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      RIP The Saint

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      Re: RIP The Saint
      Reply #46: Mar 03, 2021 10:45:19 am
      Loved the saint, old connection between my wee club motherwell and LFC.

      What a player and what a man, sad times. :-(
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      Re: RIP The Saint
      Reply #47: Mar 03, 2021 04:14:44 pm
      https://youtu.be/OeUNBr6WvYw

      As Shankly said 'he liked a scrap, he did like a scrap'.
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      Re: RIP The Saint
      Reply #48: Mar 03, 2021 07:35:40 pm
      Like most of us here, I was not around when he played for us, but he got over 100 club goals, an achievement that generally doesn't get the credit it deserves compared to what other forwards have scored for us over the years.

      I was around for the last year of his TV show. He carried the whole show really, and always kept it together when Greaves interrupted him mid sentence, which was often.

      But he was an emotional character, and he struggled to fight back the tears as a pundit on Sky, when the team and club disintegrated before his eyes during Rafa's last season. The fans let everyone there know that it was 50 years since Shanks first game in charge. Just as that day though, we lost the game.

      More recently, he was co commentator on our station for the home game v Wolves two seasons ago. With his faltering and barely audible voice, clearly he wasn't in great health at the time, but he was brave enough to do it, when more regular pundits in better health should have, and for whatever reason didn't bother. But there's only one word to describe him really. Legend.
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      Re: RIP The Saint
      Reply #49: Mar 04, 2021 08:36:40 am
      Scouser is touring America on holiday and stops in a remote bar in the hills of Nevada. He's chatting to the barman when he spies an old Native American sitting in a corner.
      "Who's he?" asks the Scouser.
      "That's the Memory Man," says the barman.
      "He knows everything. He can remember any fact. Go and try him out."
      So the Scouser wanders over and asks: "Who won the 1965 FA Cup Final?"
      "Liverpool," replies the Memory Man.
      The tourist is amazed.
      "Who did they beat?"
      "Leeds," comes the reply.
      "And the score?"
      "2-1."
      Scouser tries something more specific.
      "Who scored the winning goal?"
      Native American does not even blink:
      "Ian St John."
      The Liverpudlian returns home and regales his relatives and friends with his tale, and he's determined to return and pay his respects to this amazing man.
      Ten years later he has saved enough money and returns to America. After weeks of searching through the towns of Nevada, Scouser finds the Memory Man in a cave in the mountains.
      The Scouser steps forward, bows and greets the Native American in what he imagines from old films to be his traditional native tongue:
      "How."
      The Memory Man squints at him and says:
      "Diving header in the six-yard box."

      RIP Ian, they knew you everywhere 🌹
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      Re: RIP The Saint
      Reply #50: Mar 04, 2021 07:01:10 pm
      Top player, top bloke.
      And used to love Saint and Greavsie back in the day.
      RIP Saint.
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      Re: RIP The Saint
      Reply #51: Mar 05, 2021 12:09:05 am
      I had the pleasure of speaking to the Saint at a soccer school in St Helens in the late 80s, very complimentary and encouraging, fancy Ian St John taking the time out to speak to ME.. Condolences to his family, RIP Saint

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