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Goodness. After failing to hold down a regular place in midfield, he formed a most unlikely effective central defensive partnership with Terry Lees.

As I remember at this time (mid 70’s) there was talk of a move to Spurs which never materialised and he ended up signing for Leicester.

John was one of those rare footballing commodities  - well educated and a gentleman. 

Very sad news indeed. 

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Good grief, he was an excellent player for the Vale. Always remember his goal vs Arnold in an FA Cup replay in the late 70's at Vale Park, Vale were losing either 2-1 or drawing 2-2 and from near the touchline on the Railway Stand side he curled in a beauty with his right foot at the Bycars end, it changed the whole game and Vale went onto win 5-2. It was important 'cause Vale were being given the run around at VP by a lower non league team who we could only manage a draw  with the previous Saturday.

I think Vale received a sizable fee when he moved on.

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10 hours ago, TheSage said:

Oh, no.

It is very sad news but I don't think he'd been well for some time.

I used to see him in my local sometimes.

A tall, elegant player was John. He gave the Vale great service.

I had the occasional pint with John in The Bird in Trent Vegas.He liked a flutter aswell.Lovely gentleman,Been ill for quite a long time.RIP John.

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He was my Maths teacher at school. Wonderful teacher and he would sometimes join in with our football games in PE. He got Robbie Earle to come into the school to give a talk to the kids one time also. I have nothing but great memories if him. Top bloke, it’s made me feel very sad to read this news. 😢

 

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He can't have been that old. Great player for us and always looked composed. Possibly a better player second time around as he sometimes had an error in him when he first played for Vale.

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