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Paul Linger (20 December 1974 – 1 October 2021) was an English professional
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played in
the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
as a
midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...
, Leyton Orient and Brighton & Hove Albion. He went on to play
non-League football Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually, it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it is specifically used to de ...
for clubs including
Welling United Welling United Football Club is a professional football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley, England. The club's first team play in the National League South, at the sixth tier of English football. History Welling United Foot ...
,
Billericay Town Billericay Town Football Club is a football club based in Billericay, Essex, England. The club are currently members of and play at New Lodge. They are the second most successful club in FA Vase history, having won the competition on three o ...
,
Braintree Town Braintree Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Braintree, Essex, England. They are currently members of and play at Cressing Road. History The club was formed on 24 September 1898 as Manor Works, the works team o ...
, Purfleet/Thurrock, East Thurrock United, Wingate and Finchley, Chelmsford City, Redbridge, and
Dover Athletic Dover Athletic Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in the town of Dover, Kent, England. The club currently competes in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football. The club was formed in 198 ...
. Linger represented the United Kingdom at the
2005 Maccabiah Games The 17th Maccabiah Games ( he, המכביה ה-17 ישראל תשס"ה), held in Israel, were an incarnation of the 'Jewish Olympics.' They attracted the largest attendance of any Maccabiah Games, including more than 900 representatives from the Un ...
. On 1 October 2021, Linger died of
pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of t ...
at the age of 46. He was diagnosed with the disease earlier in the year.


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* 1974 births 2021 deaths Footballers from Stepney English footballers Association football midfielders Charlton Athletic F.C. players Leyton Orient F.C. players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Welling United F.C. players Billericay Town F.C. players Braintree Town F.C. players Thurrock F.C. players East Thurrock United F.C. players Wingate & Finchley F.C. players Chelmsford City F.C. players Redbridge F.C. players Dover Athletic F.C. players London Lions F.C. players English Football League players National League (English football) players Isthmian League players English Jews Jewish men's footballers Maccabiah Games competitors for Great Britain Maccabiah Games footballers Competitors at the 2005 Maccabiah Games Jewish British sportspeople Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from pancreatic cancer {{England-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub