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Joe Mewis

‘They tried to take the rip at Chelsea but I’d give it back. Perfect example: my nickname quickly became Weirdo. I just said to them, “I’m normal, you’re a bunch of weirdos”’ Pat Nevin on how his love for culture went down in the dressing room

12 November 1983 - Football League Division One - Chelsea v Newcastle United - Pat Nevin of Chelsea. (Photo by Mark Leech/Getty Images).

When it came to footballers in the 1980s, it’s fair to say Pat Nevin stuck out like a sore thumb.

Prefering culture to Carling and more likely to be listening to Joy Division and the Cocteau Twins than the era’s dressing room staples of Phil Collins and Lionel Richie, Nevin was dubbed ‘the first post-punk footballer’.

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