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GLENN ROEDER (FOOTBALLER = PLAYER / MANAGER)
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Full name Glenn Victor Roeder
Date of birth 13 December 1955 - - - Place of birth Woodford, England
Date of death 28 February 2021 (aged 65)
Footballer: Position(s) Defender
Glenn Roeder - Wikipedia

 

Youth career
1970–1973 Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1978 Leyton Orient 115 (4)
1978–1983 Queens Park Rangers 157 (17)
1983 → Notts County (loan) 4 (0)
1983–1989 Newcastle United 193 (8)
1989–1992 Watford 78 (2)
1992 Leyton Orient 8 (0)
1992–1993 Gillingham 6 (0)
Total 561 (31)

 

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Teams managed
1992–1993 Gillingham (Player-manager)
1993–1996 Watford
2001–2003 West Ham United
2006–2007 Newcastle United
2007–2009 Norwich City
2016–2018 Stevenage (Managerial Advisor)

 

IAN ST. JOHN: (FOOTBALLER - LIVERPOOL)
= 1966
Birth name: John St John[
Date of birth 7th June 1938 - Place of birth Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Date of death 1 March 2021 (aged 82)
Position(s) Forward
Ian St John - Wikipedia

 

Senior career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956–1961 Motherwell 113 (80)
1956–1957 → Douglas Water Thistle (loan)
1961–1971 Liverpool 336 (95)

(Scoring Winning Goal in the 1965 F.A. Cup Final)
1971 Hellenic 23 (4)
1971–1972 Coventry City 18 (3)
1972 Cape Town City
1972–1973 Tranmere Rovers 9 (1)
National team
1959–1965 Scotland 21 (9)

 

in 1979, St John became a football pundit. He struck up a successful TV partnership with fellow ex-footballer Jimmy Greaves
Their Saint and Greavsie programme ran from 1985 until 1992.

 

TREVOR PEACOCK: ACTOR

Born: Trevor Peacock - 19th May 1931 Edmonton, London, England
Died 8th March 2021 (aged 89)
Trevor Peacock

 

Peacock was also a songwriter.
He wrote the 1960s pop classics:-

• "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", which was recorded by Herman's Hermits
• "Mystery Girl" (recorded by Jess Conrad)
• "Made You" (Adam Faith)
• "Gossip Calypso" (Bernard Cribbins)
• "Stick Around" (Billy Fury)
• "That's What Love Will Do" and "Nature's Time For Love" (both recorded by Joe Brown).
• and wrote the lyrics for a number of hits by The Vernons Girls.

 

Though it is his part in as 'Jim Trott' in TV's ''The Vicar of Dibley' that he will be most, and fondly remembered for ...

 

MURRAY WALKER ( OBE ) (Formula One Commentator)

Born: Graeme Murray Walker - 10th October 1923 - Hall Green, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Died 13th March 2021 (aged 97)
Murray Walker

 

MURRAYISMS:

 

Media:
Former F1 commentator Walker dies at 97
Murray Walker, the voice of Formula One, dies aged 97

 

Peter Lorimer (Leeds United and Scotland Footballer)

Peter Lorimer - Wikipedia

 

Personal information:
Full name Peter Patrick Lorimer
Date of birth 14 December 1946
Place of birth Dundee, Scotland
Date of death 20 March 2021 (aged 74)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1979 Leeds United 450 (151)
1971 → Cape Town City (loan) 6 (8)
1979 Toronto Blizzard 29 (9)
1979–1980 York City 29 (8)
1980 Toronto Blizzard 18 (2)
1981–1983 Vancouver Whitecaps 80 (22)
1983 → UCD (loan) 3 (0)
1983–1985 Leeds United 76 (17)
1985–1986 Whitby Town
1986 Hapoel Haifa
Total 691 (217)
National team
1963 Scotland Amateur 7 (7)
1969–1976 Scotland 21 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

 

SKY:
Peter Lorimer: Leeds United's all-time leading goalscorer dies aged 74 following long-term illness | Football News | Sky Sports

BBC:
Peter Lorimer obituary: An 'explosive and influential member of the greatest Leeds side in history' - BBC Sport

 

FRANK WORTHINGTON: Footballer):

Full name Frank Stewart Worthington[1]
Date of birth 23rd November 1948 - Halifax, England
Date of death 22nd March 2021 (aged 72)
Frank Worthington - Wikipedia

 

Much travelled
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1972 Huddersfield Town 171 (41)
1972–1977 Leicester City 210 (72)
1977–1979 Bolton Wanderers 84 (35)
1979 → Philadelphia Fury (loan) 21 (10)
1979–1982 Birmingham City 75 (29)
1980 → Mjällby AIF (loan) 12 (4)
1981 → Tampa Bay Rowdies (loan) 26 (11)
1982 Leeds United 32 (14)
1982–1983 Sunderland 19 (2)
1983–1984 Southampton 34 (4)
1984–1985 Brighton & Hove Albion 31 (7)
1985–1987 Tranmere Rovers 59 (21)
1987 Preston North End 23 (3)
1987–1988 Stockport County 19 (6)
1988 Cape Town Spurs
1988 Chorley 3 (0)
1988–1989 Stalybridge Celtic
1989 Galway United 2 (0)
1989 Weymouth 4 (1)
1989–1990 Radcliffe Borough
1990 Guiseley 2 (0)
1990–1991 Hinckley Town
1991 Cemaes Bay 1 (0)
1991–1992 Halifax Town (player-coach) 0 (0)
Total 828 (260)
National team
1974 England 8 (2)
Teams managed
1985–1987 Tranmere Rovers
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

 

And Cavalier - Entertainer

 

SKY:
Frank Worthington dies aged 72: Tributes paid to former Huddersfield, Leicester and England striker
BBC:
Ex-England striker Worthington dies at 72