PAUL BROWN looks at one of the Seventies’ biggest football stars

Jon Stark arrived on the football scene in the late 1970s, a prolific striker who played for numerous clubs in England and abroad on a nomadic career path motivated entirely by money.
A self-styled “Matchwinner for Hire”, his terms of service were set out on his business card: “£1,000 per match plus £250 per goal, no payment for lost games.” Playing for different clubs every week, wherever the promise of payment took him, Stark was the ultimate football mercenary. He was, of cours...