Liverpool among clubs to wish support to hospitalised John Toshack

Liverpool, Swansea and Cardiff have wished their former striker John Toshack well after reports that he has been in intensive care in a Barcelona hospital.

According to the Spanish newspaper El Diario Vasco, the 72-year-old was taken to hospital last Monday with severe pneumonia after contracting coronavirus and since Saturday has been on a ventilator. Toshack played for Cardiff before his hugely successful spell in the 1970s with Liverpool, and was then player-manager of Swansea.

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Liverpool posted on Twitter on Sunday afternoon: “The thoughts of everyone at LFC are with John Toshack and his family. Keep fighting, John.”