Height 5 ft 11 ⁄4 in (182 cm) Name Tommy Johnston | ||
Full name Thomas Bourhill Johnston Date of birth (1927-08-18)18 August 1927 Date of death 4 September 2008(2008-09-04) (aged 81) | ||
Place of birth Loanhead, Scotland Place of death Shoalhaven, Australia | ||
Thomas Bourhill Johnston (18 August 1927 – 4 September 2008) was a Scottish professional footballer.
Johnston was the top scorer of English Division 2 for the 1957–58 season with 43 goals for Leyton Orient and Blackburn Rovers.
He had a withered arm, a legacy of an injury received while he was a miner and always played with this arm bandaged. Johnston died in the early hours of 4 September 2008 in Australia.
Upon hearing the news of Johnston's death in September 2008 O's chairman Barry Hearn immediately decided that Orient's south stand should be renamed The Tommy Johnston Stand.
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