Nigel Martyn

[esox lucius]

Several years ago David Moyes commented that Martyn was his greatest ever signing for Everton.
Mikel Arteta was on Loan to Everton from Real Sociedad when Martyn was at the club.
Martyn was resident in Shirley when he played for our club.
A thoroughly decent human being.

Saw him a few times in the Sandrock pub in Shirley. At the time I did wonder if he lived locally.

 

[martin2412]

Saw him a few times in the Sandrock pub in Shirley. At the time I did wonder if he lived locally.

He probably lived in Bishops Walk, where Ian Wright used to live.

 

[kingdowieonthewall]

when we used to go regularly, mrs had an autograph book.
spoke with Nigel M in players lounge and came back with
" Arsenal are s***"
signed nigel martyn.
🙂
top guy.

we used to sponser 'killer' Pattersons kit around same time possibly?

 

[kingdowieonthewall]

He probably lived in Bishops Walk, where Ian Wright used to live.

amount of times ive painted at Bishops walk.
never earnt much...pennies.
tightest, piss taking punters ever.
its on my naughty punters list, banned.

lovely houses though...

 

[Save Dwindlehurst]

I think that was the same season where when we played them away, Gascoigne scored a direct free kick at our end (Park Lane) while big Nige was still trying to arrange his wall, and wasn't ready.

And we equalized in front of our fans. The whole end erupted! Geoff Thomas?

 

[BromleyMonkey]

We were unlucky that night. The difference was Paul Gascoigne. He was fantastic that game….It was around the time of Italia ‘90.

Still one of the best players I’ve ever seen at Selhurst and always in my best England team of all time
I went up to Newcastle when they beat us in the fa cup and he scored the winner, he stood out then as well

 

[cryrst]

Still one of the best players I’ve ever seen at Selhurst and always in my best England team of all time
I went up to Newcastle when they beat us in the fa cup and he scored the winner, he stood out then as well

A very narrow gap between a genius and a madman. He was exactly that !

 

[BromleyMonkey]

A very narrow gap between a genius and a madman. He was exactly that !

They don’t make ‘em like they used too🤣

 

[RubinsCube]

Still one of the best players I’ve ever seen at Selhurst and always in my best England team of all time
I went up to Newcastle when they beat us in the fa cup and he scored the winner, he stood out then as well

Long range volley - only goal of the game - top corner - looked freezing (I saw the highlights on tv) - 1988. We had the gold away kit and there was not a snood in sight on either team. Annoyingly I remember it well thinking "George Wood is over the hill - FFS how did he not get to that he had about 15 minutes to move 4 metres?".

In truth it was a superb strike and I remember thinking the same about David Seaman several years later ("is he going to have a crack? He is, you know...").

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Long range volley - only goal of the game - top corner - looked freezing (I saw the highlights on tv) - 1988. We had the gold away kit and there was not a snood in sight on either team. Annoyingly I remember it well thinking "George Wood is over the hill - FFS how did he not get to that he had about 15 minutes to move 4 metres?".

In truth it was a superb strike and I remember thinking the same about David Seaman several years later ("is he going to have a crack? He is, you know...").

We were sitting in a temporary scaffold stand long before their ground looked like it does now. It was a great strike from Gazza, he actually missed an easy chance right in front of us and our whole end went up with the wanker sign, but Gazza being Gazza took it in good humour