Non-League Paper

GILDING THE MARINERS: 125 NOT OUT

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
13 October 2019

By Matt Badcock

COMMEMORATIVE: Barry Lenton put together a picture-book that chronicles the highs and lows of the past 125 years at Marine FC

JAMIE CARRAGHER used to, endearingly, make the most of Barry Lenton’s love for Marine.
The Mariners’ super fan used to teach the former Liverpool star at Savio High School in Bootle.
“He used to sit next to one of his cousins and on a Monday morning he’d put his hand up,” Lenton, a former geography teacher, recalls.
“I’d think, what is he going to ask, thinking it would be about geography. ‘How did Ma...

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