Talk:Paul Merson

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In the 06-07 season he played agianst Bournemouth for walsall.

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Whitton Athletic
Surely Merson's appearances for "Chiswick & District Sunday League side Whitton Athletic" should be removed from his template? If we listed the Sunday League team of every ex-pro the templates would all end up huge, and be impossible to source. Merson's two later teams were both in the Welsh football league system, so should stay. Nonleagueapps (talk) 21:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

"By the 1988–89 season he was a regular on the right wing"
He wasn't playing on the right wing in 1988-9.

Merson was playing as a no.10. A creative striker alongside Alan Smith, the no.9 and classic, old skool back to goal centre forward.

David Rocastle played every game that season as the right winger. Rocastle was injured during the 1990-1 season, and for the last ten games, a young Arsenal striker, Kevin Campbell, came in to play as the 2nd striker alongside Alan Smith with Merson moving to the right wing, with Limpar staying on the left.

In the 1991-2 season, George Graham kept this 4-4-2 system, with Limpar and Merson out wide. A now fir Rocastle moved to centre-midfield, and after signing Ian Wright in autumn '91, he played two of Smith, Campbell and Wright as the strikers. Towards the end of that season, Merson and Limpar swapped flanks.

He stayed on the flanks, often on the left, until the summer of '97 when he left.

But his whole career until Kev Campbell broke into the first team towards the end of the end of the 1990-'91 season was spent as a No.10 creative central striker. And in 1988-9, Rocastle started every game as the right winger.

Ganpati23 (talk) 15:14, 30 October 2021 (UTC)