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Roger Hunt league titles and FA Cup glory with Liverpool
The 1965 Liverpool FA Cup winning goal scorers back together again as Roger Hunt presents Ian St John with a lifetime achievement honour at the North West Media Awards staged at the Emirates Stadium in Manchester Fifth in a series of articles profiling the career of England 1966 World Cup winner Roger Hunt and the clubs he represented SHORTLY after his National Service was completed, 21-year-old Roger Hunt signed professional forms with Liverpool on July 29, 1959,
writes Garry Clarke. He admits it would be unlikely he would be signed at such an age in the modern game.
IT was 65 years ago that a 17-year-old schoolboy made his debut at senior level before going on to become Warrington’s most famous footballer, writes Garry Clarke. Destined to be a World Cup winner with England, Roger Hunt donned the colours of Stockton Heath FC (now Warrington Town) for the first time during their Mid Cheshire League encounter with Linotype on November 17, 1955. It was not the most auspices of starts to a career which would bring many honours, including the ultimate prize in 1966.
Roger Hunt, back in 2005 Fifth in the table, Stockton Heath crashed to a 4-1 home defeat against league leaders Linotype in what the Warrington Guardian described as “the worst display of the season” although the article did report “one of two debutants in the Heath team, left winger Hunt had a good game”.