OBITUARY: Paul Mariner hailed as ‘a top player and a top man’ by former team-mates Alan Brazil and Mick Mills after ex-Ipswich and England striker dies aged 68 following battle with brain cancer
England’s horizons were rather different when Paul Mariner scored the most important goal of his international career. It was November 1981, Hungary were the visitors to Wembley and World Cup qualification was in the balance after the shock of losing the previous game in Norway. England, having failed to reach the finals in 1974 or…