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John Osborne

Posted on: Wed 16 May 2007

Born: Barlborough, Derbyshire, December 1940

Died: November 1999

Position: Goalkeeper

West Bromwich Albion: January 1967 to June 1972; January 1973 to July 1978

Football League: 250 appearances

FA Cup: 24 appearances

Football League Cup: 16 appearances

Others: 22 appearances

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Won: FA Cup winner's medal in 1967/68, Football League Cup runners-up medal in 1969/70, promotion from Division Two in 1975/76.

Profile: Albion's 'bionic' goalkeeper, Ossie was a martyr to injury and had a plastic strip in one of his fingers.

A crowd favourite, he won the FA Cup with Albion in 1968 and was the leader of the club's team on the BBC's Quiz Ball show where he was a natural. As a youngster he represented England schoolboys as a wing-half.

Osborne joined Albion from Chesterfield, retiring in June 1972 before returning to the club six months later. He finally left the club to join Johnny Giles at Shamrock Rovers in 1978.

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