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Autobiography
Mind Games
Neville Southall
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The most difficult position in football? Being a goalkeeper. That's what they say, right? You have to be a bit different to stand between those posts and bat away shots and crosses all game long.
Neville Southall should know. He was the goalkeeper for one of the best teams of the 1980s and became an icon of the game during his 20-year career between the sticks. But what did it take to prepare himself mentally for the difficulties of the position? How did he dig so deep on the biggest occasions and in the most high-pressure moments? What scars were left at the end of his long career - a tenure that saw the highs of winning trophies, but also the lows of losing games, making mistakes and feeling the full weight of club and country on his shoulders? And how he used his post-playing career to campaign for a better future for the next generation.
In Mind Games, one of footballs greatest cult players reflects on the travails of modern football and how some of society's problems are reflected within it. Neville draws upon his own experiences to tackle one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. Fear of failure, confidence, sexuality and homophobia, suicide, social media - Neville doesn't hold back on the biggest subjects and gets stuck in to some of the most important topics surrounding the beautiful game.

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