This 2story, 1,230. Instead it's divided, and that's no good to anybody. I started with the LGBT stuff because if the kids at school ask a question I wouldnt have a clue. "I want to see politicians having proper debate in the House of Commons about what's best for the country, not just having a go at one another, trying to score cheap points.". People engaged positively and sensibly. I cant speak for all sex workers but, personally, I welcome input from Neville and like-minded people. [62] He then received a phone call from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, but Southall's hostile phone manner put Ferguson off the idea of signing him, and Ferguson instead bought Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. Pick them up in buses, try to bring business into the school, get funding in. He tells me, movingly, about the two foster children he and his wife look after and he finds new energy when compiling a list of people he wants me to contact. [131] However just one year on he was sacked, with the Hastings chairman saying that "there have recently been an increasing number of issues on which Neville and I have disagreed and it had got to the point where our working relationship had broken down, beyond the point of repair, as far as I was concerned". "What's so special about London? Neville Southall, pictured near his home in Llandeilo, has written a fascinating book with a difference for a footballer, focusing upon inequality. He has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation and won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1985.[4]. You get over-selfish as a footballer. [132], In November 2008, Margate manager Terry Yorath appointed Southall as his assistant in the Isthmian League. On any given night Southalls Twitter feed might contain intelligent explanations from people in the LGBT community, a drugs helpline, a suicide bereavement charity or a sex workers collective. Gary Speed brought in the Dutch geezer, Ray Verheijen, and he helped change the mindset. Former Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall speaks on the roadshow stage as supporters look on Today Ryan is bringing in a new generation again. What are you going to do now? Or they should send an all black team, just to annoy Putin.. The scientists say one thing in the room and Johnson says the exact opposite. But we must have that it we're going to build a good society for everybody. Neville Southall: Ive got a bit of flak because I stick up for sex workers | Donald McRae, When Neville Southall's stunning save at Spurs pushed Everton to the title, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Neville Southall, who turns 62 on Wednesday, Neville Southall: 'You dont expect loose cannons to take over your own country', want Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Donald Trump and the geezer from North Korea to be put on a boat that gets sent around the world for the next 25 years, Neville Southall says as he sinks back into his chair. I think Id be quite good at it. Southall and his Everton team-mates with the FA Cup after the 2-0 victory over Watford in the 1984 final. [86], In December 1997, Southall went to Alvin Martin's Southend United of the Second Division on loan. We don't seem to have anyone in power who wants to say 'Enough is enough, let's actually deal with this'. You either keep swimming or you drown. "[130], A month after resigning from the national scene, Southall returned to management with Hastings United. On the broader matter of what he sees as social injustice he has become a fierce campaigner, frequently taking to Twitter to speak out against inequality. [139], In 2014 Southall started working as a teaching assistant at Canolfan Yr Afon, the Pupil Referral Unit for Blaenau Gwent, based in Ebbw Vale, helping pupils with their job seeking and soft skills, and liaising with local businesses to arrange work placements. "These things, the Miners' Strike was another, passed me by because I was concentrating in my football bubble, but I see programmes about the 1980s on TV these days and it really brings it home to me how unfair things were. You can have as much technology as you want, but football remains about players and making sure you maximise what they have to offer. Gary Speed was a league title winner with Leeds, Dean Saunders a prolific goalscorer at any level. [43] He was voted BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year in 1995.[165]. Southall turns 62 on Wednesday but he is far from resigned to the way the world is reeling. Southall is also an extraordinary presence on Twitter. "I had him in the under-19s and remember a game against Hungary in the Faroe Isles. "Whether you have pasta or bacon sandwiches as your pre-match meal won't matter a jot if the mental attitude is not right. Getting into his stride, he gave two specific examples of high-profile political matters he is unhappy with. It was the sixth best selling football book of 2012. [104] Southall returned to play the final game, a 20 defeat to Czechoslovakia in Prague which left Wales two points short of group winners Denmark. He still cares about the game and his beloved Everton but Southall is less interested in the impact of James Rodrguez at the start of a new season than in addressing the state of the world. [37] They then lost the opening two league games of the season, before losing only three of their next 37 league games to win the First Division title by a 13-point margin. [34] Everton had a poor start to the league campaign, but excelled in cup competitions, reaching the final of both the League Cup and the FA Cup. "The players headed off to the party in the evening, but I felt no obligation to go. [39] In the European Cup Winners' Cup, Everton beat UCD (Ireland), Inter Bratislava (Czechoslovakia), Fortuna Sittard (Netherlands), and Bayern Munich (Germany) in two-legged encounters, and Southall conceded just one goal (from Dieter Hoene) over the course of all eight matches. Id like to work myself up into a position where Im a first responder at a suicide hotline. Southall is serious rather than sensationalist. I drove home, got in at 10.30pm and went to bed. [82] Caretaker-manager Dave Watson restored Southall to the starting line-up after Royle's resignation, and steered the club away from relegation. 