Saint and Greavsie’s best moments from Donald Trump cup draw to Mike Tyson chat

Liverpool legend Ian St John tragically passed away on Monday evening at the age of 82 after a long illness.

St John played 425 games for Liverpool, scoring 118 goals and helping the club win two league titles and an FA Cup under Bill Shankly.

He also went on to have a successful career as a pundit and formed a partnership with former Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves.

The pair fronted Saint and Greavsie on ITV for seven years before the network lost the rights to broadcast top tier football to Sky Sports when the Premier League formed in 1992.

The show is fondly remembered by football fans and Daily Star Sport takes a look back at some of it's best moments.

Donald Trump cup draw

Future US president Donald Trump joined Saint and Greavsie in 1992 to do the draw for the fifth-round of the Rumbelows Cup.

The pair had been in New York for the qualifying draw for 1994 World Cup and they carried out the draw in Trump Tower, with Greaves picking the home teams and Trump picking the away teams.

St John later told the Guardian : "The plan was to do an interview but then Bob [Patience, the show's producer] had another great idea – let’s ask Donald if he wants to get involved with the draw.

"He agreed, even though he clearly knew nothing about football. I think the appeal for Donald was being on a TV show that had a large audience in Britain. He saw it as an opportunity to promote himself and his company.

"To be fair to Donald, he was really good with us. He respected the fact Jimmy and I were former pros and asked about that as the crew set up to film the draw.

"We also had a good chat about golf as he was really into that and we played a bit. But, as I say, he had no idea about football and certainly no idea what Rumbelows was. We didn’t bother explaining it to him."

Mike Tyson interview

In 1988, Greaves travelled to Catskill, New York to interview Mike Tyson as part of ITV's coverage of the FA Cup final.

Greaves asked Tyson about his technique and 'Iron Mike' explained: "I just punch with snap, my shoulders and my legs bring the punches together with accuracy and precision".

Tyson then demonstrated his technique by throwing punches at Greaves, who later said: "When he stepped to the side and digged me, he caught me right in the ribs. I thought I was going to go down."

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    • Spitting Image

    During the show's heyday, the pair were featured on Spitting Image and when Greaves was laid low by the flu in 1990, his Spitting Image puppet hosted the show alongside St John.

    Voiced by commentator Peter Brackley, the episode is one of their most memorable.

    Final episode

    On the show's final ever episode, broadcast from Stockholm during the 1992 European Championships, the pair signed off by singing the Rolling Stones song 'The Last Time'.

    Greaves later told the Guardian : "ITV had a big sulk, they'd lost the football to Sky, everything got wiped off the screen and we got wiped off with it.

    "We knew we were getting the bullet long before, if you see our last ever show, it was him and I on one of these bicycles and we go out ­singing 'This will be the last time.'"

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