Neil Finn (footballer)

Neil Finn ( born December 29, 1978 in Rainham ) is a former English football goalkeeper. Finn was his bet on New Years Day 1996 the youngest player in the history of the Premier League, then came but at no other professional use.

Career

Neil Finn was goalkeeper in the youth academy of West Ham United when he was locked on New Year's Day 1996, just three days after his 17th birthday and with the experience of three reserve games, because of the failures of the two regular goalkeepers of the professional team ( Luděk Mikloško, Les Sealey injured) in an away game against Manchester City in the first team debut and the youngest player in the history of the Premier League was. The 1-2 defeat was his only competitive match for West Ham, with the youth team, he was standing at the end of the season alongside Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard in the final of the FA Youth Cup, which they lost against Liverpool. While he was replaced as the youngest player ever inserted in the English first class a month later by Mark Platts until today ( November 2010) no goalkeeper was younger than Finn on his Premier League debut.

In March 1998, he was loaned to Dorchester Town before he left West Ham on season. As a result, he came across the Barnet FC to Aldershot Town, where he graduated at the end of 1998 contract -free base three cup tournaments, and then moved to Harrow Borough on. After a few years break, he joined in the summer of 2004, the amateur club FC Romford on, for whom he played 136 games duty in the next four years, 73 of them in the Essex Senior League. In the summer of 2010, he took over the post of goalkeeper coach in Romford, which have since been promoted to the Isthmian League.