‘Wee Pat Nevin’ Takes Latest Dream Team Place
By Deadly Submarine
March 1 2005
Pat Nevin has become the latest player to take his place in the Total Tranmere Rovers Dream Team after polling 65% of the 26 votes in the latest poll. The only other candidate to receive any votes was Alan Mahon. The 5ft 6ins Celtic fan and Scottish International quickly became a crowd favourite.
Total Tranmere Rovers Dream Team : Left Midfielder – Pat Nevin
How He Won:
| Question of the Week |
| Question: Total Tranmere Rovers Dream Team - Left Midfield: | ||||||||||
Number of votes: 26 |
35%
Nevin’s Tranmere Career:
Played = 219 (and 12 as Sub)
Scored = 39
Following a loan spell spanning the final two months of the 1991-92 season, Nevin signed for Rovers on a permanent basis from Everton for £300,000 and made his debut as a Tranmere player at the start of the following season. The Scottish International soon became a big hit with the Tranmere faithful with his runs and crosses usually from the left wing and his combination with fellow Dream Team winger Johnny Morrissey on the opposite side of the field.
In his five years at the club, he scored 30 goals - an average of six per season which isn’t bad for a left winger. It could be said that one of his most important goals came in the 1994 League Cup Quarter Final against Nottingham Forest which helped see Tranmere through the to the semi-finals where lost to eventual winners Aston Villa on penalties after two legs.
He was part of some great times for Rovers in the 1990’s including reaching the First Division Play-Offs for three years in succession from 1993-95 but sadly, failing to reach the final on any occasion. Added to this was the aforementioned run to the League Cup semi-finals in 1994.
Speaking of his move to Tranmere, some time after, Nevin said “I was disappointed to drop down a division, but when a top club came in for me, I wasn’t allowed to go there so in the end it was a choice between Tranmere and Galatasary”. Most Tranmere fans will agree that from their point of view, he made the right choice!
Also, asked what it was like at Tranmere while he was there he replied “They are a very good team and were unlucky three years in a row not to get to the Premiership”
Nevin’s last appearance for Tranmere at Prenton Park was as a substitute in the 1-1 draw with Barnsley at the end of the 1996-97 season and his last match in a Rovers shirt was again as a substitute in a 2-0 defeat against QPR at Loftus Road on the final day of the season. Nevin moved on to pastures new in 1997, ending a 14 year spell in England by returning to his Scottish homeland to play for Kilmarnock. After one season there he signed for Kilmarnock for two seasons before retiring from playing football.
He remained associated with the game however, becoming Director of Football at Motherwell and has more recently been noted for his work in Radio and TV particularly alongside John Barnes on Channel Five. Speaking on the appointment of a new Manager for the Scottish National Team, Nevin came up with a classic clanger - "I don't want to sound homophobic, but I want a Scottish manager."
‘Wee’ Pat Nevin will always be fondly remembered by Rovers fans for his contribution to what was at the time a great team and he deservedly takes his place in the Total Tranmere Rovers Dream Team. But who’s up next? The next two polls will determine who the Central Midfielders will be in the Total Tranmere Rovers Dream Team so get voting now for the first of these positions. Remember, every vote can count.