Just thought of Paul Mullen

Lord Smythe · **Posted:** Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:00 pm

Chris Rea's 'Driving Home For Christmas' has just been on the radio and it
made me think of Paul..... I miss Mr. Mullen, top Poolie and genuine nice bloke
to boot!

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

i second that Paul
would he have loved these last two or three of seasons

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:42 pm

i third that Paul was a very nice guy and always helpful.

Spender · **Posted:** Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:20 pm

I only met him once in the very first mutterings of Pooliekev, and he was indeed a gent. :wink:

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

I met him many times - always a good man with time to chat and have a laugh. Had a great time talking to him at the wedding of Wallis & Grommit (of Monkey Business) only to find out we went to the same college in London at the same time and saw the same bands. Also sat with him at the play off match at Bristol City when we lost in the last few minutes with Eifion playing right back for the injured Mickey Barron.
His passing was a sad loss.

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:52 am

I still wake up screaming about that game. rage

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37080

...and thank god for fanzines.....pre interenet they were a MONSTER IMPROVEMENT upon two letters in the footy mail.... and that's what I'll always associate Paul with... that and the phone calls telling me the deadline for the cartoons was a couple of days away... he put you under pressure in the nicest possible way and you just couldn't disappoint... happy days. :wink:

Frank_Reid · **Joined:** Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:45 pm **Posts:** 473

One and only ..... It would be nice and right if when "THE BOOK" comes out that Paul Mullen and people like him are given their due place in the history of Hartlepool United. After all he and they was and are part in its history.... Facts are facts...

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:26 am

Frank_Reid wrote:

One and only ..... It would be nice and right if when "THE BOOK" comes out that Paul Mullen and people like him are given their due place in the history of Hartlepool United. After all he and they was and are part in its history.... Facts are facts...

Albatross · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:20 pm

I usually tried to have a word with PM when I saw him at away matches, a proper gent and Pools through and through. I remember thinking at the Playoff Final how he'd have loved it, no less for having (like many of us) been working out how to get to Swansea a few short years previously in case it turned out to be our last league game....

Getting him on the offical side at Pools was a master stroke for the club - and communications between club and fans were surely never better. He knew where the fans would be online and made the effort to find us and answer what questions he could - the number of times "Oi, You! PM" must have appeared on Rivals as a thread title must have been huge. A top bloke, a top Pools fan, and a sad loss all round.

Lord Smythe · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:35 pm

I still chuckle to this day when I reminisce of how he used to pull up
at away ground car parks gates and proudly annouce, "Paul Mullen Hartlepool United" and after the car park attendant consulted his clip board would more often than not respond, "Your not on the list, sorry" .... PM would then have to reverse and park up in some nearby side street yet again.

Paul Mullen miss him so much and never far from my thoughts!

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:05 pm

Never forget the Holland trip to watch pool's with arnish. drum. smythe. poolymad . mullen. and a host of others it was a cracking tour.

Just thought of Paul Mullen

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