Neill Rimmer

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Neill Rimmer
Personnel
Surname Neill Rimmer
birthday November 13, 1967
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
size 168 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
Everton FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1985 Everton FC 1 0(0)
1985-1988 Ipswich Town 22 0(3)
1988-1996 Wigan Athletic 190 (10)
1996-1997 Altrincham FC 5 0(0)
Scarborough FC 0 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Neill Rimmer (born November 13, 1967 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player . The midfielder has spent most of his career at Wigan Athletic after starting out at Everton and Ipswich Town . There he first played from 1988 in the third division and five years later only in the fourth English division.

Athletic career

After having already been part of the youth department of Everton FC , Rimmer signed his first professional contract as a young midfielder at the age of just 16. However, the school and youth international did not stay with the club for a long time and he was only used on the last league match day of the 1984/85 season by substituting for Paul Wilkinson against Luton Town . However, the game no longer had any sporting value, as the "Toffees" had already been established as English champions at this point . In midfield he played alongside Jason Danskin , Derek Walsh and John Morrissey , who had never been in the starting XI for a championship game, and it was almost logical that the game was lost 2-0 to Luton. Coach Howard Kendall let him move to the second division club Ipswich Town in August 1985 .

In Ipswich too, Rimmer waited in vain for his sporting breakthrough. After two years, in which he had only participated in three league games, he came at least in the 1987/88 season to at least 19 championship games. The trained midfielder - here mostly in the middle of the defense or in the left midfield - scored the first two league goals in his professional career against Manchester City (3-0) on October 17, 1987 . At the end of the season, however, he was released from his expiring contract and Rimmer then moved to the third division for Wigan Athletic in July 1988 .

On the first day of the 1988/89 season he made his debut for Wigan against the Bristol Rovers (2-0) and in the following eight years Rimmer was - with interruptions - as a strong duel midfielder and ball conqueror an important part and later captain of the "Latics". But he also had to struggle with setbacks, on the one hand with his injury problems, which overtook him mainly between 1991 and 1993. On the other hand, he rose in 1993 with the team in the fourth division. His status within the club suffered little and after consistently good performances in the 1994/95 season, he voted for his own supporters as "Player of the Year". Also in his senior year he showed himself to be reliable, especially in the second half of the season, exceeded the 200 competitive game mark in Wigan and left the club in the summer of 1996 after the end of the contract period. The last stations were then Altrincham FC in the Football Conference and Scarborough FC , for which he was no longer in a professional league game.

literature

  • Dean P. Hayes: The Who's Who of Wigan Athletic . Breedon Books, Derby 2004, ISBN 1-85983-420-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-180854-9 , pp. 178 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1 , pp. 207 .
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Neill Rimmer (Playerhistory.com)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / soccerdatabase.eu
personal data
SURNAME Rimmer, Neill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool