FOOTBALL
Lessons from a life in sport: Neville Southall
Former Wales keeper on his love of theatre and getting spat at in the face by Norwich fans
Sunday June 20 2021,
Southall says abuse from the fans would always be a welcome boost on a bad day
Where it all began
We lived on the Great Orme miles from anyone. There was nothing to do – three television channels in black and white – so me and my brothers played football. My older one was too big to go in goal, my younger one too small, so it left me. Our dad was a Manchester United fan but had come back from the war with one lung and a bullet in his leg.
My breakthrough moment
It wasn’t like that. I was a hod carrier earning £3 a week while playing for Conwy Town before moving to Winsford after a trial. I felt comfortable at whatever level I played at and then I signed for Bury for less than I was getting hod carrying. I just thought I’d give it a go.
The coach I looked up to
Wilf McGuinness at Bury set me targets and we’d spend a lot of time on our own training. Everton’s Colin Harvey was a grumpy git but for him winning became an addiction. If his daughter beat him at tiddlywinks he wouldn’t speak to her for a week.
Football never got any better than
Beating Bayern Munich in the European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final in 1985. It’s a myth that fans sway games but they did that night and we wouldn’t have done it without them. It was brutal, funny and an evening that summed up the city of Liverpool.
My favourite ground
Upton Park. I loved it that the fans were on top of you. I liked the abuse too: if I was feeling shit, it always cheered me up.
My least favourite ground
Carrow Road. My perception of Norwich was clouded from the moment during my first warm-up when two fans spat in my face. I dislocated my finger there. I spilt one from 25 yards and didn’t realise it was stuck in a puddle behind me until someone put it in. And they gave us Mike Walker . . .
Funniest moment from my career
John Ebbrell having diarrhoea at Bristol City and running in a really strange way to keep it all in. And at Chelsea. Howard Kendall telling Tony Thomas to warm up before going on. Ten minutes later Tony was still sitting there and Howard was furious he hadn’t moved. “But boss,” he said, “I’m still in my suit as you didn’t pick me . . .”
I learnt most from
I couldn’t take being injured. I had no patience and rushed myself back, usually after a row with the physio. Another
Phil
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Thank you,
A Dad.
Well, toucan play at that game.
Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.
They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.
I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.
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She said apple-lutely
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This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.
The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!
Cred once again my sis wants credit lol
Keep in mind, my son is 4 years old, so everything is an original to him.
I had to work late into the evening yesterday, and he was just going to bed when I got home. I had left home for the office nearly 14 hours prior, had a long day, lots of meetings, traffic, etc.
When I walked through the door, I was exhausted, run down, and starving. My wife hugged me and asked how my day was, and I replied, "Done. It was a good day, but has got me exhausted. I just want to grab a bite and go to bed. I'm hungry."
From my son's bedroom, I hear him shout, "Hi Hungry! Nice to meet you!"
Not only did it make me laugh, but I completely forgot about how hungry and tired I was. I went to his bedroom, and we laughed together about it. It was exactly what I needed.
Edit: Thanks for all the awards, kind strangers! I'll let my son know y'all enjoyed his joke too!
I heard parents named their children lance a lot.
First post please don't kill me
Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!
Japan.
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second hand stores!
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10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too
A buck-an-ear!
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Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!
He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.
and not:
Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:
Riceless
That was the punchline
David Beckham has leant on his connections in Manchester to recruit for his Inter Miami project
By Steve Bremer, in Miami. 18 April 2021, 13:14
David Beckham’s playing career was packed full of breathtaking highs yet success as an owner has proved harder to find.
The former England captain entered uncharted waters in 2014 when he announced his intention to start a team in Major League Soccer and it has been far from plain sailing since.
His issues around finding and funding a new stadium are well known. Yet for all the headaches off the pitch for Beckham and his Inter Miami co-owners, who include Masayoshi Son, one of the richest men in Japan, a more pressing question has emerged as the Florida side begin their second season in MLS.
Are they any good?
There is little point in building a stadium that becomes the envy of the league if you cannot back it up with results. Beckham knows this and it is why the former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder has seized the reins and gone back to what he knows.
A wretched first campaign under the tutelage of Diego Alonso, the Uruguayan former Valencia striker, saw the club lose their first five games and finish with just seven wins to their name. They scraped a play-off place yet a comprehensive defeat in Nashville soon followed.
Beckham, marooned in the UK as the coronavirus pandemic paralysed the globe, was far from impressed and, once able to return to South Florida last Christmas, the 45-year-old ripped up the script and started again.
Based in downtown Miami in a plush apartment block, Beckham has been in daily attendance at the club’s impressive training facility, which has doubled up as a vaccination centre since the turn of the year. He needed to act - and did so with impressive vigour.
Plan A had been to ingratiate the team with the sizeable Hispanic fan base with the appointment of a South American coach. That failed, so instead it was time for plan B: a boy from Bury - Beckham’s old mate Phil Neville. With Chester-born Ryan Shawcross joining Beckham and Neville in the tropical state, Inter Miami 2.0 has a distinctly Mancunian flavour.
"The support David has given me has been so good and I think the players and staff recognise that," Neville said. "I am just excited about getting started."
Alonso had been sacked along with spo
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Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"
I did not know.
So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"
So proud.
Feyonce
He was so brave and even tried to encourage us, the family around him, with his last breaths. He kept whispering to us to Be Positive.
He said, “Change the batteries in your hearing aid”.
She was pretty mad when I only picked seven up
So far no one has given me a straight answer.
Alzheimer, Grandma, it's Alzheimer.
