David Gregory (footballer, born 1970)

David Spencer Gregory (born 23 January 1970) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

He joined Colchester United in 1995 and spent seven years at Layer Road, making 226 league appearances and scoring 19 goals.

Gregory helped the U's to their first league promotion for 22 years in 1998 when he stepped up to put Colchester ahead from the spot in the Third Division playoff final.

Gregory featured regularly in the first team until he cracked a bone in his foot playing against Port Vale in March 2002 and failed to recover fitness by the summer break.

[2] After his retirement from playing, David joined the Colchester United media department as a Communications and PR Officer[3] and, in April 2013, he was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame having scored the winning penalty in the 1998 Wembley play-off final.