Marvellous: Neil Baldwin - My Story

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Neil Baldwin. Marvellous: Neil Baldwin - My Story

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Neil Baldwin was born in 1946. As a child he was assessed as having (in today’s language) learning difficulties, a label which he has simply ignored to live a colourful life. That life was the subject of the film Marvellous, which won four BAFTAs, including Best Single Drama on British Television in 2014. He has been a circus clown, Stoke City FC kit man, friend of the famous, active church member, popular invitee to film showings and dinners, and friend of every generation of students at Keele University for sixty years, where he still runs his own football team. He has been awarded the Freedom of the City of Stoke-on-Trent and of his home town of Newcastle-under-Lyme; an honorary degree from Keele University for services to student welfare, and the British Empire Medal in the 2019 New Year’s honours list.

Malcolm Clarke first met Neil as an eighteen-year old on his first day at Keele University in 1964. They have been friends ever since. He became the youngest ever Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme. He has worked as an academic researcher, senior manager in the public sector and consultant, and has held various non-executive and tribunal roles. He is the national Chair of the Football Supporters’ Association, and represents supporters on the FA Council.

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When Neil came to stay he would eat my mum out of house and home. He could almost eat a loaf before a meal.

Neil wanted to run off with the circus – which, as we will see, years later, he did. Paul Bartels remembers:

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