This Day in History: 2023-01-17

Nr. 384

GOALIE SUES DAUGHTER IN TROPHY ROW

A struggling law student was left with a £6,000 legal bill in 2007 because her football legend father sued her for the return of his trophies. Ex-Everton and Wales goalie Neville Southalll gave his FA Cup medal, his MBE and a number of international caps to daughter Samantha when she was ten. But nine years later after splitting from Samantha’s mother, Southall told a court he never intended for his daughter to keep the trophy collection worth £55,000. The teenager sobbed as a judge at Liverpool’s civil and family court ordered her to return the memorabilia to her father and pay £6,000 costs. The law student said: «I am devastated – I idolised my dad. I don’t know how I’ll pay.»