What Did Les Sealey Died Of?

Leslie Jesse Sealey (29 September 1957 – 19 August 2001) was an English expert footballer and mentor.

He played as a goalkeeper, most strikingly in the first class for Coventry City, Manchester United, Aston Villa, and West Ham United. He additionally played in the Football League for Luton Town, Plymouth Argyle, Birmingham City, Blackpool, Leyton Orient and Bury.

Following retirement, Sealey was delegated first group goalkeeping mentor at West Ham United, a position he was in when he passed on from a coronary episode on 19 August 2001. Sealey joined Coventry City as an understudy in 1976 and made his presentation as a 19-year-old on 11 April 1977, in a 1-1 draw at Queens Park Rangers. He spent the following five seasons at the West Midlands club prior to joining Luton Town in 1983 for £100,000. He was a standard in the group for a lot of his time at Kenilworth Road, however he missed their 1988 League Cup win because of injury, his place being taken by Andy Dibble. After a year, Luton arrived at the last once more and he had the option to keep objective this time in a 3-1 loss to Nottingham Forest in which Sealey had an unfortunate game, including fouling Steve Hodge to surrender a punishment (changed over by Nigel Clough). He was dropped from the group for Luton’s next game and supplanted by Alec Chamberlain. Sealey at no point ever played for Luton in the future.

In December 1989, Sealey was lent to Manchester United and showed up during the last a long time of the time. He was named as goalkeeper for the 1990 FA Cup Final replay against Crystal Palace after an unfortunate presentation from Jim Leighton in the previous 3-3 draw, and made a few recoveries to help his side success 1-0. He later offered his champ’s decoration to Leighton, who had played all through the cup run, however the FA accordingly conceded awards to the two players, who remained companions from there on.

Joined marked Sealey on an extremely durable premise, and he was their ordinary goalkeeper all through the 1990-91 season, keeping objective in their League Cup Final loss to Sheffield Wednesday (in which he was harmed, yet would not leave the field) and the Cup Winners’ Cup Final triumph over Barcelona the next month. He turned into a clique legend with United fans and got a thunderous applause at whatever point he got back to Old Trafford. He was wanting to get a two-year contract, however was offered only a one-year bargain and turned it down for an exchange, and was endorsed by Aston Villa. For a large part of the primary portion of 1991-92, Sealey was Villa’s best option goalkeeper, however he then lost his place to long-serving Nigel Spink and at absolutely no point ever played for the club in the future.

He had a few games borrowed at Birmingham City during the initial a long time of the 1992-93 season prior to getting back to Manchester United on a free exchange in January 1993, this time as Peter Schmeichel’s student.

 

Les Sealey Cause Of Death

Sealey was as yet utilized as West Ham’s goalkeeper mentor when he passed on from a coronary failure on 19 August 2001 at 43 years old.