Peter Marinello

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playername = Peter Marinello


fullname = Peter Marinello
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1950|2|20
cityofbirth = Edinburgh
countryofbirth = Scotland
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position = Forward, right winger
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years = 1968-1970 1970-1973 1973-1975 1975-1978 1978 1978-1980 1980-1981 1981-1983 1983-1984
clubs = Hibernian Arsenal Portsmouth Motherwell Canberra City SC Fulham Phoenix Inferno Heart of Midlothian Partick Thistle
caps(goals) = 45 0(5) 38 0(3) 95 0(7) 89 (12) -- (-) 27 0(1) -- (-) 21 0(3) 06 0(0)
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Peter Marinello (born in Edinburgh on February 20 1950) is a Scottish former footballer.

Marinello started his career at Hibernian, and could play either as a forward or right winger. He was regarded as being talented enough there that he was dubbed "the next George Best" by the British press. [cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/04/03/peter_marinello_feature.shtml | title=Peter Marinello speaks to BBC London 94.9 | work=BBC ] In January 1970 he joined Arsenal for £100,000 (a club record fee and the first time Arsenal had paid a six-figure sum for a player) and he scored on his debut, against Manchester United at Old Trafford on January 10 1970.

However after that his career quickly took a downturn, a combination of homesickness, his celebrity lifestyle and heavy drinking and a knee injury led to a dip in form which meant he was left out of Arsenal's first team; he did not take part in Arsenal's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup triumph of 1970 and only played three matches in their 1970-71 Double-winning campaign. Unable to break into the first team consistently in his Arsenal career, he only played eight league matches in 1971-72 and thirteen in 1972-73; he eventually left Arsenal in July 1973 for Portsmouth after failing to agree a new contract. In total he played 51 matches for Arsenal, scoring five goals.

He later played for Motherwell, Fulham, Phoenix Inferno, Heart of Midlothian and Partick Thistle. Though he retired a wealthy man,cite web | url=http://www.fourfourtwo.premiumtv.co.uk/page/BooksDetail/0,,11442~1015400,00.html | title=Peter Marinello - Fallen Idle | work=FourFourTwo] a failed business venture left him bankrupt in 1994,cite web | url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/sport.cfm?id=109872005 | title=Glamour long gone but Marinello keeps mellow | work=The Scotsman ] and he suffered a nervous breakdown. He now lives in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Footnotes

References

*cite book
author=Harris, Jeff & Hogg, Tony (ed.)
title=Arsenal Who's Who
publisher=Independent UK Sports
year=1995
id=ISBN 1-899429-03-4

External links

* [http://jkarlsson.netfirms.com/players/m/marinello_p/ Statistics on Gunnermania]
* [http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/comment/article2434951.ece An email conversation with Peter Marinello: 'On my day I would like to say I was as good as Ryan Giggs']
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/scotland/6659977.stm BBC article on Marinello]
* [http://arseblog.com/WP/2007/06/22/arseblog-meets-peter-marinello/ Marinello talks to Arseblog.com's 'Arsecast']