Neill Rimmer

Neill Rimmer ( born November 13, 1967 in Liverpool ) is a former English footballer. The midfielder spent by beginning at Everton and Ipswich Town the majority of his career at Wigan Athletic. There he first played in 1988 in the third, and five years later only the fourth English league.

Sports career

After he had already been part of the youth department of FC Everton, Rimmer signed as a young midfield talent at the age of just 16 years, his first professional contract. Length of the student and youth national player of the club, however, was not preserved and it was only on the last matchday of the league season 1984/85 by Substitutes for Paul Wilkinson against Luton Town used. However, the game had no sporting value more, because the " Toffees " had already been at this time as the English champions. In midfield, he acted on the side of Jason Danskin, Derek Walsh and John Morrissey, who had, as it never stood in the starting lineup for a championship game, and almost logically the game against Luton lost 0-2. Transfer fee free coach Howard Kendall left him then drag in August 1985 to second division Ipswich Town.

Also in Ipswich Rimmer waited in vain for his sporting breakthrough. After two years in which he had just been involved in three league games, he was at least in the season 1987/88 to less than 19 championship games. In this shot, the trained Midfielder - here mostly in central defense or left-sided midfielder agierend - on October 17, 1987 against Manchester City (3-0), the first two league goals in his professional career. At the end of the season he was then, however, release from his contract and Rimmer then moved in July 1988 to the third tier to Wigan Athletic.

On the first day of the 1988/89 season he made his debut for Wigan against Bristol Rovers ( 2-0) and in the following eight years was Rimmer - with interruptions - as -tackling midfielder and ball Peculiar important part and later captain of the " Latics ". But he had to struggle with setbacks, which on the one concerned his injury problems that overtook him especially between 1991 and 1993. On the other hand it increased in 1993 with the team in the fourth division from. His simplistic internal state suffered little and after good performances in the 1994/95 season selected in the own supporters "Player of the Year." Even in his last years he showed himself especially in the second half again as reliable, crossed the 200 - Compulsory Games brand in Wigan and left the club in the summer of 1996, after the end of the contract period. Last stations were then Altrincham FC in the Football Conference and the FC Scarborough, but for which he did not come into play in a professional league game.