50 tries.<\/p>\n

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A local junior, he overcame that infamous setback in 1976 to play for both New South Wales and Australia two years later.<\/p>\n

“He was a lovely bloke and he was Parra through and through – very popular among the group,” Eels premiership winner Peter Wynn told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

“It’s a sad day for the club.”<\/p>\n

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Eels legend Neville Glover.\u00a0Fairfax Media<\/p>\n

Glover was at the Eels when they won their first two premierships in 1981 and 1982, but ironically was not in either grand final team.<\/p>\n

In 1983, he moved to Penrith for one final season before retiring – and the Eels again won the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels legend Neville Glover has died, aged 70. The loveable larrikin played over 100 games for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-581601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}