Jones’ father Ivor and uncle Bryn both played for Wales, with his uncle’s transfer from Wolves to Arsenal for \u00a314,500 in 1938 a world record at the time.<\/p>\n
Jones played 580 club games in an 18-year career between 1952 and 1970.<\/p>\n
After starting with his home club Swansea, where he scored 54 goals in 193 appearances in all competitions, Jones transferred to Tottenham for \u00a335,000 in 1958.<\/p>\n
Jones scored 159 goals in 378 games in all competitions for Spurs and is considered one of their greatest players.<\/p>\n
He left White Hart Lane for Fulham in 1968.<\/p>\n
Jones was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame in 2013 and later that year was the recipient of a lifetime achievement trophy at the Sport Wales awards.<\/p>\n
Wales captain and Tottenham defender Ben Davies paid tribute to Jones.<\/p>\n
“It is fantastic Cliff Jones is being recognised for his incredible contribution to both club and international football,\u201c said Davies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is recognised as one of the true greats of the game at both Swansea and Tottenham and of course with Wales.<\/p>\n
“I was lucky enough to meet him when I first arrived at Spurs, where I forged a close bond with him and his wife, who often had me round to the house, and I’d hear amazing stories about his life and football career.<\/p>\n
“To have him present me with my 100th cap was an absolute honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, former Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) chief executive Roger Lewis, who held the role between 2006 and 2015, has been made an MBE for voluntary services to service personnel and veterans in his role as chair of the Churchill Lines Foundation.<\/p>\n
Tom Hooper, who is from Newport and is the Bristol Metropolitan head of sport, has been appointed an MBE for services to education.<\/p>\n
Cardiff City director Steve Borley is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Welsh economy across engineering, construction and sports participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones’ father Ivor and uncle Bryn both played for Wales, with his uncle’s transfer from Wolves to Arsenal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}