By Matt Badcock

PETER SMITH can still see the goal Pele scored for the New York Cosmos against his LA Aztecs in 1976.
“We basically just stood in awe,” Smith tells The NLP. “The ball came to him on his chest. It didn’t touch the floor, he flicked it over a lad called Jose Lopez’s head, and volleyed it with the opposite foot into the top corner. You think to yourself, ‘That’s not bad’.”
Smith is Marine’s all-time record appearance holder having joined from Wrexham in March 1974 after deciding to leave with the Welsh club noncommittal on a pro deal.
“In the end I got a call off the Wrexham s...