Neville Southall: The Binman Chronicles

Produktdetails

Verlag

deCoubertin Books

Erschienen

2012

Sprache

English

Seiten

330

Infos

330 Seiten
240 mm

ISBN

978-0-9564313-8-7

Kurztext / Annotation

For more than sixteen years Southall kept goal for Everton and Wales, becoming his club
and country's greatest servant, as well as Everton's most decorated player. Uncompromising,
unorthodox and often unkempt, Southall's career followed an incredible trajectory:
from football-mad binman, to the greatest goalkeeper in the world in the space of a few
years.

Neville Southall was born in Llandudno in 1958. He left school at 16 and worked as a hod carrier, binman and waiter, while rising through the ranks of amateur and non-league football. His breakthrough in 1980 came with Bury, and a year later he joined Howard Kendall's Everton. Over a 16-year Goodison career Southall would go on to become the club's most decorated player, twice winning the League Championship and FA Cup, as
well as the 1985 European Cup Winners Cup. He was awarded Footballer Writers' Player of
the Year in 1985, an MBE in 1995 for services to football and is Wales's most capped player.

Langtext

Considered among the greatest goalkeepers of all time and one of English football's defining figures over a career that spanned more than two decades, Neville Southall has for the first time decided to tell his extraordinary life story. Uncompromising, unorthodox and often unkempt, Southall's career followed an incredible trajectory: from football-mad binman, to the greatest goalkeeper in the world in the space of a few years. Southall's amazing story is the ultimate antidote to the dull stereotype of the modern footballer.

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