Pat Nevin: Great Man

[Guest millwallforever]

"I am not a number,

I am a free man.

Being a footballer is what I do,

It isn't what I am." (Pat Nevin)

 

Pat Nevin is one of the most unusual characters in football. I always thought he would make an excellent manager, but for some reason he never had a go at that task. He probably has too many different interests to bother to commit himself fully to something as anti-intellectual as football. Still, Nevin should have been a universally acclaimed Goodison legend. I hold Howard Kendall the drunkard responsible for the failure to utilise the talents of this extraordinary man and highly gifted footballer. Here is an old interview:

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-the-monday-interview-pat-nevin--mind-games-of-the-thinking--mans-footballer-1294551.html

[Matt]

I remember him more from his Tranmere games, too young to remember his Everton days really. As we couldn't afford an Everton season ticket holder, I used to go with my best mate to the Tranmere games instead (50quid for the season, 2 years running). I was always him when we played in Victoria park after the game

[Guest millwallforever]

Nevin at his finest:

 

http://www.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=VKFLIX140Hc

 

http://www.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=q99jZbHY2l4

Edited November 26, 2014 by millwallforever

[Formby]

He was a great player and a great ambassador for football, too - belonging to the small band of players (Heighway, Coppell, Le Saux) who were unashamedly 'middle-class' in outlook (think they all did A levels). It was nice to know you could read The Guardian (when it was quite 'left-wing' (pun intended)) and go to art galleries and play football at the same time. Sadly, there don't seem any British players like that at the moment. It's left to the foreign imports to provide a bit culture (on and off the field).

[MikeO]

He was a great player and a great ambassador for football, too - belonging to the small band of players (Heighway, Coppell, Le Saux) who were unashamedly 'middle-class' in outlook (think they all did A levels). It was nice to know you could read The Guardian (when it was quite 'left-wing' (pun intended)) and go to art galleries and play football at the same time. Sadly, there don't seem any British players like that at the moment. It's left to the foreign imports to provide a bit culture (on and off the field).

 

Iain Dowie was another one, well remember Le Saux being dubbed as gay because he was a Guardian reader .

 

Wouldn't describe them as "middle-class" though, they were just a bit more evolved than most.

[Brett Angel]

I think the make up artist for itv and channel five has a vendetta against poor old pat, cause the guys looks like he's been dragged through a hedge and back again when he's on Tele.....must be the middle class look of today.