He reached the twenty-goal mark on 13 May in a 21 win at Wimbledon, and finished the season as the club's top scorer with 22 goals in the league, eight in the FA Cup, two in the League Cup, and two in the Charity Shield, amounting to 34 in all competitions.[17]. of experts including David Aldridge, Sam Amick, Marcus . John Aldridge - Head and Fruit, 1930 - Tate - Not on Display. Alan Hansen said much the same thing. I didn't really see the point in football. Aldridge spent two seasons at Real Sociedad, becoming the first non-Basque player to sign for the club in several decades as they abandoned their selective recruitment policy. Initially signed as a replacement for Ian Rush, Aldridge spent over two successful seasons at Liverpool, winning the league and FA Cup once, and narrowly missing out on a second league title. It was Aldridge who enjoyed the better form during the season, with Rush being hindered by injuries. Dalglish had been interested in signing a number of other strikers including Chelsea's David Speedie and Arsenal's Charlie Nicholas for a number of months before settling on Aldridge. March 22, 1693/94 and d. Sept 18, 1766. sort by. [24], Under Aldridge, Tranmere reached the 2000 Football League Cup Final (which they lost to Leicester City) and consecutive FA Cup quarter-finals in 2000 and 2001. The home . Aldridge was struggling at international level at this time he was playing well as a team performer, and Charlton was never unhappy, but it took him 20 matches to score his first international goal, which came against Tunisia at Lansdowne Road on 19 October 1988. There was a time when I wondered if I would ever muster the strength to play. She's the daughter of Gloria Allred, another famous lawyer who has fought for . A Speck in the Sea - The New York Times Substitute Ian Rish, who replaced Aldridge, scored twice in extra time to earn Liverpool a 32 victory. Ex Liverpool, Real Sociedad, Oxford, Tranmere, Newport County and Ireland international footballer. Both were punished after the game, but when Aldridge finally was allowed on, after 6 full minutes of trying, he scored a goal to give Ireland a chance to get back into the game. I'd only been to one before Hillsborough, which was when my grandmother died. Minute by minute we could feel the situation getting worse. At Tranmere, Aldridge also came close to the chance of winning another major trophy something which would have been unthinkable at the club just a couple of years earlier as they took Aston Villa to a penalty shoot-out in the 199394 League Cup semi-finals before bowing out to the eventual competition winners. In the afternoon, I took my daughter, Joanne, to Anfield to lay some red roses by the Shankly Gates. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. He signed for Kenny Dalglish's side on 27 January 1987 for 750,000 and was initially used as a partner for Rush (filling a position previously occupied by player-manager Dalglish and fellow striker Paul Walsh) and as an occasional substitute. The game was brought to a halt. My first tangible response was to pull out of the Republic of Ireland's World Cup qualifying match against Spain in Dublin on 26 April. I'm trying to track the lineage of my 4th Great-Grandmother Mary Aldridge McComas. John had 3 siblings: Elizabeth Aldridge and 2 other siblings. He attended the funerals of many of the victims, gave support to the injured and the bereaved, and publicly contemplated giving up the game. John William Aldridge (born 18 September 1958) is a former football player and manager. [citation needed], Aldridge scored 40 goals in 75 appearances for Sociedad over two seasons,[19] with the club encouraged to make more signings from English football in 1990, namely Dalian Atkinson and Kevin Richardson. Aldridge was a success with Sociedad and also played a crucial role in Ireland's path to the quarter-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.