See also John Aldridge (Royal Academician)

John William Aldridge (born Liverpool, 18 September 1958). Aldridge is a former Republic of Ireland international striker. He was a prolific, record-breaking footballer (goalscorer), best known for his hugely productive time with Liverpool in the late 1980s and for being the first man to have a penalty kick saved in an FA Cup Final. John Arthur Malcom Aldridge (1905 - 1983), a self-taught English artist elected a Royal Academician in 1963. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Liverpool Football Club are a football club based in Liverpool, in the north west of England. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Bonaventure Kalou of the Ivory Coast takes a penalty against Dragoslav Jevrić of S&M during the 2006 World Cup. ... The FA Cup Final is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup, the oldest football tournament in the world. ...

Early career

Aldridge took a long time to reach the top of the game, playing his early trade in non-league football on Merseyside before getting his break in the professional game with Newport County. Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ... Newport County AFC are a football club with a chequered history. ...

He then joined Oxford United in 1984 when the club were in the pre-1992 Third Division. He broke the club's record of goals in a season in 84/85 as the U's got promoted to the pre-1992 First Division. He also won the League Cup in 1986 with Oxford, beating QPR 3-0 in the final at Wembley. This is Oxford's only ever major trophy. Oxford United F.C. is an English football team currently playing in Football League Two. ... The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Queens Park Rangers Football Club are an English football team, from Loftus Road, Shepherds Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. ... Wembley Stadium is a football stadium located in Wembley, London. ...

Liverpool career

Liverpool were losing their chief striker Ian Rush to Juventus at the end of the season and needed a proven and experienced replacement. Aldridge even bore a physical resemblance to Rush. He signed for Liverpool and cut his teeth with the club as a partner and replacement for Rush as Liverpool ended the year trophyless, including a Wembley defeat to Arsenal in the League Cup final, for which Aldridge was ineligible. Ian James Rush MBE (born 20 October 1961) is a legendary Welsh footballer who played as a striker and is most well-known for playing for Liverpool. ... Juventus Football Club (Latin for Youth, pronounced yoo-VEHN-toos) is one of Italys oldest and most successful football clubs, based in Turin. ... Wembley Stadium is a football stadium located in Wembley, London. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ...

If people wondered whether Aldridge was up to the job of replacing Rush and could cope with the pressure, they soon didn't need to. After Rush left, Aldridge scored 26 goals in what turned out to be a magnificent season for Liverpool, including a strike in each of the first nine games. Liverpool lost just twice in the League championship season and went unbeaten for the first 29 matches. The 1988 title was won with some comfort. From 1889 until 1992, this was the highest division overall of organized football in England. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Aldridge scored both goals in the club's FA Cup semi final against Nottingham Forest, including a memorable volley from an outstanding team move. He also was an efficient penalty taker, but a predictable one too, which led to his season and that of Liverpool ending in heartbreak. Note: for the full results of all FA Cup finals, see FA Cup Final The FA Cup - this is the fourth trophy, in use since 1992, and identical in design to the third trophy introduced in 1911. ... Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English football club, based at the City Ground, which is just outside the official boundary of Nottingham on the south side of the River Trent. ...

Wimbledon goalkeeper Dave Beasant had anticipated that Aldridge would strike any penalty given in the FA Cup final to his left as Aldridge had gone that way with every one of his kicks that season, never failing to score. With Wimbledon 1-0 up at Wembley, midway through the second half, Liverpool were duly awarded a spot kick when Aldridge himself was fouled. Wimbledon F.C. crest Wimbledon F.C. was the name of a now defunct football club that played in south London. ... A football goalkeeper leaves the ground to parry a shot on goal In many team sports, a goalkeeper (termed goaltender, or goalie in some sports) is a designated player that is charged with directly preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the goal. ... David John Beasant, (born March 20, 1959 in Willesden, London) was an English football goalkeeper who began his career in the late 1970s. ... Wembley Stadium is a football stadium located in Wembley, London. ...

Aldridge did, as predicted, place the penalty to Beasant's left and the keeper sprang across to save it. He became the first keeper to save a penalty in the FA Cup final and Aldridge became the first player to miss one in an FA Cup final at Wembley (though not the first to miss in any FA Cup final: Charlie Wallace missed the target with a spot-kick in the 1913 final playing for Aston Villa against Sunderland). Aldridge's failure was also his first penalty miss for Liverpool. He was substituted shortly afterwards and Liverpool lost 1-0.

The following season was tough and eventful for Aldridge. Rush had failed to settle in Italy ("it's like being in a foreign country" was one memorable quote from the Welsh striker during his time at Juventus) and Liverpool had negotiated a cut-price deal to bring him back to Anfield. Motto: (Welsh for Wales forever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) Welsh, English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056  Area    - Total 20,779... Anfield (sometimes known as Anfield Road) is a football stadium in the district of Anfield, in Liverpool, England. ...

