Ian St John: Former Liverpool & Scotland forward dies at age 82

[sunburywhite]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56250355

[Andy S]

Condolences to your family and friends Saint

[Dodgin]

Always enjoyed that double act with Jimmy Greaves, I remember seeing him getting sent off giving Pancho Prason a thump at the Cottage. RIP

[Abbotsbury White]

sad news, RIP St, another of my boyhood stars gone, used to love St and Greavsie show.

[ALG01]

RIP
One of the unbderated players. If he was around today he would have been earning mega bucks

However, saint and greavsie was an unexpected brilliant second part to his career. A very unlikely knockabout double act.

[jarv]

Met him once. Scotland v England in Glasgow. In a hotel the night before the game, I was with 2 mates and at breakfast he sat at the next table (obviously going to the game too). Chatted for a bit, he was incredibly friendly and humerous.  Nice man. RIP Saint.

[filham]

A football icon in Liverpool and a national treasure on TV with Greavsie.
Remember that lovely story of the placard outside a Liverpool church which read "What will we do when the Lord comes".
Some Liverpool fan had written underneath "move St.John to inside left".

[Fernhurst]

Us senior Fulham fans seem to be losing players we grew up watching at an ever increasing rate.
RIP Ian, condolences to your family and friends.

[Cambridge Pete]

RIP Saint. Condolences to family. Wasn't he the first player to use TV evidence to reduce a ban for being sent off?  Keetch pulled his hair to stop him so he punched Keetch. It was on "The Big Match"  Not sure it's true but someone once told me they later had a good laugh and a beer or three.

[Steeeeeeeeeed]

It was a brilliant football show

https://youtu.be/kBeiuFfe1q8

😅😅

[ron]

RIP Saint. Condolences to family. Wasn't he the first player to use TV evidence to reduce a ban for being sent off?  Keetch pulled his hair to stop him so he punched Keetch. It was on "The Big Match"  Not sure it's true but someone once told me they later had a good laugh and a beer or three.

No, it was Mark "pancho" Pearson who was chinned. Anyone who punched Keetch would not survive the next meeting with him!

[jarv]

Yes it was Pearson. I was standing at the front and close to the action. Alan Minter would have been proud of the punch. :005:

[sunburywhite]

https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2016/08/liverpool-red-mist-10-times-players-lost-their-heads/

[ron]

Yes it was Pearson. I was standing at the front and close to the action. Alan Minter would have been proud of the punch. :005:

Me too Jarv. I was halfway up the Riverside terrace, just on the Hammersmith side of the halfway line.