Ian St John
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Ian St John (7 June 1938 – 1 March 2021) was a Scottish footballer. He played as a centre-forward. He is best known as a Liverpool player from 1961 to 1971. He won two First Division league titles and an FA Cup (scoring the 117th minute winning goal in the 1965 final) with Liverpool.[1] He played for Scotland 21 times. He later became a manager and pundit. He was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. In 2008, he was added to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.
In June 2014, he announced that he had surgery for bladder cancer in April of that year. The surgery removed his bladder and prostate gland.[2]
St John died on 1 March 2021 after a long-illness in Arrowe Park, Merseyside at the age of 82.[3]
Honours
- Liverpool
- Football League First Division (2): 1963–64, 1965–66
- Football League Second Division (1): 1961–62
- FA Cup (1): 1964–65
- FA Charity Shield (3): 1964, 1965, 1966
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Liverpool team, including Ian St John, before their 1966–67 European Cup first-round, second-leg match.
References
- ↑ "FA Cup Final 1965". Football Association. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Liverpool FC legend Ian St John recovering from cancer operation". BBC. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ↑ "Ian St John: Former Liverpool & Scotland forward dies at age 82". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
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