Podcast appearances and mentions of kevin pilkington

Twenty years ago, Mansfield Town under the stewardship of Stuart Watkiss won promotion to what is now Sky Bet League One. In celebration of the success from a team full of local starlets, we're recalling the glory from those at the heart of it all. Former Stags front man Andy White will join Craig as co-host for the series, and in this episode, the duo are joined by a man it turns out they both idolized as youngsters - Kevin Pilkington! The former shot stopper shares all on the 2001-02 campaign, his relationship with ex-boss Bill Dearden and why Mansfield, will always have a special place in his heart. PLEASE NOTE: - These episodes may contain some strong language and DO contain a horrendous quiz - They were recorded DURING the 2021-22 season but we delayed the release due to the play-offs, therefore they may reference (then current) on pitch events. - The views expressed in this broadcast are solely those of the individuals DATE OF RECORDING 6th April 2022 www.mtfcmatters.co.uk

**EXCLUSIVE CONTENT** James Perch is the likely candidate to lead the Stags out at Wembley on Saturday afternoon In 2004, Perch had just graduated the youth ranks at Forest and would have been watching home town club Mansfield take on Huddersfield Town in the play-off final in Cardiff. Earlier today I spoke to the skipper from that brilliant afternoon, a hero of mine and true gent - Kevin Pilkington

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Kevin Pilkington joins author and producer Wayne Barton to discuss the weekend's results and preview the game with Villarreal. ===== Subscribe, like and click the notification bell to ensure you don't miss our other shows. TalkOfTheDevils is the only independent Manchester United YouTube channel to bring you weekly shows and opinions from former players of the club. *Mondays with Paul Parker at 10am *Fridays with Phil Marsh & Lee Lawrence at 7pm *Sundays with Scott Wootton at 7pm Visit http://www.talkofthedevils.co.uk for interviews and feature writing and the only place where you can find every reserve team game and result ever.

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Kevin Pilkington joins author and producer Wayne Barton to discuss the return of Ronaldo, preview the Champions League game tomorrow and also discuss the situation with David De Gea and Dean Henderson. ===== Subscribe, like and click the notification bell to ensure you don't miss our other shows. TalkOfTheDevils is the only independent Manchester United YouTube channel to bring you weekly shows and opinions from former players of the club. *Mondays with Paul Parker at 10am *Fridays with Phil Marsh & Lee Lawrence at 7pm *Sundays with Scott Wootton at 7pm Visit http://www.talkofthedevils.co.uk for interviews and feature writing and the only place where you can find every reserve team game and result ever.

Matt Beadle is joined by Ben Senior in studio for a bumper 95 minute edition of The Manchester United Fan Show ready for your commute! It may be slightly too early to think about Christmas, but Ben takes us through what he would like to see under his tree in terms of players incoming to United. Plus we talk where Fred goes from here now he is up and running and wish former player Nani a happy birthday. Also an extended interview with the forgotten man of "The Class Of 92", former United Goalkeeper Kevin Pilkington! 

Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of six collections of poetry including The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in many anthologies, and his poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry and Ploughshares, among others. He also has a novel entitled Summer Shares (out from Arche Books).Pilkington reads from his works, as do the winners of the 2012 Ragan Poetry Contest.

This week’s guest grew into goalkeeping via one of football’s finest foundations. He’s shared a changing room with global superstars, he’s played more more than 400 games over the course of a 27-year career, he’s a man Robbie Savage once referred to as a “gentle giant” and, more importantly, at the tender age of 45, he is the last remaining member of the celebrated Class of '92 to still be playing. Kevin Pilkington stood alongside David Beckham and co as the man between the sticks when Manchester United won the FA Youth Cup in 1992. He tells stories of his time at Old Trafford, from being offered a contract by Sir Alex Ferguson to playing behind the likes of Bruce, Pallister and, er, William Prunier.

