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Ian St John RIP

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  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    RIP

  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Oh, that is really sad to hear.
    Always came across as a great fella with a sense of humour to match.
    One of my favourite football personalities of all time.

    RIP.......Ian.....RIP
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    edited March 2021
    So, sometime pre-95 by my recollection I was invited out on an evening all expenses covered jolly over in deepest, darkest Essex for an evening of iistening to well known sports stars, one of whom was ISJ. There was about 5 of them lined up from various sports and, as is the way of such events, the stories were great and getting a lot of laughs. Unfortunately, ISJ was number 5 on the agenda. By this time the whole room was well-oiled, laughing and having a great time looking forward to each speaker in turn with great expectations of more to come. However, I suspect he too may have been enjoying the evening as much as we all were, if not more so, because when he got to the microphone, what came out wasn’t that version of his voice that we were all so familiar with from his Saint and Greavsie days. What we heard was something that sounded like a rather thick, well-oiled Scottish accent that nobody in the room, certainly at least near where I was sitting, could understand a word of.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    RIP
  • bristoladdick
    bristoladdick Posts: 1,147
    RIP. Loved Saint and Greavsie when I was young. 

  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    RIP Ian
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    RIP. A very fine player and then fondly remembered from Saint & Greavsie.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    RIP.
    Saint featured in the first "proper" football match I attended that didn't involve Charlton: the 1965 Liverpool v Leeds cup final.  He scored in extra time to give Liverpool their first FA Cup win. A top player.
  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,333
    RIP. The Saint and Greavsie part of my childhood. 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Sad news. RIP The Saint. 
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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    RIP.  A sweat i actually liked.
  • CostaFortune
    CostaFortune Posts: 402
    cafcfan said:
    RIP.
    Saint featured in the first "proper" football match I attended that didn't involve Charlton: the 1965 Liverpool v Leeds cup final.  He scored in extra time to give Liverpool their first FA Cup win. A top player.
    Dave the Scouser is touring the USA. Along the way, he stops off at a remote bar in the Nevada desert and chats to the bartender when he spots a Red Indian in full tribal dress seated in the corner of the bar.

    "Blimey!" remarks Dave. "Who's he?"

    "Gee, that's the memory man," replies the bartender. "He knows everything there is to know. Got a memory like an elephant, he can remember any fact. Heck, go and try him out!"

    Dave heads over to the Red Indian, thinking that he can outsmart him with a question about English football.

    He asks the memory man, "Who won the 1965 FA cup final?"

    "Liverpool," came the instantaneous reply.

    Dave was stunned. He tried again asking, "Who did they beat?"

    "Leeds," replied the memory man.

    Dave tried once more asking, "What was the final score?"

    The wise Red Indian didn't hesitate in answering, "2-1."

    Dave thinks he'll get smart, asking the memory man for the name of the winning goal scorer. Without so much as blinking, the Red Indian says, "Ian St John."

    Dave is stunned and returns home to Liverpool, where he tells everyone about the Red Indian. Dave's curiosity lingers, and he vows to return to America and pay his respects to the Indian. Ten years later, Dave finally saved up enough money to return and, after weeks of searching the Nevada desert, once more he finds the Red Indian, now in a cave.

    Humbled by the Red Indian, Dave steps forward, bows, and greets the brave in his traditional tongue.

    "How," Dave says.

    The memory man squints at him and replies, "A diving header in the six-yard box."
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    RIP

    Another person who remembers him for the brilliant Saint and Greavsie and his other TV work, rather than his playing days
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,521
    edited March 2021
    Got a trip to watch the recording of Saint & Greavsie as a wedding present from a good mate who was working for ITV at the time. Great fun though must admit the passage of time has faded the detailed memory of it somewhat!! 

    RIP ISJ.
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,076
    RIP Saint.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Really sad at this news. As a player Ian St John was before my time but absolutely loved watching him alongside Greavsie as a young un. In fact the only time I’ve been on TV was on their show. Torquay were playing at Scarborough on a Friday night and for some reason me and a mate went and decided to go in the away end with about thirty diehard Torquay fans who travelled up. The game was settled by a penalty to the Gulls in front of us and the highlight(s) was shown on Saint and Greavsie the following afternoon. My mate and me were on screen for about twelve seconds.

    RIP Ian.
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302

  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,784
    Very sad. RIP 
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    Sad. Great player and broadcaster.

    RIP
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    RIP....as others have said, Saint and Greavsie were hilarious.
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Chippycafc said:
    RIP....as others have said, Saint and Greavsie were hilarious.
    Ditto.  I’m just old enough to remember it.  Remember Skinner & Baddiel used to do a good spoof of it on fantasy football.  They seemed like they had a great laugh filming it and you just can’t imagine something like it ever being done with today’s generation of footballers in years to come.

    Footballing wise, way before my time, but I know he was a top player 

    RIP

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