On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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And if the young Sealey thought life had dealt him a devastating blow with that, it was as nothing compared to just two weeks later when on August 19 2001, his father was taken ill while house hunting. He remains a Manchester United fan - and until last season had a box at Old Trafford - but now that Remi is playing for Huddersfield, that’s where you’ll find Joe most weekends.

Marcus Rashford is 'out of control' and 'has NO respect' for Erik ten Hag or his Man United team-mates,.

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 dived to my right, felt my left shoulder pop and ignored it, then later I dived to my left and it popped out but didn’t go back in. But just when things looked to be really good, fate intervened, changing the course of Joe’s career, and his life.

I can't think of another book like this one that does this with both the game of football and its relationship to fathers and sons. He was by far and away my favourite at a young age – though, credit to Andy Dibble, he probably found himself as my second favourite after that penalty save at Wembley which won us the Littlewoods Cup.Football was simply part of life for Joe growing up, and all he ever wanted to do - but his dad never pushed him into it. After the first game against Crystal Palace was drawn 3-3, he dropped his goalkeeper, Jim Leighton, who had been with Ferguson for most of his managerial career, and replaced him with Sealey, who had played just two matches in a year. PLAYER RATINGS: Andre Onana is the man of the moment with last-second penalty save, Harry Maguire silences his critics. Following retirement, Sealey was appointed first team goalkeeping coach at West Ham United, a position he was in when he died of a heart attack on 19 August 2001. JURGEN KLOPP'S TOP FIVE FUNNIEST MOMENTS: Pulling a hamstring celebrating at Anfield and rapping after winning the Champions League!

On one side of it, Paul is being held back by four of his team-mates screaming: “If that’s what you think, why don’t you sell me, you c---? Sealey died in 2001, a few months after leaving West Ham, where both Joe and George were goalkeepers in the youth ranks.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. I was telling myself it was making me feel better but it was pushing things deeper and deeper down, making me do more regretful stuff and slowly killing me. A London east end boy born into poverty, he was an unique character and a very talented goalkeeper, who coached at West Ham after his playing career was over. Les Sealey played for Manchester United, West Ham, Aston Villa and Leyton Orient amongst other clubs.