Source: Liverpool_Echo
Former Everton FC defender Tommy Jones dies aged 80
FORMER Everton defender Tommy 'TE' Jones has died aged after 80 after a long illness.[LNB]Jones made 411 appearances for the Blues between 1950 and 1961, being part of the last Everton team to be relegated in 1951 and helping them gain promotion back to the top flight three years later.[LNB]A dependable defender, Jones followed in the footsteps of the legendary Thomas G. (TG) Jones who had been one of the club's star defenders in the 1930s and 1940s.[LNB]A knee injury forced 'TE' to retire from the game at the game at the age of 31 in 1961 but he was highly regarded enough within the club for then-chairman John Moores to help him find future employment beyond the game of football.[LNB] "I had a bad knee injury a year or so before I finished," he recalled.[LNB]"John Moores was chairman of the club at the time and he said: 'If at any time in the future you do finish the game and you're looking for some kind of employment, I'd like you to contact me.'[LNB]"I was reminded of this about a year after by a physiotherapist at the club at the time and I said: 'Yes, these directors at the club mean these things at the time but when it comes to the crunch it can be a form of embarrassment.'
