[News] RIP Paul Mariner

[John Byrnes Mullet]

Great player RIP.

 

[brulee]

Saw him score against Hungary to take us to world cup in Spain 82. It was a good atmosphere Wembley and spain

 

[PeakGull]

The first Albion game I went to was against Plymouth at the Goldstone and a young Paul Mariner was in the Plymouth team.

 

[Guinness Boy]

One of the first players I remember as I became aware of football on the telly. He scored goals and had a mullet and memorable name. That was good enough for me. RIP

 

[Justice]

He did support a fantastic mullet permed at the back I seem to recall.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Sad that such a great player has passed - and at such a relatively young age.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

One of the first players I remember as I became aware of football on the telly. He scored goals and had a mullet and memorable name. That was good enough for me. RIP

With a surname like Mariner, perhaps his first professional club was bound to be from the naval city of Plymouth.

So an apt, as well as a memorable name.

 

[Blue3]

That’s a shocker in my mind it seems like he was only playing the other day, very sad RIP thoughts and prayers to his family and all who knew him

 

[rebel51]

Yeh sad, rest in peace

 

[theboybilly]

RIP Paul. A great player

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Too young to die... an excellent player who did a lot for Ipswich Town , in the days when the top league was. more open and a small provincial club could rise to the top with good management.
RIP indeed

 

[Brownstuff]

Growing up in the early 80's a lot of us aspired to be the Paul Mariner's of this world in the football playgrounds
Later in the decade a similar player was Mark Hateley, Harry Kane is now the modern day version
They were all 6ft 4 odd strikers who could all header a ball and that was what England was about long punt up field to these strikers who had good first touch
When I think of the admiral kit Paul Mariner's name always crops up first in the memory

 

[herecomesaregular]

I didn't start supporting the Albion until after 1986 as I had no good influences (dad, older brother not much interested in football). Before that I was a full kit wanker Ipswich Town prepubescent fan and Paul Mariner about 1980 was my favourite player. My allegiance followed him to Arsenal briefly. In retrospect it was down to a combination of the influence of Bobby Robson, a glorious mullet and how cool he looked in the England strip in a Pannini sticker album.