two cities. I was just a bit too young to have watched Ian banging in the goals for Motherwell but the legend of the man was something you quickly became aware of as a child, whether you were into football or not.
I went to the same school, Calder Primary, and everyone who went there knew all about Ian St John and the fact we were walking in his footsteps.
Everybody knew somebody who knew his family and, by the time I was at school, Liverpool had grown to become perhaps the biggest team in Europe and Ian had been credited by Bill Shankly as being perhaps the key player in starting the big climb at Liverpool to the world stage.I was essentially born a Motherwell fanatic and that meant any highlights in recent history were soon drilled into.
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