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View image in fullscreenJoey Jones, former Liverpool, Wrexham and Wales defender, dies aged 70

Jones played 100 times in trophy-laden spell at Anfield, winning two European Cups, a Uefa Cup and a league title

The former Liverpool and Wales defender Joey Jones has died at the age of 70.

Jones played 100 times in a trophy-laden spell at Liverpool, winning two European Cups, a Uefa Cup and a league title in three years.

The Llandudno-born left-back earned 72 caps for Wales, starting and ending his career at Wrexham after spells at Anfield, Chelsea and Huddersfield.

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Jones’s former Wales teammate Mickey Thomas posted on X: “This morning I lost my best friend and soul mate, Sir Joey our memories will never fade – Today my heart is broken.

My condolences are with Janice and all the family.”

Jones’s contribution to Liverpool was immortalised in the “Joey ate the frogs legs, made the Swiss roll, now he’s munching Gladbach” banner revealed by fans at the 1977 European Cup final victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach.

I think as much of that banner as I do the winners’ medal.”

With Wrexham, Jones won the Welsh Cup and helped the club reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 1974.

He had a brief spell as caretaker manager and remained a fixture at the Racecourse Ground even after his retirement, following heart surgery in 2002 and a minor stroke in 2015, he returned as youth team ambassador in 2021.

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A post from the club on X read: “Wrexham AFC are devastated to learn of the passing of Club legend Joey Jones.

A true Club legend, on and off the pitch, with time for everybody he met, Joey will be greatly missed by all who knew him.”

There were also tributes on X from former Liverpool stars Jamie Carragher and John Aldridge and the Football Association of Wales chief executive Noel Mooney.
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