On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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Marcus Rashford 'went on a 12-hour tequila bender in Belfast' as he was spotted in nightclub last week… then. Joe Sealey once dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps as a goalkeeper - now he fancies owning a football club. You can’t blame Palace for targeting him – he’d hardly played all season, so if I was Crystal Palace, I’d be saying: stick the ball in the box, see what’s happening here. Every day Les was here was like a birthday for him because he came out of nowhere to play in the cup final.

It was the first time he had opened the tub since it landed in his possession by chance, along with the draft of a book titled Definitely Mental. I was devastated about my football career being over, then just two weeks later my dad died and of course when that happened it put everything in perspective. I don't think you'll ever see that again, with that type of injury, anyone doing anything like that.

Joe Sealey suffered the loss of his goalkeeping legend dad Les Sealey aged just 43, as well as his own football career within the space of two traumatic weeks. After the Cup Winners’ Cup, United signed Peter Schmeichel and my dad went to Aston Villa for the 1991/92 season.

Short spells with Blackpool, West Ham and Leyton Orient would follow and Sealey was still registered as a player after his 42nd birthday. There was a huge outpouring of grief with friends and former team-mates joining "thousands of people" with family at the funeral. I think he was maybe a bit famous playing for Luton, but after he’d joined United I'd be walking down the street or going to school and everyone knew who my dad was. Nowadays if you get a knock on the head you can’t play for two weeks, so it was a different era, different time. That’s the first time I remember that type of thing - football wasn’t quite like it is now, you were still able to go out and do stuff.In December 1989, Alex Ferguson needed an experienced backup to his out-of-form number one, Jim Leighton. Joe Sealey opens up the bag of treasures: old, worn Manchester United jerseys; the goalkeeping gloves used by his father, Les, in the 1990 FA Cup final replay; a manuscript of a memoir that his dad started but died before he could publish.



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