[2] He was reported to have chosen Hull because wartime bomb damage meant there was no housing available for him and his wife local to rival suitors Wigan Athletic and Everton.
[4] He was used less in 1947–48, but re-established himself in the side the following season, missing only one match as Hull won the Third Division North title and reached the quarter-final of the FA Cup, in which they lost 1–0 to Manchester United.
[4][2] He was ever-present for his first two years with Bury,[5] and then missed a few weeks with injury, but at the start of the 1953–54 season, found his place under threat from Don May and Tommy Daniel and was transfer-listed at his request.
[4] Interest from Liverpool came to nothing, despite the nominal fee asked,[7] and Greenhalgh left both Bury and the Football League in 1955 to spend a season with Wigan Athletic of the Lancashire Combination.
[16] In 1990, he was attached to the coaching staff of the Dutch Football Association,[17] and later that year he was used by Port Vale manager John Rudge as a scout in the north-east of England.