Editing Linvoy Primus (section)

==Early life==
Primus was born the first child of Newton and Pauline Primus in Forest Gate Hospital, [[Forest Gate]], Greater London on 14 September 1973.<ref>{{cite book
| last= Primus| first=Linvoy| title = Linvoy Primus: Transformed| publisher = Legendary Publishing| year = 2007| page = 14| chapter = All the way to Charlton| isbn=978-0-9526760-2-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/bsp/hi/football/statistics/players/p/primus_10280.stm|title=Squad Profiles – Linvoy Primus|work=BBC Sport|access-date=23 December 2009|archive-date=28 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528213855/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/bsp/hi/football/statistics/players/p/primus_10280.stm|url-status=dead}}</ref> His Jamaican-born mother worked as an orderly at Whipps Cross Hospital in nearby [[Leytonstone]]. Primus' father, who was born in [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|St. Vincent and the Grenadines]], worked for Thames Water as an engineer.<ref>{{cite book
| last= Primus| page = 15| title = Linvoy Primus: Transformed}}</ref> His parents are practising Christians who took Linvoy to church and Sunday school when he was young. In his autobiography he wrote that church was "a cold unwelcoming place" for him as a child but that it "instilled in [him] a very strong sense of right and wrong".<ref name="early church and Villa">{{cite book
| last= Primus| pages = 17–18| title = Linvoy Primus: Transformed}}</ref>

Primus attributed his desire to become a footballer from watching [[Ricardo Villa|Ricky Villa]]'s winning goal for [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] against [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] in the [[1981 FA Cup Final#Replay|1981 FA Cup Final Replay]].<ref name="early church and Villa"/> He played his first game of football two years later in a match between two [[Cub Scout]] groups and, because of his performance, he was offered a trial with the Newham District Schools under-11's by one of the Cub Scout leaders who was the manager of the Newham team. Primus was a [[Forward (association football)|striker]] or [[Midfielder#Winger|right winger]] at this time; in the team was future Portsmouth teammate [[Sol Campbell]] who played in [[Midfielder|midfield]].<ref>{{cite book
| last= Primus| page = 19| title = Linvoy Primus: Transformed}}</ref>