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Obituary: Ian St John - Influential Player Who Illuminated Our Screens

It was the name that got to me. It sounded like one word when my older friend and I traded our ‘swappers’ from the big 1969/90 sticker album with George Best (who else?) on the cover - ‘Sinjon’.

What a weird name, but one that rolled off the tongue and made you want to repeat it, listening to how it sounded. Then the discovery. It was actually ‘St John’, coming as it did in two parts. I had to say it quickly to realize it was the same person we were talking about.