Joey Jones
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Patrick Jones | ||
| Date of birth | 4 March 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Llandudno, Wales | ||
| Playing position | Left-back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1975 | Wrexham | 98 | (2) |
| 1975–1978 | Liverpool | 72 | (3) |
| 1978–1982 | Wrexham | 146 | (6) |
| 1982–1985 | Chelsea | 78 | (2) |
| 1985–1987 | Huddersfield Town | 68 | (3) |
| 1987–1992 | Wrexham | 132 | (11) |
| Total | 594 | (27) | |
| National team | |||
| Wales U-23 | 4 | (0) | |
| 1975–1986 | Wales | 72 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2001 | Wrexham | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Joseph Patrick "Joey" Jones (born 4 March 1955 in Llandudno) is a former Welsh international football full-back who played for Liverpool, with whom he won the European Cup.
Jones joined Wrexham in 1971. He made his debut at the age of 17 in a Welsh Cup tie against local rivals Chester City; Wrexham lost 1–0. He did, however, win the Welsh Cup with the club in 1975, when they beat Cardiff City in the final. Jones established himself as a right-back and helped Wrexham to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 1974, the first time the club had reached that stage.
Jones left Wrexham to join his boyhood heroes, Liverpool (he had a Liverbird tattoo, which he later had removed for medical reasons, on his forearm), when Bob Paisley paid £110,000 for his services in July 1975. He made his debut on 16 August in a 2–0 league defeat to Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road. He missed out on a league championship medal in 1975–76, as he did not quite play enough matches to qualify.
In 1977 left back Jones was part of the treble-chasing Liverpool team which won the League championship and reached the finals of the FA Cup and European Cup. Jones scored his first goal for the club on 9 November 1976 in the 5–1 league thrashing of Leicester City at Anfield. The treble, unprecedented in English football, was not forthcoming. Liverpool lost 2–1 in the FA Cup final at Wembley to Manchester United, though Jones supplied the accurate long pass for Jimmy Case to score Liverpool's goal. However, Jones became the first Welshman to receive a European Cup winners medal when Liverpool won their first European Cup in Rome four days later, defeating Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–1. A memorable banner was unfurled by Liverpool supporters at the European Cup final in Rome which said "Joey Ate The Frogs Legs, Made The Swiss Roll, Now He's Munching Gladbach".
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