Tommy Johnston

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Tommy Johnston

| image =

| fullname = Thomas Bourhill Johnston{{Hugman|10311|access-date=23 April 2017}}

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|8|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Loanhead, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|9|4|1927|8|18|df=y}}

| death_place = Shoalhaven, Australia

| position = Striker

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1949–1951

| clubs1 = Kilmarnock{{cite web |url=http://www.fitbastats.com/kilmarnock/player.php?playerid=7366 |title=Kilmarnock player details: Johnston, Tommy |website=FitbaStats |publisher=Bobby Sinnet & Thomas Jamieson |access-date=17 April 2020}}

| caps1 = 19

| goals1 = 17

| years2 = 1951–1952

| clubs2 = Darlington

| caps2 = 27

| goals2 = 9

| years3 = 1952

| clubs3 = Oldham Athletic

| caps3 = 5

| goals3 = 3

| years4 = 1952–1954

| clubs4 = Norwich City

| caps4 = 60

| goals4 = 28

| years5 = 1954–1956

| clubs5 = Newport County

| caps5 = 63

| goals5 = 46

| years6 = 1956–1958

| clubs6 = Leyton Orient

| caps6 = 87

| goals6 = 70

| years7 = 1958–1959

| clubs7 = Blackburn Rovers

| caps7 = 36

| goals7 = 22

| years8 = 1959–1961

| clubs8 = Leyton Orient

| caps8 = 93

| goals8 = 51

| years9 = 1961

| clubs9 = Gillingham

| caps9 = 35

| goals9 = 10

| totalcaps = 425 | totalgoals = 256

}}

Thomas Bourhill Johnston (18 August 1927 – 4 September 2008) was a Scottish professional footballer who scored 256 goals from 425 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues.

Johnston was the Football League Second Division top scorer for the 1957–58 season with 43 goals for Leyton Orient and Blackburn Rovers.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops.html |title=Football League Div 1 & 2 Leading Goalscorers 1947–92 |first=James M. |last=Ross |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) |date=20 June 2019 |access-date=17 April 2020}} He was Orient's all-time top scorer and in 1999 was voted their greatest player of all time.{{cite web |url=http://www.leytonorient.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10439~1384275,00.html |title=Tommy Johnston |publisher=Leyton Orient F.C. |date=4 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914202544/http://www.leytonorient.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10439~1384275,00.html |archive-date=14 September 2008}}

He had a withered arm, a legacy of an injury received while he was a miner, and always played with this arm bandaged.{{cite book |title=Blackburn Rovers: the official encyclopaedia |first=Mike |last=Jackman |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |date=1994 |page=[https://archive.org/details/blackburnroverso0000jack/page/132 132] |isbn=1-873626-70-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/blackburnroverso0000jack/page/132}} Johnston and his family emigrated to Australia in 1972, and he died in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, on 4 September 2008.

The south stand at Orient's Brisbane Road ground was named the Tommy Johnston Stand in his honour, and his ashes were interred there.{{cite web |url=http://www.leytonorient.com/page/NewsDetail/0,,10439~1828526,00.html |title=The Happy Wanderer returns home |publisher=Leyton Orient F.C. |date=17 October 2009 |access-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019120415/https://www.leytonorient.com/page/NewsDetail/0,,10439~1828526,00.html |archive-date=19 October 2009}}