Well....

In an interview with the Stoke Sentinel last year, our Neil said: “Everybody in football knows me as ‘Shoes’ and not many people believe my explanation because that’s as boring as the nickname. Basically, the character Neil in The Young Ones released a song called Hole In My Shoe, and his first line was ‘Hello shoes’. When I turned up at training the day after he’d been on Top of the Pops, Graham Shaw started calling me Shoes ... just because my name is Neil. It later followed me to Everton because Adrian ‘Inchy’ Heath was there too, and it’s been with me ever since.”

Posted By: DrDublin, Jan 30, 12:51:28