hospital stay and a six-way Heart bypass. In his later years, Smith had a hip replacement operation (both knees and an elbow were also made of plastic) and also began to suffer from arthritis to the extent that he could not work and often needed a wheelchair or walking stick and had to claim incapacity benefit. Smith had his benefit payments stopped for a short time after he managed to take a penalty on the Wembley pitch at half-time during the 1996 FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Manchester United; he stated that "I couldn't believe they would do that, I was getting money for charity. I only kicked the ball once." Smith was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in October 2014. Death Smith died, at the age of 74, on 12 April 2019 at Green Heyes nursing home in Crosby after "growing increasingly frail and suffering from a variety of ailments over the last three months", according to his daughter. Statistics Source: Honours Liverpool Football League First Division: 1965–66, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77 FA Cup: 1964–65, 1973–74 FA Charity Shield: 1965 (shared), 1966, 1974, 1977 (shared) European Cup: 1976–77, 1977–78 UEFA Cup: 1972–73, 1975–76 UEFA Super Cup: 1977 References Specific General 1945 births 2019 deaths Association football defenders England international footballers England under-23 international footballers English Football League players English Football League representative players English autobiographers English expatriate footballers English expatriate sportspeople in the United States English football managers English footballers English male non-fiction writers Expatriate soccer players in the United States FA Cup Final players Footballers from Liverpool Liverpool F.C. non-playing staff Liverpool F.C. players Los Angeles Aztecs players Members of the Order of the British Empire North American Soccer League (1968–1984) coaches North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Swansea City A.F.C. players Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–1993) players UEFA Champions League winning players UEFA Cup winning players