Thomas Bourhill Johnston (18 August 1927 – 4 September 2008) was a Scottish professional footballer who scored 256 goals from 425 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues.
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Full name | Thomas Bourhill Johnston[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1927-08-18)18 August 1927[1] | ||
Place of birth | Loanhead,[1] Scotland | ||
Date of death | 4 September 2008(2008-09-04) (aged 81)[1] | ||
Place of death | Shoalhaven,[1] Australia | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1949–1951 | Kilmarnock[3] | 19 | (17) |
1951–1952 | Darlington | 27 | (9) |
1952 | Oldham Athletic | 5 | (3) |
1952–1954 | Norwich City | 60 | (28) |
1954–1956 | Newport County | 63 | (46) |
1956–1958 | Leyton Orient | 87 | (70) |
1958–1959 | Blackburn Rovers | 36 | (22) |
1959–1961 | Leyton Orient | 93 | (51) |
1961 | Gillingham | 35 | (10) |
Total | 425 | (256) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Johnston was the Football League Second Division top scorer for the 1957–58 season with 43 goals for Leyton Orient and Blackburn Rovers.[4] He was Orient's all-time top scorer and in 1999 was voted their greatest player of all time.[5]
He had a withered arm, a legacy of an injury received while he was a miner, and always played with this arm bandaged.[2] Johnston and his family emigrated to Australia in 1972, and he died in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, on 4 September 2008.[5]
The south stand at Orient's Brisbane Road ground was named the Tommy Johnston Stand in his honour, and his ashes were interred there.[6]
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