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Tommy Johnston
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Bourhill Johnston
Date of birth	18 August 1927
Place of birth	Loanhead, Scotland
Date of death	4 September 2008 (aged 81)
Place of death	Shoalhaven, Australia
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1949–1951	Kilmarnock
1951–1952	Darlington
1952	Oldham Athletic
1952–1954	Norwich City
1954–1956	Newport County
1956–1958	Leyton Orient
1958–1959	Blackburn Rovers
1959–1961	Leyton Orient
1961	Gillingham
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Bourhill Johnston (18 August 1927 – 4 September 2008) was a Scottish professional footballer who scored 256 goals from 425 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues.

Johnston was the Football League Second Division top scorer for the 1957–58 season with 43 goals for Leyton Orient and Blackburn Rovers.^[4] He was Orient's all-time top scorer and in 1999 was voted their greatest player of all time.^[5]

He had a withered arm, a legacy of an injury received while he was a miner, and always played with this arm bandaged.^[2] Johnston and his family emigrated to Australia in 1972, and he died in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, on 4 September 2008.^[5]

The south stand at Orient's Brisbane Road ground was named the Tommy Johnston Stand in his honour, and his ashes were interred there.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Tommy Johnston". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
^ ^a ^b Jackman, Mike (1994). Blackburn Rovers: the official encyclopaedia. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 132. ISBN 1-873626-70-3.
^ "Kilmarnock player details: Johnston, Tommy". FitbaStats. Bobby Sinnet & Thomas Jamieson. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
^ Ross, James M. (20 June 2019). "Football League Div 1 & 2 Leading Goalscorers 1947–92". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 17 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Tommy Johnston". Leyton Orient F.C. 4 September 2008. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008.
^ "The Happy Wanderer returns home". Leyton Orient F.C. 17 October 2009. Archived from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009.

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