Marvellous: Neil Baldwin - My Story

Marvellous: Neil Baldwin - My Story
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BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS, TOP FOOTBALLERS, POLITICIANS AND ACTORS… THEY ALL COUNT HIM AS THEIR FRIEND. PRIME MINISTERS AND SENIOR ROYALS STOP AND LISTEN TO HIS OPINIONS. HE’S GOT AN HONORARY DEGREE AND HIS VERY OWN FOOTBALL CLUB. HE HAS EVEN BEEN ON TV BUT WHO IS NEIL BALDWIN?<br>As a boy in a working-class part of the Potteries in the fifties and sixties, the education system wrote him off. But Neil, who believes you can just ‘get things by asking for them’, knows his late Mum wanted him to have a happy life, and it’s his duty to her to have one.<br>So he does.<br>At Keele University, they hold regular celebrations and services for the decades he’s been a friend to the students, academics and vice-chancellors; but he’s never been a student, a teacher, or had any formal connection with the place.<br>At Stoke City Football Club, he’s ‘more famous than the players’.<br>He’s even got a dialogue going with the queen – though that one’s still a little one-sided.<br>This is the inspiring, moving and at times hysterically funny story of Neil Baldwin’s marvellous life. <br>’You don’t feel sorry for Neil Baldwin, you want to be like him.’ – Gary Linekar<br>’My best-ever signing’ – Lou Macari

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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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