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LEGEND ROB’S REIGN IS OVER

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 October 2025

By Neil Harvey

END OF AN ERA: Robert Briggs has left South Shields after 11 years at the 1st Cloud Arena
PICTURE: Alamy

FANS’ favourite Robert Briggs, the most decorated player in South Shields’ history, has left the club after 11 years.
The 33-year-old is the only Mariners player ever to play, and score, for the club in five different leagues.
Since rejoining the club for a second spell as a teenager on 2015, Briggs has made a club record 457 appearances, scoring 92 goals, and winning four promotions, taking the Mariners from Northern League Division Two at Step 6...

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