On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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I thought I had to protect mum, so I would put on a brave face, then literally curl up in a ball and lie on the floor of the shower sobbing,’ he said. The centrepiece of the tapes is the most important game in the modern history of Manchester United, the 1990 FA Cup final.

The effect on his son due to his untimely death and the honesty the author gets from the family, although sad is important for the reader to understand. He probably never thought he would have had that opportunity because he’d fallen out with the manager at Luton and hadn’t played for the previous year. If you chipped him in training he’d chase you and try to fight you,’ said Garry Thompson, a room-mate in the early years at Coventry.Yet he told me that back home in France, he has a blue Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible and a Harley-Davidson. Maybe I never asked enough, but he was a quiet bloke at home and didn’t say too much about his connection to West Ham, and it was only towards the end that I found out that everyone in that family going back generations supported West Ham, and how he used to be a regular in the Chicken Run. I was grateful for his example from a distance as I developed into a decent-ish but loud goalkeeper in the local area. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.

If the manager wanted to make a specific point to either of them or give Andrei a bit of a b---------, they would be taken into a side room with the Prof, and if the manager began shouting, George would raise his voice with him. He must have known he wasn’t playing when Schmeichel was there, so he was going back to fight as number two with Gary Walsh; he must have known that.Les, as we’ll go on to mention in this piece I am sure, was a bit of a cultural architect at Old Trafford – his demanding style certainly fitted what Alex Ferguson needed as he slowly turned the oil-tanker round.

Joe Sealey once dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps as a goalkeeper - now he fancies owning a football club. Although he kept a famously low profile off the pitch, on it Sealey Sr was known as Mr Angry, famously almost coming to blows with Manchester United’s physio when he sustained what later emerged to be a serious knee injury in the 1991 League Cup final, and Joe says he inherited his dad’s character, and but for injury, could have followed him to play at a decent standard.

Eventually, Nicole ‘saved his life’ after dragging him out of his hotel binges and getting him sober. Joe remembers going to every match at Old Trafford - and of course the reaction to his dad following the part he played in United’s 1990 FA Cup Final win over Crystal Palace - famously Sir Alex’s first trophy for the Reds. REVEALED: Manchester United stars are ANGRY with Marcus Rashford over his latest lapse of discipline after.

Despite his personal turmoil, Joe started to rebuild his life, and became a sports agent representing a host of big names in football and boxing. Sealey begged a lift from photographer Lawrence Lustig and, as they crawled round the North Circular Road, he wound down a window to wind up a nonplussed United fan. I know I started supporting them after they were winning on TV in the Littlewoods Cup semi-final – quite possibly the first time I’d seen Sealey play, but then as a football badger already at that point, there is every chance I was aware of every goalie in Division One. Thirteen years after Sealey died at 43, his son Joe was handed a box of cassettes his dad had recorded. In the replay, United’s Lee Martin scored the only goal and Sealey kept out Palace as they tried to unsettle him.When I was injured, I remember thinking my life was over – I had no education, no idea how to do anything else,’ he explained. I said yes to West Ham for two reasons – because I wanted to live at home, and because I knew my experience training with dad had already been better than what I would get at other clubs.