Bonus Badmouth - Ronnie Moore

The temptation to lay in to certain players  and blame them for a decade of failure in the 70s is great and one I can't resist.

 

If Ronnie Moore was still playing for Cardiff City now, and say by magic he remained perennially 25, I doubt if his goal tally would have reached double figures yet. He would be stubbornly on nine goals since 1997. For a striker,  this is unacceptable. Forget Cornelius, City paid nearly £100,000 in 1970s money for this, perhaps their worst ever striker.   That's £401,116.18 in nowadays cash. Andy Saville scored more.

 

A Google search for 'Ronnie Moore scores for Cardiff City' returned this image.

Ronnie scores

Wikipedia skirts the issue, somewhat, 'After a season at Cardiff City, Moore moved to Rotherham United in 1980, where he went on to become one of the club's most prolific ever strikers.'

 

Fair play, Ronnie would run all day. Usually, away from the irate fans chasing him down the street after another barren performance.  But his style of play was more 'tiresome' than 'tireless'

 

Stephen Hawkin would have been more effective up front, at least the ball might have deflected awkwardly off his wheelchair and deceived the goalkeeper once in a while.

For reasons known only to football fans, Ronnie was a popular figure at Ninian Park. I hated him. Rumour has it that City fans took to wearing badges stating, 'I saw Ronnie Moore Score'. It should have read 'I saw Ronnie Moore and Swore'.

Little known football fact: Ronnie was heavily featured in a BBC football documentary from 1999 called 'Rubbish in the 70s", or should have been.

 

Not much better as a manager ...