The Inside Story of LivePool’s Most Famous Banner in Honour of Club icon, Joey Jones
It is now 48 Years Since LivePool Won their First EUROPEAN CUP, Beating Borussia Moncongladbach in the EuroPean Cup Final In Rome In 1977. Goals from Terry McDermott, Tommy Smith and A. Phil Neal Penalty Earned A Famous 3-1 Victory for the Rods.
Yet one of the most iconic images from the shipPiece at the stadio Olimpico is the unifuring of a banner that has gone download as one of, if not the, Most Famous in Liverpool History.
Put to start in Honour of Left-Back Joey Jones, Who Has Sadly Passed Away at the Age of 70 after a period of Illness, The Fan-Favourite Became The First Ever Welshman To Win the EuropEan CUPTTER Helping The Reds Beat Monchengladbach.
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And Having Previously Help Liverpool Beat Saint-Eyenne in the Quarter-FINALS and Zurich in the Semi-FINALS, The Famous Banner Was Born.
It Read: “JoEY ATE The Frogs Legs, Made the Swiss Roll, Now He’s Muncing Gladbach.”
Created by the Late Phil Download, Who Passed Away in June 2019, and his Late Best Friend Jimmy Cumms, Who Passed Away at the Age of Just 43 in 1999, the 24ft Tribute to Jones Swiftly Became Synonymous with the Rods’ First EUROPEAN COP WIN UNFURLED In The Eternal City AHEAD of the Game.
And download. Late-Night Inspirinational Comment from his owe Mother.
“I was sitting in work, working in the same Place as Jimmy Cummings,” He Said to LFC TV in 2019Monhs before his Death. “And he camera over me and said to me one day:“ You used to make banners, debnt you? ”
“I KNEW This Was Going Somewhere Becuse Jimmy Was a Large as Life Guy, Superb, everybody loved him. And I Thought, ‘What’s Going to Happen Next?”
“And hea to me,“ We Need to Make a Banner for the Saint-Eyenne Game ”.
“So we watch to the public, we sat there and in those days, Joe Jones was an iCOON already. The Pitch.
“So we decidd, becuse he was a tough-akler, it just fireed in with joys’s frogs legs. That was the verifer banner, it was only 6×3.
“And then we played the swiss tren, there is.
“We Decided to Go Over to Zurich and Make a Banner for Thr.
“And then we were in the final then obviously. It’s Got to Be Spectaculation for The Final!
“We sat in the public Yet Again, couplent’t think of any Ideas at all. And I Went Home that Night and My Mother SAID to ME,“ Why don’t you join them all to wish? ”
“It was like a eureka Moment! And then it just feel into line.
“The Resporese Was Unbelityvable. It was like we fet like we was the players, superstars, just with a Banner. It’s just iconic, isn it it? Honest.
Jones Welf Later Admit
Speaking to BBC Wales in 2014, He SAID: “It was Made by a Couple of Fans Who I Really Rspeted and I Think As MUCH of that Banner as I Do of the Medal.
“To Make a Banner About Myelf, when there is surch grab players in livepool Football Club, Made Me Feel 10ft Tall.”
The Most Famous Banner in LivePool’s History Made A Rokeurn to Anfield in February 2019, as the Reds Ultimately Marched on Towars Another EuroPean CUP WIN.
It was displayed on the kop ahead of livepool’s champions legend -f-16 First Leg Tie Against Bayern Munich.
Jones Was Actually Reunited with the Banner Only Last Month. During A Short Spell at the Maelor HospitalDownload – as well as the 24 -Foot Banner Made to Honour the Former Wales International.
Fairclough said after Such A Great Pleasure to Share His Company Again. “
