Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Martin Peters RIP

2

Comments

  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,475
    Oh wow.
    A gentleman and a scholar of the first order, both on and off the pitch.
    RIP.......Old Chap......RIP.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    RIP a legend whose name will always live in the hearts of English football supporters.
  • Harry Gregory
    Harry Gregory Posts: 869
    Another one gone of the Boys of 66. Great player and a dignified man, RIP.  
  • TN15
    TN15 Posts: 57
    Sad news, RIP
  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,333
    Elegant player who was ahead of his time. RIP.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Always thought he would have gone on to be a very good manager. Great footballer though. RIP
  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    Top player and decent bloke.
    Played 206 games for Norwich city and I saw him play many times.
    Probably the best footballer I've ever seen.
    Much talk of him ghosting from midfield to score but he had the ability to play in many positions.
    Could defend and I think I remember him playing centre half and full back as well as an accomplished midfilder and striker.
    Sad day for Norwich City F.C. and football supporters everywhere who were privileged to see him play.
    Thanks for the memories Martin Peters, R.I.P. 

  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,779
    Just read that he had Alzheimer’s. Awful disease.
    Makes me hope that, sad as this news is, it may have been a blessing.
    Lots of West Ham in my family, they’ll be gutted today.

    RIP
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    I think it's because they were household names when I started watching football, when people like Martin Peters and Gordon Banks pass away I do feel very, very sad. 

    Like I said to a colleague who had no interest in football who asked me about George Best when he died, Martin Peters really was as good as they say he was.

    RIP
  • Sponsored links:



  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    RIP Martin World Cup Winner and elegant player who scored his fair share of goals ghosting in from midfield.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,457
    RIP
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,440
    Lovely man, had the privilege of meeting him, so understated despite what he achieved. RIP
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    RIP
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    This is really sad. What a fucking legend.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    Remember him playing for Spurs with Ralph Coates and Alan Gilzean.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    So sad to hear the news.  I met him at a Spurs Legends event just after the 2008 Carling Cup Final.  Such a gentleman.

    Was only at Spurs for 5 years but won the UEFA Cup and 2 League Cups playing behind Martin Chivers.  I believe he won the ECWC with West Ham too.
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,825
    Thanks for all the wonderful memories Martin, you were exciting and a pleasure to watch.
                   RIP
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    RIP
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,181
    If some of the mediocre midfielders are worth £50 mil what would Martin Peters be worth now? A true legend and a English Gentleman. Thanks for the memories. RIP.
  • Sponsored links:



  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    usetobunkin said:
    If some of the mediocre midfielders are worth £50 mil what would Martin Peters be worth now? A true legend and a English Gentleman. Thanks for the memories. RIP.
    Norwich City signed him from Spurs for £50,000.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,147
    RIP. 
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    RIP
    Saw him play for Sheffield Utd at the Valley in 80/81. I think I saw Alan Ball playing for Portsmouth that season as well. Two of the youngest players in the 66 team. 
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    RIP to the Ghost.
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 390
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    RIP
    Saw him play for Sheffield Utd at the Valley in 80/81. I think I saw Alan Ball playing for Portsmouth that season as well. Two of the youngest players in the 66 team. 
    Alan Ball was with Blackpool but yes both World Cup legends were player-mangers/coaches in the 3rd division in 80-81 and saw them both.
    Also remember Martin Peters scoring all 4 in a 4-0 Spurs win at Old Trafford.
    Also his parting was very pronounced on his coin in the Esso World Cup 70's collection which he was the face for popping up on the front of garages across the country. Lovely to hear he was a true gent.
    RIP Martin.

  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Legend as far as we who were alive and watched the 1966 World Cup win are concerned .. terrific player who deserved to win more at club level
    R I P
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    RIP
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,547
    RIP, class player and one of my boyhood hero's (for England, not the hammers!)
    When England won the World Cup, he lived next door but one to the house that I later bought in Hornchurch. Our mutual neighbour Isobel was good friends with Martin and his wife and she still lives there. Geoff Hurst lived in the next Road and their 2 gardens backed onto each other. 
    Small 3 bed semi's in Hornchurch, for World Cup winners! How times have changed
  • CafcSCP
    CafcSCP Posts: 1,464
    RIP ! Forever one of the legends.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    One of England's finest ever footballers and forever a legend for that glorious day in July 1966. 53 years ago - my God.

    RIP Martin.

Categories

“Marketplace”