PLAYER RATINGS: Andre Onana is the man of the moment with last-second penalty save, Harry Maguire silences his critics. Marcus Rashford 'went on a 12-hour tequila bender in Belfast' as he was spotted in nightclub last week… then. He’d retired from football and wasn’t doing a lot, he’d just bought some property down towards Southend and he’d gone there to do some renovations. One morning I woke up with a bit of a stiff neck and I probably shouldn’t have trained, but it was a chance to gain ground on him, so I did. 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.

Rules at the time allowed the young Sealey to play for as many teams as he wanted before signing for one, and he was turning out for Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Charlton and Southend, before telling his father he wanted to play for West Ham. He must have known he wasn’t playing when Schmeichel was there, so he was going back to fight as number two with Gary Walsh; he must have known that.

But just when things looked to be really good, fate intervened, changing the course of Joe’s career, and his life. For half a second, we stared at each other with a mutual recognition of how ridiculous this was, before our security guards swept me and my team-mates towards the exits. It took away all the pain and made me smile, but eventually it took everything from me, my personality, my life.

Sealey played in four cup finals for United, including the 1990 FA Cup final replay when Ferguson dropped first-choice goalkeeper Jim Leighton after the team narrowly avoided defeat by Crystal Palace in the first game. Hoping he’d done enough for a two-year deal, Sealey was offered just one by Ferguson so he chose to leave Old Trafford. Apart from that knee injury at Wembley, I’d never known my dad go to a hospital, he wouldn’t go to a doctor, he just got on with things. If the manager wanted to make a specific point to either of them or give Andrei a bit of a b---------, they would be taken into a side room with the Prof, and if the manager began shouting, George would raise his voice with him.The trauma I went through in that period wasn’t great and it took me a long time to get back on track. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. British football's season of SHAME: Amid violence at West Brom vs Wolves and yobs making monkey gestures and mocking Bradley Lowery. I took a gamble replacing Jim Leighton, but I knew Les had the character and personality to play on the big stage.

Charlton wanted to offer me a professional contract, but then I picked up a knee injury playing at West Ham, and he thought I should join Southend and was negotiating a deal there for me, because he said I’d get a chance to play there, and then someone else would spot me and sign me, but I told him I wanted to go West Ham,’ he said. Despite being written in this way there is still a distinct sense of Les’s voice and personality throughout the book. At the start it made me feel happy but at the end I was drinking vodka out of a bottle neat and taking cocaine in a Travelodge watching Jeremy Kyle. Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann strikes a pose in glittery dress as she shares her 25th birthday party snaps. The most successful part of Les’s career was his two stints at Manchester United, where, like cousin Alan had been at West Ham, he was a winner of the FA Cup and Cup Winners’ Cup, so for Joe and younger brother George to both follow in his footsteps by wanting to be goalkeepers at West Ham was a daunting step to take.The next chapter is Leighton’s own account of events, also told with brutal honesty in his own book, In the Firing Line, published in 2000.