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Legend Mariner Thanks Fans For Messages of Support Following Surgery Tuesday, 3rd Nov 2020 10:03
Blues legend Paul Mariner says he’s “fighting” and has “incredible people looking after [him]” having undergone serious surgery.
Mariner’s Town strike partner Alan Brazil revealed on talkSPORT late last week that the 67-year-old had had a major operation, understood to have been to remove a brain tumour.
The England frontman (pictured above with team-mate Terry Butcher on his most recent visit to Portman Road in December last year), widely viewed as the greatest in the Blues' history, subsequently received messages of support from fans of all his clubs, Chorley, Plymouth, Town, Arsenal and Portsmouth, on social media and responded to one from the Talking Town podcast earlier this morning.
Mariner, who now is understood to be back at home, scored 135 goals in 339 appearances for the Blues between 1976 and 1984 and was a member of the team which won the FA Cup in 1978 and the side which carried off the UEFA Cup in 1981.
Thank you, I’m fighting and have incredible people looking after me https://t.co/9e3FcVikmC
That towering header against Liverpool at PR not long after he joined is still my all time favourite PM goal and probably the best ever headed goal for Town, just eclipsing Marcus's in the play off final...
Without doubt PM was a superb traditional center forward and is one of the best players ITFC have ever had, as others have said he is a really nice chap and I sincerely hope he has a full recovery from what is an awful operation. I have to say thinking back to the protracted transfer saga that brought him to ITFC from Plymouth Argyle, Bobby Robson had already sold David Johnson to Liverpool for £200k at the start of the season but PM didn't get to PRoad until October, as always there was no money at Ipswich and a deal was done for circa £150k cash with two of our players going the other way, the overall result was a reduction of wages on the whole deal and a few thousand in cash in the bank to help with other expenses!! I can only imagine what most supporters would be saying if that happened in this day and age.
Really hoping for a complete recovery for best forward player in the greatest sides 76-81 . Would be unbearable if this condition is linked to all those great headed goals .
I've been coming to Portman Road since September 1974 and he is, simply, my favourite player of all time, bar none. An absolute top, top player and absolute legend.
I wish you all the luck in the world, for the fullest recovery possible.
PAUL MARINER IPSWICH TOWN RED BACK TOPPS CHEWING GUM CARD 1977 CARD NO 180 Still the best card in the series! All the best mate, from a fellow brain-surgery survivor!
A year or two ago my son, also called Paul met him in a pub in London and when he told him I used to watch him play he said '"get him on the phone then and I'll speak to him". What a shock I got when I answered the phone and we had a lovely chat. Terrific bloke.
I just loved watching him play at first with Trevor Whymark (the most underrated Town no.10 who was also one of the top English strikers of the day)& then with Alan Brazil - he's was unplayable at times - I remember an interview with a Barcelona defender in Shoot magazine, where he said Mariner was the best player he'd had to play against. So many great goals - the winning header against Liverpool, the cracker v WBA & and a stunner past Shilton in front of the packed North Stand - TWTD !
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