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Id like to see him spend another year working on crosses and stand up more on one-on-ones. [125] His managing stint at the Kent club was short and he was sacked in March 2002, after only a few months in charge, after the club's new owners decided to promote his assistant Clive Walker. Footballs not interested. Arsenal want to play us. Wake up, drive to the training ground, do my work, repeat that the next day. The leadership has been horrendously poor while people are dying. When they first came on my Twitter I wasnt sure how theyd be taken. All of a sudden you think: Wow, another six months gone., Yet in his book Southall writes that, even when he is exhausted, whether at night or on the weekends, he will engage in direct messages online with people who sometimes feel seriously depressed. I just thought 'That building is on fire'. [94] However, on 29 January 2000, he picked up a concussion in a 21 defeat to Chester City at the Deva Stadium, and was substituted. You have a right to discover your real self. [4][10] He aspired to be a postman, and never believed that he would make a living playing football. These players were so good we had to fit them in somehow, but the current side has specialists in specialist positions and that can make a difference. Ive got a bit of flak because if I stick up for sex workers some people think Im supporting the trafficking of women. "I was concentrating so hard on what I did with Everton I was never that way inclined to get involved in anything else. [45] After getting sent off against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in October, Kendall criticised Southall in the press by saying he "let the lads down". "It can be anything, although I don't tend to go into the classroom. [123][124], He was appointed manager of Conference club Dover Athletic in December 2001. That started because I was asked to talk at some function for funeral directors in Croydon. [15] He moved on to Cheshire County League club Winsford United at the age of 20. "On the way home I kept seeing cars full of Everton supporters driving back to Liverpool with smiles on their faces. [42] At the end of the season Southall was named as the FWA Footballer of the Year, becoming the first Everton player, second Welshman and fourth goalkeeper to win the award. It's disgusting. [28] However, he began to suffer from ulcerated toes, which gave him severely swollen feet and caused him pain and discomfort throughout matches. Example two. Well does anybody? Do what Ive got to do [in supporting other communities online] and then I get to bed around 10 oclock. Mind Games by Neville Southall is published by Harper Collins. [117] A month away from his 39th birthday, he won his final cap against Turkey on 20 August 1997; the Turks won 64. [83], Howard Kendall returned again to manage Everton for the 199798 season and initially dropped Southall. Neville has a big presence on Twitter and tells delegates that he regularly gets people "who message me that they want to kill themselves. There is a famous story about Neville Southall, fresh from an FA Cup Final winning wonder show against Manchester United, supposedly snubbing Everton's after-match Wembley celebrations and. Our style was more physical back then. Southall is even more animated when discussing homophobia in football. He also played in the 1985 and 1989 FA Cup finals, the League Cup final in 1984, and helped Everton to a second place in the league in 198586. I got 30,000 new followers within a week. Why do we love Frank Bruno? We have to help them see international football. By using his profile he changes so many stereotypes and the stigma that go with mental health and addiction., One of Southalls trademark Twitter witticisms has centred on bizarre jokes about skeletons which mock the Tories austerity cuts. And so to a new book Southall is bringing out, Mind Games. But the first gay footballer will be a multimillionaire. So it is not surprising that, aged 59, he should now work at a pupil referral unit offering education for children excluded from mainstream schools. I like what makes people tick. Its an absolute disgrace to give her tablets so she cant be who she is. How can I not? Why would you go to a country where human rights are shit? Once considered one of the greatest goalkeepers on the planet during his playing days, Neville Southall became a well-known figure in another realm long after retiring. As such players don't seem to be as free, maybe they're over-coached. But Jessa Jones, a sex worker, makes a telling point. [75], In the summer of 1995 Southall was given a testimonial match against Celtic as well as an MBE during the ceremony the Queen asked Southall "what will you do now that you're retired?". Look what Covids done to society in the lockdown. I was surprised that the first thing Neville asked upon learning what I do for a living is: What do sex workers want to make their lives better? Jones reveals. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? They pay their taxes and they have families to feed but no one in government will do anything to help them.. [30] Kendall then dropped Southall as part of a shake-up at the club. The government would have to listen to them. See all episodes from Legends of Welsh Sport. You wear some rainbow laces one day? [95] At the age of 41 years and 178 days he became the fourth oldest player in Premier League history. [140], He is a member of the trade union UNISON and serves as international officer for his branch. If I made a mistake, and it was my fault we lost, I wanted to kill somebody. I knew then we had a class keeper on our hands. He has 134,000 followers but, rather than plugging a product or spreading bile, Southall gives up his Twitter page regularly to people who would not normally have such a platform to address the challenges and inequities they face. Southall shrugs when I say he must be disillusioned with the governments handling of the pandemic. Harry Kane? [97], Wales came close to qualifying for the 1986 FIFA World Cup despite losing their opening qualifying games away to Iceland and Spain. This is no ordinary sports star's story. [74] Everton won the game 10, with Southall making a double save from Paul Scholes; the victory left Southall as the most decorated Everton player in the club's history. "We just don't seem to have individuals any more and that's sad.". No. [35] He was rarely called into action in the 1984 FA Cup Final, and kept a clean sheet as Everton claimed the trophy with a 20 victory over Watford. Going into the final two games of qualifying, Wales led their group. 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