Paul Mariner – My Rock and Roll Football Story

When a famous footballer's story contains as many non-football tales as those from on the pitch then you know it has been a life well lived. Paul Mariner is a Plymouth Argyle hero – with a little help from Pelé and a lifeguard on Southport beach – an F.A. Cup and UEFA Cup winner with Bobby Robson's Ipswich Town, a scorer for England at the 1982 World Cup and a former Arsenal and Portsmouth striker who ended his career playing up front with George Best in a charity match while only partially sober. Not a bad haul for a mechanical engineering student who gave up football as a teenager to go and play cricket with future England rugby captain Bill Beaumont instead!

A true front man in every sense – talented, brave and fearless – but ultimately his toughest fight was yet to come. Paul Mariner was diagnosed with the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma in October 2020 and passed away in July 2021.

This autobiography, complete with the help of his family, looks at Paul's long and successful playing career at Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town, Arsenal, Portsmouth and England as well as his later years in the USA both as a player and coach in the MLS. Published in 2021.

Size: 160mm x 241mm – 336 pages.