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Tommy Smith MBE
 
 
Former Liverpool, Swansea & England Soccer star
 
  Tough, battling wing half straght from the Bill Shankley mould, tenacious and extreamley hardey; it was said in jest that the young man had been quarried, not born. Signed for the pool, the team of his birthplace,on his seventeenth birthday,April 1992, he was a member of the mini World Cup team that carried off the trophy at Wembley.  
  Only won one England cap, probably due to his toughness which frightened the officials as well as the players,but collected a case load of club honours including a 4 league championship, 2 FA Cups and a European Cup winners medal before helping Swansea out of Division 3 in 1978/9, his final season of league football.