by “Joey ate the frogs, made Swiss roles, now he is giving Gladbach.”
The 24-foot width Banner, which was known as Scouse Bayeux Tapestry, illustrates the respect of the former defender of Liverpool, Joey Jones, who died at the age of 70, was held by fans.
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Jones, before the 1977 European victory against the German opposition from 1977 in Roms Stadio, said the message that moved into the victory over St. Etienne and Zurich made him feel 10 feet.
Not that he needed the additional motivation, since the fierce commitment of the fiery Welsh was never questioned.
However, it brought him into difficulties on occasion. He was accused of having excited a turmoil when he was back to the bench in 1976 after Liverpool’s semi-final against Barcelona on the way to the UEFA Cup victory in 1976, while he was arrested twice in 1976 when he was arrested for Chelsea.
But it was this attitude that made him popular with Reds fans in his 100 games in his three years in the club.
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“I guarantee that the Germans have known every player in our team – just one of the boys who came from the Kop,” he said of the banner, which is now in Liverpools Museum in his garage after 20 years.
“I think that is why the fans identified with me because I would give everything and I was one of them.
“I never considered myself clever, but I was the guy I think a team needs it.
“I think as much of this banner as I do the winning medal.”
Jones’ mother came from the city of the city, his grandmother was a scowerer on the father’s side and he was on the Kop to watch his heroes.
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He never really had the feeling that he belonged to Ray Clemence, Kevin Keegan and Ian Callaghan to the sublime society of a dressing room in Liverpool.
He grew up in a council in North Wales and was taught by nuns in a Catholic school, for the Landudno Swifts, a club that has now no longer been placed, who also made the careers of Wales International Neville Southall and Eddie Niedzowi and with the local gang parrots gang.
Jones spent “a few weekends” in the local cells and was lucky enough not to have been sent to a young criminal institution – but even the signing for his first professional club did not stop the unruly behavior.
“I would play in the first team in Wrexham who came back with black eyes and everything on Mondays,” he recalled.
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Jones, who expected when he left school, never felt that his talent would take him a higher one than the Division Drei Club at that time. When Liverpool came, Liverpool called after a swap deal against Sheffield United was able to go through with Len Badger and £ 100,000. In 1975 he couldn’t believe his luck.
He missed a league championship medal in his first season after not doing enough appearances, but was the greatest year of his career.
Joey Jones played more than 70 games for Wales (PA Archive)
Jones was an essential part of another title that lost a FA Cup final against Manchester United before he was the first Welsh to win the European trophy with Wales, for which he won 72 hats between 1975 and 1986 and defeated England in Wembley for a good measure.
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A second European Cup followed a year later, but Jones was on the bench, an ever more frequent feature this season and against his better judgment – and not because he accidentally performed manager Bob Paisley in the dugout – he started again in summer.
Magic at Chelsea – with which he won the title of Division two in 1984 despite a daily London commuting from Wales – and Huddersfield preceded a final return to Wrexham, where he switched to the coaching team.
He had a short magic as a caretaker manager and remained an integral part of the race track even after his retirement after heart surgery in 2002 and a small stroke in 2015. He returned as an ambassador for the youth team in 2021.
