Peter Marinello

[Tambo]

After the sad news of today's passing of Peter Cormack, I was just in my own world thinking of all the players my dad would tell me about and Marinello came to mind.

Didn't play much for us, earned a big money move to Arsenal and even played for them.

One I will admit I don't know to much about but my dad told me he was a real talent, injuries? Party lifestyle? Bit of both? Seemed to go downhill after arsenal clubwise.

[Pagan Hibernia]

Before my time but I'm told he was seen as the new George Best before he moved to Arsenal. Talented, good looking lad

[IberianHibernian]

After the sad news of today's passing of Peter Cormack, I was just in my own world thinking of all the players my dad would tell me about and Marinello came to mind.

Didn't play much for us, earned a big money move to Arsenal and even played for them.

One I will admit I don't know to much about but my dad told me he was a real talent, injuries? Party lifestyle? Bit of both? Seemed to go downhill after arsenal clubwise.Was a fantastic player , fast and very skilful . Different times obviously but when you say " EVEN played for them " he wouldn`t have left us to go to Arsenal ( at that time like now one of England`s biggest clubs ) unless hje was going to play regularly . If we`d drawn Arsenal in a European competition at the time we`d have given them a good couple of matches and it wouldn`t have been a surprise if we`d won . As for going downhill clubwise , definitely true - think he played for Hearts for a while .

[heretoday]

He was exploited by London media sleazos, even guesting as a Top of the Pops presenter which was excruciatingly awkward as you can imagine. All that diverted him from the main thing which was playing for Arsenal. It didn't last long. He blew his big chance but he was a fish out of water and not half as savvy or as good as Best to whom he was compared.
Looks aren't everything!

[Bridge hibs]

He was exploited by London media sleazos, even guesting as a Top of the Pops presenter which was excruciatingly awkward as you can imagine. All that diverted him from the main thing which was playing for Arsenal. It didn't last long. He blew his big chance but he was a fish out of water and not half as savvy or as good as Best to whom he was compared.
Looks aren't everything!There was a drinking culture with hibs, Arsenal and other clubs and as a young lad he got sucked into it by the more senior players and he saw that as the norm. He also had to support his Wife as she suffered from mental health issues and was in and out of institutions at the time, not made easy when he was travelling from country to country to ply his trade.

His book Fallen Idle is a good read.

[BILLYHIBS]

Remember Hibs went on a glorious start to the season under Willie MacFarlane unbeaten going to top of the league playing attractive attacking football beating Celtic and Hearts went to Mordor and beat them 3-1

The wily MacFarlane played Marinello through the middle and he cut through the Hun defence like a knife through butter scoring twice they had no answer to his pace and dribbling skills

I still remember the headlines on the Pink News that night ‘ Punchinello Rocks The ‘ Gers ‘

I don’t think he ever wanted to go to Arsenal it was a move too soon

[Tom Hart RIP]

Was a fantastic player , fast and very skilful . Different times obviously but when you say " EVEN played for them " he wouldn`t have left us to go to Arsenal ( at that time like now one of England`s biggest clubs ) unless hje was going to play regularly . If we`d drawn Arsenal in a European competition at the time we`d have given them a good couple of matches and it wouldn`t have been a surprise if we`d won . As for going downhill clubwise , definitely true - think he played for Hearts for a while .


Arsenal won the double a couple of years later then signed Alex Cropley.
Crops once told me that the Hibs team he left was better than the team he joined.
We were that good at the time.

[Ray_]

Arsenal won the double a couple of years later then signed Alex Cropley.
Crops once told me that the Hibs team he left was better than the team he joined.
We were that good at the time.

He was brought in to provide George Armstrong with competition/replace, at the start of 1970. The signing kicked George up the pants he needed and Armstrong finished the season as their "player of the year". Armstrong played all their games, the following season as Arsenal's ageing side won the double.

Peter had gone through a mini dip in form, as Hibs did, just after the Ibrox win and just before the NY derby & there were rumours that he would be benched, for the game. This was before Arsenal came in for him. As said, he was there particularly to put pressure on George Armstrong, but also to raise the standards of young players at Arsenal, as records show, the batch that came through, following their double, was of a poor standard & it was only in the mid-seventies that the likes of Brady, Stapleton & O'Leary, would emerge.

Marinello had a dream start, in the fact he scored, on his debut, at Old Trafford, although his team got beat 2-1, especially with the false comparisons going on with George Best. He spent a couple of years at Arsenal, as decline set in and his inability to get a starting spot, before Arsenal recouped their 100k from Portsmouth.

Sodjer was right, Arsenal were a basket case of a club when he joined them in November 1974, whereas Hibs could compete with the top end of English football and their European displays against Leeds & Liverpool.

[A Hi-Bee]

There was a drinking culture with hibs, Arsenal and other clubs and as a young lad he got sucked into it by the more senior players and he saw that as the norm. He also had to support his Wife as she suffered from mental health issues and was in and out of institutions at the time, not made easy when he was travelling from country to country to ply his trade.

His book Fallen Idle is a good read.

He was another in a long line of very talented players sold off by Hibs, i think his replacement turned out pretty good for us, this was at a time when we also replaced Colin Stein with Joe McBride, never missed Stein. Peter Cormack was harder to replace and we had to wait until Alex Cropley broke into the team.
No lack of real quality players at Hibs just a pity the second greens had such a good manager and team at the time.

[heretoday]

I reckon Marinello was most successful at Motherwell playing with Willie Pettigrew. Talk about beauty and the beast!

[Houston7]

Before my time but I'm told he was seen as the new George Best before he moved to Arsenal. Talented, good looking lad

I recall in the late 60s being one of the linesmen in a Juvenile Final (at City Park?), when Peter was playing for Salvesons. Although playing on the right wing, he scored several goals. He also used to visit the Cephas Club (no alcohol!), where I was a volunteer.

[greenpaper55]

Changed days, I used to pick him up on Sunday from his mums house in Logic Green with a bunch of friends and he was happy to sit in the back of the van and go for a couple of pints., no super star life style when he was at ER.

[Alfred E Newman]

It seems a lifetime ago but every time there is a mention of Marinello I immediately picture him skipping gracefully down the wing in his baseball boots on a frozen Easter Road. The only player on the pitch that day that wasn’t sliding about all over the place. Great memories.