Forward’s signing by Bill Shankly in 1961 proved money well spent and he became a gifted broadcaster after his playing days
Ian St John was a gifted broadcaster. He was the perfect straight man for Jimmy Greaves: he clearly found him hilarious and his chuckle was infectious. It seems almost incredible that Saint and Greavsie ran only between 1985 and 1992; to those of us of a certain age, it seemed eternal, the light-hearted sibling to the more earnest Football Focus. But the oddity of those sportsmen who have successful second careers is that what made them famous in the first place is often obscured.
Say Ian St John today and, for most of the population, the picture that will come to mind is of a clubbable grey-haired man in a sports jacket, but it shouldn’t be forgotten either what a good player he was or how important in the emergence of Liverpool as a superpower of English football.
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