As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before she was old enough to fully understand her urge to defy the status quo. In her candid and poignant memoir, Primary Lessons (CavanKerry Press, 2013), White recalls a childhood marked by equal measures of poverty and pride–formative years spent sorting through the “lessons” learned from a complicated relationship with her beloved, careworn mother and from a father’s absence engendered by racial injustice and compromised manhood. Although born in Sumter, South Carolina, Sarah spends much of her first five years in Philadelphia in the care of her bighearted Aunt Susie and her husband, Uncle Whitey. As her parents fourth daughter, she has been sent north to ease her family’s financial burden, freeing her mother to work as a schoolteacher. Young Sarah loves her life in Philadelphia, and is devastated when her mother comes to retrieve her and take her back to a home she has never known. There, she is shocked and confused to encounter strange signs that read “colored only” and to be told for the first time that black people must behave a certain way around white people and accept their lot as second class citizens. “The point of any successful memoir is to discover what the speaker learns on their journey,” writes Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky and The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, in his foreword to Primary Lessons. “[I]t is a trip worth taking when it teaches and enlightens and encourages me to revisit and solidify profound truths I already know to be true. Sarah Bracey Whites journey is a continuous struggle to find her way, a struggle I found both difficult and inspirational. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Young Sarah becomes aware of this at an early age, realizing being born poor and black is not the measure of a persons value.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before she was old enough to fully understand her urge to defy the status quo. In her candid and poignant memoir, Primary Lessons (CavanKerry Press, 2013), White recalls a childhood marked by equal measures of poverty and pride–formative years spent sorting through the “lessons” learned from a complicated relationship with her beloved, careworn mother and from a father’s absence engendered by racial injustice and compromised manhood. Although born in Sumter, South Carolina, Sarah spends much of her first five years in Philadelphia in the care of her bighearted Aunt Susie and her husband, Uncle Whitey. As her parents fourth daughter, she has been sent north to ease her family’s financial burden, freeing her mother to work as a schoolteacher. Young Sarah loves her life in Philadelphia, and is devastated when her mother comes to retrieve her and take her back to a home she has never known. There, she is shocked and confused to encounter strange signs that read “colored only” and to be told for the first time that black people must behave a certain way around white people and accept their lot as second class citizens. “The point of any successful memoir is to discover what the speaker learns on their journey,” writes Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky and The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, in his foreword to Primary Lessons. “[I]t is a trip worth taking when it teaches and enlightens and encourages me to revisit and solidify profound truths I already know to be true. Sarah Bracey Whites journey is a continuous struggle to find her way, a struggle I found both difficult and inspirational. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Young Sarah becomes aware of this at an early age, realizing being born poor and black is not the measure of a persons value.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before she was old enough to fully understand her urge to defy the status quo. In her candid and poignant memoir, Primary Lessons (CavanKerry Press, 2013), White recalls a childhood marked by equal measures of poverty and pride–formative years spent sorting through the “lessons” learned from a complicated relationship with her beloved, careworn mother and from a father’s absence engendered by racial injustice and compromised manhood. Although born in Sumter, South Carolina, Sarah spends much of her first five years in Philadelphia in the care of her bighearted Aunt Susie and her husband, Uncle Whitey. As her parents fourth daughter, she has been sent north to ease her family’s financial burden, freeing her mother to work as a schoolteacher. Young Sarah loves her life in Philadelphia, and is devastated when her mother comes to retrieve her and take her back to a home she has never known. There, she is shocked and confused to encounter strange signs that read “colored only” and to be told for the first time that black people must behave a certain way around white people and accept their lot as second class citizens. “The point of any successful memoir is to discover what the speaker learns on their journey,” writes Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky and The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, in his foreword to Primary Lessons. “[I]t is a trip worth taking when it teaches and enlightens and encourages me to revisit and solidify profound truths I already know to be true. Sarah Bracey Whites journey is a continuous struggle to find her way, a struggle I found both difficult and inspirational. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Young Sarah becomes aware of this at an early age, realizing being born poor and black is not the measure of a persons value.