Joseph (Joey) Patrick Jones was born 4th Mar 1955, and grew up in the seaside resort of Llandudno, North Wales.
A Liverpool fanatic from an early age, Joey Jones joined Wrexham Football Club in 1971 as an apprentice, after impressing manager John Neal during 'trials' at the club.
Joey Jones made his professional football debut for Wrexham at the age of seventeen, in a Welsh Cup tie against Chester City, and over the next few years ago Joey Jones established himself as a regular in the first team.
At the age of twenty, Joey left Wrexham to sign for his boyhood heroes, Liverpool and signed for a fee of £ 110,000 in July 1975. He made his league debut for Liverpool on 16 August in a 2-0 league defeat to Queens Park Rangers and during his first season at Liverpool he made thirteen league appearances, which was unfortunately one short of the requirement for a championship medal, as Liverpool went on to win the league.
The following season 1976-77 was Joey's best, as Liverpool arguably enjoyed their best ever season. Joey Jones established a regular place in the first team, only missing three of the forty-two league games Liverpool played that year, as Liverpool went on to win the league and then won the European cup after their memorable triumph in Rome against German side Borussia Moenchengladbach, A 2-1 defeat to Manchester United in the FA Cup final prevented Liverpool from winning the 'treble' and it being the greatest season in the Liverpool's history.
The following season Joey was to lose his place in the first team to Tommy Smith and new signing Alan Hansen and he ever re-signed for Wrexham after making exactly one hundred appearances and scoring three goals for the Reds
As a boyhood Liverpool fan, Joey Jones spent his youth watching Liverpool from the 'Kop' and cheering on his heroes, he even has a 'Liverbird' tattooed on his forearm. Joey was an enthusiastic and tough-tackling left-back who uncompromising style quickly made him a favorite with the Liverpool crowd.
Joey was blamed for his clenched fist salute as he ran out on to the Anfield pitch and the Kop would respond by singing his name over and over again, his exploits during the European Cup campaign of 1977 we're famed by a banner reading 'Joey Ate The Frogs Legs, Made The Swiss Roll, Now He's Munching Gladbach '
Although Joey Jones only spent three seasons at Liverpool, he soon became a firm favorite and a true Liverpool legend.
