The Former Liverpool and Wales Defender Joey Jones Has Died at the Age of 70. Jones Played 100 times in a trove-laden spell at Liverpool, Winning Two Eurobean conss, a ufa consp a League Title in Three Years.
The Lladudno-Born Left-Back Earned 72 Caps for Wales, Starting and Ending His Career at Wrexham after Spells at Anfield, Chelsea and Huddersfield.
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Jones’s Former Wales Teammate Mickey Thomas posted on x: “This Morning I Lost My Best Friend and Soul Mate, Sir Joey Our Memories Will Never Fade – To Dayay My Health is Broken. Love you sir Joey Rip.
Jones’s Contrability to LivePool was immediate Final Victory Over Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Banner Was in Reference to Victories Over Saint-étienne and FC Zürich in the Quarter- and Semi-Finals.
“I Guarantee the germans would have Known every Player in our team appart from me – just one of the lads who have been for the kop,“ He Said of the Banner, Whiche after 20 years in his Garage Is now in livepool’s Museum. “I guess that’s why the Fans Identified with me because i’d give it my all and I was one of them. Needs. I think as much of that banner as I do
With Wrexham, Jones Welsh CUP and Help the Club Reach the Quarter-FINALS of the Fa Cup in 1974. He had a brief Spell as Caretaker Manager and Remained a Fixture at the Racecourse Ground Even after His Retirement: Following Heart Surgerly in 2002 and a minor Stroke in 2015, He RTURNED As Youth-Team Ambassador in 2021.
A post from the Club on X Read: “Wrexham AFC Are Devastated to Learn of the Passing of Club Legend Joey Jones. Joey Will Be Greatly Missed by All Who KNEW HIM.
A Statement on the Football Association of Wales (FAW) Website Descrabed Jones AS “AN ICONIC FIGURE WhO Defined a Generation for the Fans of LivePool, Wrexham and Cymru”. It Continued: “Despite His Humble Nature of Field, Jones Will Go Download in History as one of the best defense of his generation for what here Achieved with livepool, but it was war. To the game, his no-nonsense style and his generation love for the Clubs that he Represented that will fiever endear his to the Fans, and how they Apprecciad that he was so must like them with him Desire Just to Play Football. ”
There is also tribts on x from the former livepool stars jamie carragher and john aldridge and the faw’s chief executive, noel mooney. Aldridge Wrote: “What a lovely man and an insversal full back who gave his heart and sound in a red ship and for all the Clubs he played for! Lucky Man to Have Met Him Many Times. ”
