On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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Sealey joined Third Division club Leyton Orient in 1996, and was their first-choice goalkeeper from the start of 1996–97. Losing my dad was the biggest and hardest thing that has ever happened to me, it took me nearly a decade to get over it, and I only really did because of Nicole. Joe’s father, Les, had been Manchester United’s goalkeeper but had died of a heart attack in 2001 at the age of 43. Nowadays if you get a knock on the head you can’t play for two weeks, so it was a different era, different time. British football's season of SHAME: Amid violence at West Brom vs Wolves and yobs making monkey gestures and.

Marcus Rashford has 'taken responsibility' for missing Man United training just hours after being spotted in. I had to walk to Loughton station, which was about a mile, to go to Stratford, from there to Chadwell Heath, then another mile walk to the training ground. I became a football agent and I became quite successful at that, but my life internally was not good. It wasn’t hereditary, there was no illness, he’d had checks the previous year for insurance, it was a fluke. In them, Sealey frankly discusses his career, most notably his time working under Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford where he reveals much of what went on in the changing room.

Unlike most football biographies, this is tale of true emotion, if you are a United fan it brings to life one of the most important eras of the club.

Frustratingly for West Ham fans, the tapes were recorded before Sealey had pitched up at Upton Park.Marcus Smith leaves training on CRUTCHES and is sent for a scan on a suspected leg injury just five days.

On Days Like These is his third book and follows his acclaimed biography of Marcelo Bielsa, The Quality of Madness , which was shortlisted for The Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year. United signed Sealey on a permanent basis, and he was their regular goalkeeper throughout the 1990–91 season, keeping goal in their League Cup Final defeat to Sheffield Wednesday (in which he was injured, but refused to leave the field) [3] and the Cup Winners' Cup Final victory over Barcelona the following month.Sealey was born in East London, Bethnal Green – one of many talented players to come out of East London but not start their life at West Ham.

George, 30, also had shoulder and back injuries, left West Ham, had a trial at Crystal Palace and played briefly for non-League Thurrock. There is no explanation of how this devolped which given the circumstances of how the came together is a shame, obviously the author was restricted by the content of the cassette recordings. He conceded a penalty, cleaning out Steve Hodge and Nigel Clough scored – Forest went on to win 3-1. He’d retired from football and wasn’t doing a lot, he’d just bought some property down towards Southend and he’d gone there to do some renovations.Even though I started making a lot of money young, it was actually irrelevant because I was so unhappy. Both admit they fell out of love with football after their father died — a shame, because football will always love characters like Les Sealey, who lived for the game and flourished in its unique environment. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I don't think you'll ever see that again, with that type of injury, anyone doing anything like that.