{"id":110,"date":"2026-04-23T22:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/2026\/04\/23\/focus-on-john-boyle-soccervoice\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:11:32","slug":"focus-on-john-boyle-soccervoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Focus On; John Boyle \u2013 SOCCERVOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-32357\">\n<div class=\"post-content clear\">\n<p>Embed from Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Bio: <\/p>\n<p>John Boyle (born 25 December 1946) is a Scottish former footballer who played during the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Motherwell, he signed for London club Chelsea as a 15-year-old whilst on holiday in the city. Boyle was one of the lesser-known, but nevertheless important, members of the successful Chelsea side of the period, usually playing in the midfield ball-winner role. He made his Chelsea debut in a League Cup semi-final against Aston Villa and ultimately picked up a winners\u2019 medal in that competition the same year after playing in Chelsea\u2019s two-legged final victory over Leicester City.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-32357\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He played in Chelsea\u2019s FA Cup final loss to Tottenham Hotspur two years later but missed out due to injury when they won their FA Cup final against Leeds United in 1970. He made amends the following season, playing in both matches of Chelsea\u2019s successful Cup Winners\u2019 Cup final against Real Madrid in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>  Factfile:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full Name: John Boyle<\/li>\n<li>Position: Defender<\/li>\n<li>Date of Birth: 25.12.1946<\/li>\n<li>Birthplace: Motherwell<\/li>\n<li>Nation: Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Caps: \u2013<\/li>\n<li>Goals: \u2013<\/li>\n<li>Club Career: Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>Period: 1964-1973\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>League Games, 198<\/li>\n<li>League Goals, 10<\/li>\n<li>Previous Club: \u2013\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Collection\n<\/li>\n<li>More Facts\n<\/li>\n<li>Photo Gallery\n<\/li>\n<li>Category\n<\/li>\n<li>Video\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-pinterest wp-block-embed-pinterest\"\/>\n\t\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-151394945-32357-69ea99135cf34\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=15.8-a.5#blog_id=151394945&amp;post_id=32357&amp;origin=soccervoice.com&amp;obj_id=151394945-32357-69ea99135cf34\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-151394945-32357-69ea99135cf34\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--\/.post-content--><\/p>\n<footer class=\"post-meta-container clear\">\n<div class=\"entry-author author-avatar-show\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2641e71ea67100b55a9e1eee0d60c378e78766f4803dbc15b6e4b3fa31db835b?s=90&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2641e71ea67100b55a9e1eee0d60c378e78766f4803dbc15b6e4b3fa31db835b?s=180&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-90 photo\" height=\"90\" width=\"90\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"author-title\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tPublished by <span class=\"author-name\">soccervoice<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-heading --><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tView all posts by soccervoice\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-auhtor --><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p> <!-- \/post-meta-container --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images Bio: John Boyle (born 25 December 1946) is a Scottish former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}