A league, European Cup and UEFA Cup winner with the Reds, the Welshman made exactly 100 appearances for the club during the second half of the 1970s.
The tough-tackling left-back was signed from Wrexham by Bob Paisley as a 20-year-old during the summer of 1975 and featured on 14 occasions in all competitions during his debut season.
He unfortunately missed out on a league winner’s medal by just one match, with his 13 appearances in the top flight insufficient to qualify at that time, though was on the bench for both legs of the UEFA Cup final win over Club Brugge.
Any personal disappointment was forgotten in the following campaign as Jones made the position his own, clocking up 59 games in a hugely memorable season.
Paisley’s charges successfully defended their championship crown – Jones played 39 of 42 fixtures – while simultaneously making history as the first Liverpool team to lift the European Cup.
The defender was involved throughout the run to the final and started in Rome as Borussia Monchengladbach were beaten 3-1 to clinch Old Big Ears.
Jones’ contributions to a journey that had seen the Reds eliminate Saint-Etienne and FC Zurich in preceding rounds were amusingly summarised on a banner that has taken a legendary place in LFC folklore.
“JOEY ATE THE FROGS LEGS,” it read. “MADE THE SWISS ROLL, NOW HES MUNCHING GLADBACH.”
