Also a very clever man I think he was a financial advisor or something along these lines. One of the few players who smoked at the time
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Marinello's in Leith Walk was down near the bottom, left hand side going down the Walk it used to be called Copperfields and it would stay open at the time to 4 in the morning, so I was told Hic.
Peter was a really nice guy sometimes he was taken a loan of by some real nasty ones.
Great player in his day and well remember the newspaper headlines when Him and Joe McBride senior destroyed the hun at Ipox when the swapped numbers and places on the park.
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Great thread. Reading through it, I was struck by the subjects raised, that would merit a thread of their own:
1. The cultural differences between Hibs and Hearts.
2. Why modern players can’t cross a ball.
3. Missionary sex (is it dull?)
3. Not with a beautiful woman.
2. Ball is too light now and needs too much precision.
1. Tynecastle is where the golf club meets neo fascism. Hearts pompous, arrogant and judgemental. Maroon is a horrible color for a strip. Gorgie depressing and dark and smells. Their owners sum them up Mercer, Robinson, Romanov and Budge.
Your comment on the colour maroon reminded me of a piece of writing by the Scottish poet, Alan Bold. Alan was a great Hibs man & IIRC his piece eulogised the colour green. He talked about freshness, the colour of the grass and spring etc. He then described maroon as (i paraphrase)"last night's cheap red wine spilled in an overflowing ashtray".
Perfect really!!
Sums it up perfectly. Or when you have drunk that cheap bottle of wine. Get up in the middle of the night feeling sick. Don't make it to the bathroom and spew over your fawn bedroom carpet. So unwell you just go back to bed. Wake up in the morning feeling awful and you see the maroon stain on the carpet and feel sick again.
Pretty sure I read that ‘Nello was first introduced to the ‘big team’ on the tour of Ghana and Nigeria where the locals although obviously biased were applauding and oohing and aahing at Marinello’s speed, ball control, trickery, dribbling skills and all round wing wizardry
They just could not get enough
I think John "spud" Murphy, like Peter was new to the squad ]
Some trivia
Efe Ambrose played for a club in Nigeria Hibs met on that tour.
Hibernian.... first British club to tour Africa
One of the teams we played on the tour did not have boots for all their players.
Hibs gave them boots.
Or it was going to be barefoot !!
True story !
Dunno about that the club seem to think so Africa ( Nigeria and Ghana )
http://www.hibshistoricaltrust.org.u...ds/first-stats
I know my local club Blackpool toured Nigeria, Ghana and then called Rhodesia in 1960. They played 8 games winning 7 of them. Tour started on May 4th. Im sure other must have toured too.