This led to natural speculation that Aldridge would be surplus to requirements, but manager Kenny Dalglish disproved this by regularly playing the two together (despite reservations that the two were stylistically too similar to be strike partners) and indeed, it was Aldridge who enjoyed the better form during the season, with Rush struggling to re-acquaint himself in his familiar surroundings. Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE (born 4 March 1951, Dalmarnock, Glasgow) is a former Scottish international football player. ...

In the Charity Shield match against Wimbledon at Wembley, Aldridge started the match and mildly laid his FA Cup ghosts to rest by scoring both goals in a 2-1 win. Gary MacAllister with the Charity Shield after Leeds Uniteds win in 1992 The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is an English association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of the FA Premier League and the winners of the FA Cup. ...

Aldridge maintained his hot scoring streak while Rush often had to content himself with a place on the bench. Then 96 fans were killed at Hillsborough and Aldridge, as a native Liverpudlian and boyhood supporter of the club, was deeply affected by the tragedy. He attended every funeral he could and publicly contemplated giving up the game. The Memorial at Hillsborough. ... Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ...

Ultimately, he returned to the fray and scored two goals in the re-arranged semifinal (once again versus Nottingham Forest) at Old Trafford as Liverpool won 3-1. He courted controversy with the third goal which was an own goal by Forest defender Brian Laws. Aldridge was criticised for ruffling the distraught player's hair and laughing in celebration. Old Trafford (given the nickname The Theatre of Dreams by Sir. ... An own goal occurs in goal-scoring games when a player scores a goal that is registered against his own team. ... Brian Laws (born 14 October 1961 in Wallsend, England) is manager of Sheffield Wednesday football club and a former professional footballer. ...

Aldridge fully redeemed himself for his penalty failure a year earlier by scoring in the final at Wembley against Merseyside rivals Everton with his first touch of the ball. Ironically, it was Rush who ultimately sealed the win when he replaced Aldridge and scored twice in extra time to earn Liverpool a 3-2 victory. Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ... Everton Football Club is located in the city Liverpool in Merseyside, England. ... Extra time is an additional period played at the end of some games of football (soccer) if the score is tied after the two standard periods (halves) of play. ...

The "double" of League championship and FA Cup, achieved by Liverpool in 1986 but denied to them by Wimbledon in 1988, was again possible, with a decider against Arsenal to come at Anfield. Aldridge played in a game which would guarantee Liverpool the title as long as Arsenal didn't win by two clear goals but, 1-0 down in injury time, Liverpool conceded another goal to Michael Thomas and lost the League. Aldridge sank prostrate on to the turf, inconsolable, when the final whistle sounded, and reacted angrily when Arsenal defender and Irish teammate David O'Leary helped him to his feet. The Double is a term in football, meaning to win a countrys top division and its main cup competition in the same season. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ... Anfield (sometimes known as Anfield Road) is a football stadium in the district of Anfield, in Liverpool, England. ... Michael Lauriston Thomas (born August 24, 1967) is an English former footballer. ... David Anthony OLeary is an Irish football manager and former player. ...

Real Sociedad Career

The following season Rush was fully settled back into the Anfield groove and Liverpool accepted an offer from basque side Real Sociedad for Aldridge. Before he left, he was given a special run-out as a substitute during the club's record-shattering 9-0 win over Crystal Palace in order to score a penalty in front of the Kop. He threw his shirt and boots into the crowd at the end and signed for the Spaniards the next day. Aldridge became the first non-Basque player ever signed by Sociedad. Capital Vitoria-Gasteiz Official language(s) Spanish and Basque Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 14th  7,234 km²  1. ... Real Sociedad is a Spanish football club from the Basque city of San Sebastián/Donostia in Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa. ... Crystal Palace Football Club is a professional football team based in Croydon in Surrey and playing in the Coca-Cola Football League Championship, the second level of English football. ... Kop or Spion Kop is the name for a number of stands at football stadiums in England and abroad, named after the South African mountain Spion Kop, scene of a battle in the Second Boer War where a majority of the Liverpool Regiment had died, hence Liverpool FC calling the... This article is about the Basque people. ...

Tranmere Rovers Career

A return to Merseyside in 1991 with Tranmere Rovers was Aldridge's next step, and he scored a club record 40 goals in his first season there. He maintained his international place as Ireland qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA and became involved in one of the country's most notorious spats. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tranmere Rovers Football Club is an English football club, based at Prenton Park, Prenton, Birkenhead, Merseyside. ... Qualifying countries The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 16th staging of the World Cup, was held in the United States from June 17 to July 17. ...

In 1996, Aldridge became player-manager of Tranmere, finally giving up playing and concentrating on the management side two years later. In 889 career appearances, he scored a record 476 goals, a tally not matched by any goalscorer in post-war English football to this day. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Though Tranmere were involved in some memorable runs and giant-killing acts in cup competitions, including the 2000 League Cup final (which they lost to Leicester City), they were eventually relegated into English football's third tier in 2001, where they remain. Aldridge resigned just before Rovers went down, and nearly six years on he has yet to return to management despite recent press speculation heavily linking him to the job at Derry City F.C. This article is about the year 2000. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) are an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Coca-Cola Football League 1 for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system. ... This article is about the year 2001. ...

