“Harrington made a most favourable impression as outside-left and when better served will make a strong link to the forward line,” said the Liverpool Echo following his début, but he only managed three more League appearances for the ‘Reds’. Harrington, who had served as a groom in the Royal Artillery in France in World War I, had begun his working life as a telegraph boy; after the war, he was back with the GPO in the Sorting Office before being employed as a Stock Exchange runner for a prominent Liverpool broker. He scored for Wigan Borough against Southport on 28 October 1922 and joined Southport three months later but, though ever-present until the end of the season, he managed just one goal. Joining Crewe, he played in both the early season games against Southport in 1923 and returned to Haig Avenue as a member of Mold’s F.A. Cup side two years later. Like a number of players of the period, he went to the USA to play for New York Giants. His work with the ATC in the second war brought him into contact with Bert Trautmann as a POW. He took a residential hotel in Yorkshire, worked for the Public Assistance, and later became Housing Manager in the Local Authority Housing Department in Huyton. He recovered well from a leg amputation and lived on another ten years until his death in Whiston Hospital at 81.

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The Sandgrounders: The Complete League History of Southport F. C., by Michael Braham and Geoff Wilde (Palatine Books, 1995). ISBN 978-1-874181-14-9