James Neale (field hockey)

Jimmy Neale
Personal information
Born Q4.1945
Colchester, England
Senior career
Years Team
1966 Colchester
1968–1978 Southgate
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
– Great Britain
– England 42

James N. Neale (born Q4.1945) is a former British hockey international and convicted drug smuggler.

Biography

While paying for Colchester, Neale played for the England U23 squad in 1966.[1]

Neale primarily played club hockey for Southgate Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League.[2]

While at Southgate he played for England at the 1973 Men's Hockey World Cup in Amstelveen,[3] captained England[4] and was selected by England for the 1975 Men's Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur.[5][6]

He was part of the Southgate team that won the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup for three successive years in 1976, 1977 and 1978.[7]

In 1980, Neale a lawyer by trade, was struck off the Law Society for breaking accounting rules.[8]

In 2002, Neale was convicted of smuggling 270,000 ecstasy tablets into Australia.[9] He received a life sentence, which was later reduced to 15 years.[10]

References

  1. ^ "England hockey XI". Belfast Telegraph. 23 March 1966. Retrieved 6 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "Lancashire players in trial". Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition). 18 February 1969. Retrieved 3 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "England keep hockey cup hopes alive". Hull Daily Mail. 27 August 1973. Retrieved 3 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "England trials at Aldridge". Walsall Observer. 22 February 1974. Retrieved 3 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "England name hockey squad". Liverpool Daily Post. 19 December 1974. Retrieved 3 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Hat-tricks, hospitality and honour: recalling the 1975 men's Hockey World Cup". The Hockey Museum. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  7. ^ "Europes's other champions chase a hat-trick too". Evening News (London). 12 May 1978. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Champagne Jimmy's Life Goes Pop". Daily Mirror. 5 June 1980. Retrieved 3 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Former hockey star faces jail for drug smuggling racket". The Independent. 27 August 2002. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  10. ^ "Triads, drugs and high-rise death: a jail tale". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
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