article_snippet: Paul Canoville talked vividly and emotionally, for example, about warming up as a sub for Paul Canoville debut at Crystal Palace the next year, and thinking 'are they for real?' as Paul Canoville heard a torrent of racial abuse.
article_snippet: Then on turning and telling they to 'say that to my face', Paul Canoville discovered 'it was my own fans'. '
article_snippet: All I wanted to do was get off the pitch,' Paul Canoville added, and this was only the beginning of how life was going to be as a pioneer at the club.
article_snippet: In between Paul's heartfelt confessions are testimonials from other men who'd had a vested interest in Paul Canoville's career.
article_snippet: And they all gave a vivid context to the times in which Paul Canoville was making his way in the game.
article_snippet: While Pat Nevin, a team-mate of Paul Canoville's, had seen and heard this hardcore of 'not fans...
article_snippet: Ultimately though, Michael Duberry was able to talk in the documentary about 'the luxury' of just being able to be a footballer because of what Canoville had gone through.
article_snippet: It is a life-affirming story, and one that not only hopefully confirms that those tales from the Eighties are fundamentally a thing of the past, but also that Canoville has a future that is well worth looking forward to.
highlights_snippet: The new Sky Sports documentary goes through the life of Paul Canoville .
  
highlights_snippet: Canoville career ended in injury, going broke, turning to drugs, getting clean, twice being diagnosed and beating cancer, and losing a nine-day-old son .