{"id":6970,"date":"2026-06-04T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:02:47","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-90-david-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=6970","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.90: David Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Years: <\/strong>1976-1982<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Appearances: <\/strong>213<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goals: <\/strong>78<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trophies: <\/strong>First Division (1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82), European Cup (1977, 1978, 1981), UEFA Super Cup (1977), League Cup (1981, 1982)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Johnson was the apple of <strong><u>Bill Shankly<\/u><\/strong>\u2019s eye and a player Everton never considered allowing to cross Stanley Park in a thousand moons.<\/p>\n<p>Shankly\u2019s repeated efforts to sign the attacker, who grew up a Liverpool supporter, fell upon deaf ears at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it was <strong><u>Bob Paisley<\/u><\/strong>  who benefited from Johnson\u2019s talents, later acquiring him from Ipswich Town for a club-record fee in the summer of 1976.<\/p>\n<p>After establishing his role in the side, the Scouser became a consistent performer and scorer during an era of unprecedented success for the Reds. <\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed his best individual season in 1979-80 with 27 goals, of which 21 were in the First Division to help Paisley\u2019s men lift the title. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson was left frustrated at not being involved in the European Cup finals of 1977 and 1978, so made the most of every second of his opportunity in 1981. <\/p>\n<p>He started and finished that showpiece against Real Madrid in Paris, which was decided by <strong><u>Alan Kennedy<\/u><\/strong>\u2019s late goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years: 1976-1982 Appearances: 213 Goals: 78 Trophies: First Division (1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82), European Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}