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before she was old enough to fully understand her urge to defy the status quo. In her candid and poignant memoir, Primary Lessons (CavanKerry Press, 2013), White recalls a childhood marked by equal measures of poverty and pride–formative years spent sorting through the “lessons” learned from a complicated relationship with her beloved, careworn mother and from a father’s absence engendered by racial injustice and compromised manhood. Although born in Sumter, South Carolina, Sarah spends much of her first five years in Philadelphia in the care of her bighearted Aunt Susie and her husband, Uncle Whitey. As her parents fourth daughter, she has been sent north to ease her family’s financial burden, freeing her mother to work as a schoolteacher. Young Sarah loves her life in Philadelphia, and is devastated when her mother comes to retrieve her and take her back to a home she has never known. There, she is shocked and confused to encounter strange signs that read “colored only” and to be told for the first time that black people must behave a certain way around white people and accept their lot as second class citizens. “The point of any successful memoir is to discover what the speaker learns on their journey,” writes Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky and The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, in his foreword to Primary Lessons. “[I]t is a trip worth taking when it teaches and enlightens and encourages me to revisit and solidify profound truths I already know to be true. Sarah Bracey Whites journey is a continuous struggle to find her way, a struggle I found both difficult and inspirational. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Young Sarah becomes aware of this at an early age, realizing being born poor and black is not the measure of a persons value.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before she was old enough to fully understand her urge to defy the status quo. In her candid and poignant memoir, Primary Lessons (CavanKerry Press, 2013), White recalls a childhood marked by equal measures of poverty and pride–formative years spent sorting through the “lessons” learned from a complicated relationship with her beloved, careworn mother and from a father’s absence engendered by racial injustice and compromised manhood. Although born in Sumter, South Carolina, Sarah spends much of her first five years in Philadelphia in the care of her bighearted Aunt Susie and her husband, Uncle Whitey. As her parents fourth daughter, she has been sent north to ease her family’s financial burden, freeing her mother to work as a schoolteacher. Young Sarah loves her life in Philadelphia, and is devastated when her mother comes to retrieve her and take her back to a home she has never known. There, she is shocked and confused to encounter strange signs that read “colored only” and to be told for the first time that black people must behave a certain way around white people and accept their lot as second class citizens. “The point of any successful memoir is to discover what the speaker learns on their journey,” writes Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky and The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, in his foreword to Primary Lessons. “[I]t is a trip worth taking when it teaches and enlightens and encourages me to revisit and solidify profound truths I already know to be true. Sarah Bracey Whites journey is a continuous struggle to find her way, a struggle I found both difficult and inspirational. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Young Sarah becomes aware of this at an early age, realizing being born poor and black is not the measure of a persons value.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before she was old enough to fully understand her urge to defy the status quo. In her candid and poignant memoir, Primary Lessons (CavanKerry Press, 2013), White recalls a childhood marked by equal measures of poverty and pride–formative years spent sorting through the “lessons” learned from a complicated relationship with her beloved, careworn mother and from a father's absence engendered by racial injustice and compromised manhood. Although born in Sumter, South Carolina, Sarah spends much of her first five years in Philadelphia in the care of her bighearted Aunt Susie and her husband, Uncle Whitey. As her parents fourth daughter, she has been sent north to ease her family's financial burden, freeing her mother to work as a schoolteacher. Young Sarah loves her life in Philadelphia, and is devastated when her mother comes to retrieve her and take her back to a home she has never known. There, she is shocked and confused to encounter strange signs that read “colored only” and to be told for the first time that black people must behave a certain way around white people and accept their lot as second class citizens. “The point of any successful memoir is to discover what the speaker learns on their journey,” writes Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky and The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, in his foreword to Primary Lessons. “[I]t is a trip worth taking when it teaches and enlightens and encourages me to revisit and solidify profound truths I already know to be true. Sarah Bracey Whites journey is a continuous struggle to find her way, a struggle I found both difficult and inspirational. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' Young Sarah becomes aware of this at an early age, realizing being born poor and black is not the measure of a persons value.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies