On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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And Sealey, without doubt, paved the way for another obsessive, loud, obnoxious personality to take over from him – Peter Schmeichel really was just a much better version of Les in reality.

Despite his personal turmoil, Joe started to rebuild his life, and became a sports agent representing a host of big names in football and boxing.But, for all that material success, it was only meeting his wife Nicole that finally helped Joe to find happiness again. Thirteen years after Sealey died at 43, his son Joe was handed a box of cassettes his dad had recorded. I originally wrote this piece back in May 2022 and thought today was a good day to get it out there again. I didn’t have one clear bottoming out moment, but eventually I thought I was sick and tired of being sick and tired of life, and I never wanted to have to say sorry to my family ever again.

Having moved around a bit and had spells when he was away from home earlier in his career, we were now all living at home in Loughton, but there was no way he would help me.

Every day I was having either the hardest possible massage or agonising physio, to build the arm back up and get fit.