International career

Aldridge had already been recruited to play for the Republic of Ireland by the time he was approached by his boyhood club Liverpool at the start of 1987. When the Irish team came looking for him they found out that Ray Houghton was also eligible, as he also played for Oxford at the time. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ray Houghton (born January 9, 1962 in Glasgow) was an industrious footballer best known for his spell with the last great Liverpool team of the 1980s and his goals in big international fixtures for the Republic of Ireland. ...

That summer, Aldridge played for the Ireland side which had qualified, under Jack Charlton, for Euro 88 in West Germany, their first ever major finals. Ireland duly beat England 1-0 and drew 1-1 with the USSR but still went out of the competition after a defeat by eventual champions Holland. John Jack Charlton OBE (born Ashington, Northumberland, May 8, 1935) was a footballer who spent his whole career in the successful Leeds United side of the 1960s and 1970s and won the World Cup with England. ... Ruud Gullit lifts the trophy after winning the cup with the Netherlands The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 88) final tournament was held in West Germany. ... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Largest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Ireland; 18 February 1882) Worst defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First in... First international Belgium 1 - 4 Netherlands (Antwerp, Belgium; 30 April 1905) Largest win Netherlands 9 - 0 Norway (Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1 November 1972) Worst defeat Netherlands 2 - 12 England Amateur (The Hague, Netherlands; 1 April 1907) World Cup Appearances 8 (First in 1934) Best result Runners-up, 1974 and 1978 European...

Aldridge was struggling at international level at this time - he was playing well as a team performer, and Charlton was never unhappy, but it took him more than 20 matches to score his first international goal. His first goal came against Tunisia at Lansdowne Road. A DART train passes under the Lansdowne Road Rugby Football Stadium and over the level crossing as it enters the station of the same name. ...

Aldridge was a success with Sociedad and also played a crucial role in Ireland's path to the quarterfinals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. Though he had finally opened his goal account for his country, he didn't score at the World Cup and Ireland lost to the host nation in the last eight. The 1990 FIFA World Cup was designated by FIFA in 1984 to be held in Italy, making it the second country to host the event twice. ... First international Italy 6 - 2 France (Milan, Italy; 15 May 1910) Largest win Italy 9 - 0 USA (Brentford, England; 2 August 1948) Worst defeat Hungary 7 - 1 Italy (Budapest, Hungary; 6 April 1924) World Cup Appearances 16 (First in 1934) Best result Winners, 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006 European Championship Appearances...

With Ireland trailing 2-0 to Mexico in a group game in Orlando, Florida, Charlton tried to send Aldridge on as a substitute but was delayed by an official's sluggishness. Manager and player both launched expletive-laden tirades which were clearly heard by television viewers. Both were punished after the game, but when Aldridge finally was allowed on, he scored a goal to give Ireland a chance to get back into the game. Despite losing the game 2-1, Aldridge's goal was crucial in securing qualification for the second round. All four teams in the group had finished with the same number of points and the same goal difference. Ireland's qualification was at the expense of Norway, who had scored one goal fewer. Nickname: The City Beautiful, O-Town, 407 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ... The word expletive is currently used in three senses: syntactic expletives, expletive attributives, and bad language. The word expletive comes from the Latin verb explere, meaning to fill, via expletivus, filling out. It was introduced into English in the seventeenth century to refer to various kinds of padding -- the padding... In sports such as ice hockey and soccer, goal difference (that is, goals scored less goals conceded) is often the first tie-breaker used to rank teams which finish a competition with an equal number of points. ...

Career after football

He is now a pundit with various media organisations, both on Merseyside and on a national level, and continues to play in the Liverpool veterans' team. In 1998, he asked Hyder Jawad to ghostwrite his autobiography. John Aldridge: My Story was published by Hodder & Stoughton the year after.

John has recently gained media celebrity in Ireland by appearing in RTE's Charity You're A Star competition. Despite not having a natural singing voice, John won the competition and in the process raised money for his nominated charity Temple Street Children's Hospital. Radio Telefís Éireann[1] (RTÉ; IPA: ,  ) is the Public Service Broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. ... Charity Youre A Star (initially known as Youre A Star Charity Special) is a talent contest created by Radio Telefís Éireann, where various Irish Celebrities sing to raise money for the charity of their choice. ...

Honours

• 1979/80 Welsh Cup
• 1983/84 Football League Third Division (Level 3)
• 1984/85 Football League Second Division (Level 2)
• 1985/86 League Cup
• 1987/88 Football League First Division (Level 1)
• 1988/89 Charity Shield
• 1988/89 FA Cup
• 1989/90 Charity Shield

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External links

• Liverpool FC profile
• Profile at LFCHistory.net
• John Aldridge career stats at Soccerbase
• John Aldridge management career stats at Soccerbase

	Republic of Ireland squad - 1990 World Cup Quarter Finalists
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	Republic of Ireland squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup
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