text: After playing After retiring from playing, St John managed both his former club Motherwell (1973–1974) and Portsmouth (1974–1977, assisted by former Motherwell teammate Willie Hunter). He also served as assistant manager at Sheffield Wednesday and Coventry City. As Motherwell manager, St John sold goalkeeper Keith MacRae and gave a debut to young forward Willie Pettigrew. Motherwell finished ninth in the 1973–74 season, his only term in charge.
  After leaving Sheffield Wednesday in 1979, St John became a football pundit. He struck up a successful TV partnership with fellow ex-footballer Jimmy Greaves, with their Saint and Greavsie programme running from 1985 until 1992. He also set up several football academies for the coaching of younger players called the Ian St John Soccer Camps. Liverpool twice ran a fan poll of their favourite Liverpool players, "100 Players Who Shook The Kop"; St John finished 21st in 2006 and 33rd in 2013.
  Illness and death
  In June 2014, St John announced that he had undergone surgery for bladder cancer in April of that year, removing his bladder and prostate gland. He died on 1 March 2021 at Arrowe Park Hospital after a long illness, aged 82.
  International career statistics
  Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each St John goal.
  Honours
  Liverpool
  Football League First Division: 1963–64, 1965–66
  Football League Second Division: 1961–62
  FA Cup: 1964–65
  FA Charity Shield: 1964, 1965, 1966
  European Cup Winners' Cup: runner-up 1965–66
  Individual
  Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductee: 2008