fullname youthclubs years death_date youthyears clubs birth_place caps goals nationalteam height position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
john jameson lourdes celtic 1975 1978-1981 1981-1990 28 october 2002 1975 lourdes celtic st. patrick 's athletic bohemians dublin , ireland 5 68 205 0 17 70 league of ireland xi 5 9 striker 1 1984 27 march 1957 jackie jameson
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jackie jameson

jackie jameson was an irish soccer player during the 1970s and 1980s .
jameson represented shamrock rovers , dundalk -lrb- loan -rrb- , st. patricks athletic and bohemians during his career .
he is known around dalymount park as `` the great man '' .
he was inducted into the bohemian f.c. hall of fame in november 2007 .
jameson played his schoolboy football at lourdes celtic and cherry orchard before moving into league of ireland football with shamrock rovers in 1975 .
he made a scoring debut on october 21 , 1975 in a fai league cup tie while in the previous month on the 11th of september he scored against japan in a 3-2 win in tokyo .
he struggled , however , to gain regular first team football under john giles and after only 5 appearances he moved to st patricks athletic in 1978 where he began to establish himself as a player of some class .
he spent 3 seasons at pats , reaching a fai cup final in 1980 -lrb- losing to waterford -rrb- before he joined billy young 's bohemians in 1981 .
he scored on his league debut on the 13th of september against sligo , the same day paul doolin , who also scored , made his debut .
he spent 9 years at dalymount park until his retirement in 1990 .
jackie would end up as bohemian 's top league scorer in 5 of those seasons .
he was runner up in the fai cup in 1982 and 1983 and runner up in the league of ireland in 1984 and 1985 .
he was never capped at full international level either .
however , he was on the league of ireland xi and played in olympic qualifiers .
he played 303 competitive matches for bohs after making his debut against shelbourne on august 30 , 1981 with his last game on january 28 , 1990 against ucd .
scored once in six european appearances .
jackie jameson died in 2002 .
he is still a legend amongst the bohs fans and many songs and flags have been created in honour of him .
a facebook tribute page was set up in 2012 .
it can be found under the name jackie jameson irish football legend .
one of the three function rooms in dalymount park is named the jackie jameson bar .
