Ian St. John is advised by many, to be one of the best important signings anytime fabricated by Liverpool Football Club, at a time aback they were admiring in the Second Division, Ian St. John became a key amateur in a Liverpool aggregation that rose from football mediocrity to become champions of the English league, and began an era of ascendancy both in England and Europe, that would aftermost for the best allotment of thirty years.
Born in Scotland in 1938, he began his football career at Motherwell in 1956, the aggregation he had accurate as a child. St. John anon accustomed himself in the aboriginal aggregation and he is accustomed with one of the fastest anytime hat-tricks, a time of two account and thirty seconds, while arena for Motherwell adjoin Hibernian in 1959.
St. John's adeptness didn't go disregarded and in 1961 he active for Liverpool for a again club almanac fee of 37,500, which was money able-bodied spent according to administrator Bill Shankly, and he was right, he denticulate a hat-trick adjoin Merseyside rivals Everton in his aboriginal bold for Liverpool, and although Liverpool absolutely absent that game, he had signalled his intent.
Ian St. John bound became a admirers favourite, and although alone abbreviate in adeptness (five anxiety and seven inches tall) he was a actual big attendance on the pitch. As able-bodied as his ambition scoring, he was acclaimed for his abundant brawl control, casual and admitting his height, he additionally had a abundant adeptness for branch the ball.
During the 1961-62 analysis Liverpool won the Second analysis appellation and with that advance aback to the aboriginal Division, scoring 22 goals during the season; a ambition account he would echo as Liverpool won the aboriginal analysis appellation in the 1963-64 season.
Ian St. John will be remembered for scoring one of Liverpool's best important anytime goals, the extra-time acceptable ambition adjoin Leeds United in the FA Cup Final of 1965, a ambition which denticulate with a attack to accord Liverpool a 2-1 victory, and anchored the aboriginal cup for Liverpool in seventy-three years.
As time anesthetized his goals for Liverpool became less, as did his appearances, and he assuredly active for Coventry in 1971 afterwards authoritative 425 appearances and scoring 118 goals for Liverpool.
'The Saint' will apparently abide one of Liverpool's best cogent anytime signings and a accurate Liverpool legend.
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