Hmm.

superb. what year was that?

why did he go to everton?

The photo URL reads 'Penelope Cruz Cannes 2011', rick, so that's your first question answered.

Not sure about Nevin, though.

He went to Everton in '88; the gig was in 1990.

rick derris wrote:


The djing is a pretty recent thing...



He would have been wearing a Crispy Ambulance t shirt way back when.

Pat Nevin, is really quite unique , I mean he's kinda cool, and even occasionally talks sense when he's doing the pundit stuff.
Plus people often he was pretty awsome in his pomp as a player, and as a diminutive tricky winger had almost a Matthews cross team loyalty appeal.

I knew at least 3 Tottenham fans, who used to go to Stamford Bridge back in the day when Chelsea were in the second, just to watch Nevin play - of course they had to put up with Kerry Dixon at the same time.
I even went once, (Sheffield Wednesday 3-2, after being 3-0 up.) I think Nevin played ; but went off injured - but it was a long time ago and age addles memories.
Anyway a bit rambling way to say - Nevin is cool.

The Pat Nevin 1985 cocktail:

Fill half a tall glass with:



Add a liberal measure of



Squeeze and mix together together with



and



and garnish with

In the Emlyn Hughes Team-Tactix board game the bio on the Pat Nevin card reads "a right-winger, with left-wing views".

I never trusted The Cult Of Nevin back in the day, or the man himself. Indie is/was muggy bonehead.

Beltrano Carpinteiro wrote:


Beltrano,

You know every other mid 80’s First Division player with the exception of Nevin would have been listening to Level 42, Go West, Dire Straits, Simply Red, Mr Mister, Huey Lewis and the News etc on their Walkman WM-D6C Pro with orange sponge earphones.

So please, just give us indie (ex) kids one footballer with no complaints or criticisms eh ;-)

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:


True. But there was the odd exception. Paul Mariner was a massive Iron Maiden fan. And, of course, Stuart Pearce and The Lurkers. Frank Worthington is obsessed with Elvis.

Me and my old man saw Nevin outside a pub in Kensington once. He chatted for about 5 minutes, then about 2 weeks later in the same spot, he remembered both mine and my dad's names, instantly.

For this I think he is a chap. I can't even remember the bloke sitting opposite me at works name and it's been 2 weeks

Crusczoe wrote:


a) I very well may have missed something but are you saying Nevin looked like Cruz? What the what?!

b) all that detail on her dress around the bust is very unappealing.

Stumpy Pepys wrote:


I seem to recall a letter in WSC a few years back in which someone said that they'd bumped into Pearce at a punk gig and asked him to hold their pint while they went for a bit of a pogo. He was happy to oblige, apparently.

mirko bolesan wrote:


I read an interview with Tony Cottee (Nevin's old room-mate) who said they used to have great political arguments which went on for hours, and he used exactly the same joke - "he was a right winger on the pitch, but he was very left wing off it!" I mean, most people thought Pat Nevin's most unusual, un-footballer-like trait was his love of Einsturzende Neubauten or whatever, but to other footballers I guess it was his "left-wing views".

You get the same thing in the FIFA film of one of the 70s World Cups, a shot of Paul Breitner and a voiceover reference to his "left-wing opinion". It's like how old football books or newspaper reports refer to black players as "the black midfielder" or "the tall, black centre forward". It was such a remarkable thing that it was worth mentioning every time.

Since Nevin retired, as well as his punditry work, he's had a sideline selling kitchens - the irony is he can't actually cook!

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:


You say that like it's a bad thing.

Don't forget, Geoffrey, that Harry loves Level 42 like a doe-eyed puppy dog. I am glad that he mentioned the Penelope Cruz thing though. I was terribly confused.

Nevin's in Wroclaw for Five Live for the Euros. He was asked about the city the other day and said that it would be beautiful if it wasn't for UEFA's fanzone in the old town, which was corporate and destroying the unique character of the place. UEFA, he said, were guilty of trying to make everywhere look the same and that significantly detracted from the enjoyment of a tournament.

Hardly the most cutting edge analysis of neoliberalism and urban space I'll grant you, but a) that's not his remit and b) it certainly beats anything else you get.