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Mervyn Cawston was a popular goalkeeper who represented Southend across several spells in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Goalkeeper · 1974–1984
Mervyn Cawston was a popular goalkeeper who represented Southend across several spells in the 1970s and 1980s.
These career totals are being corrected. The older archive entry for Mervyn Cawston contains a known discrepancy and must not be used as a definitive figure. Its data is safely retained for reconciliation.
This is the archived career snapshot, not an automatically combined lifetime total. Some earlier seasons and cup records are incomplete; current-season matches are shown separately until each historical season has been reconciled. No unverified figures are presented as definitive club records.
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