Ronnie Moran RIP

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RIP, sounds the like kind of guy I'd have liked to have got to watch, sorry I didnt have the opportunity to.

Read a great story from Souness about Ronnie.

"I was frightened of him," Souness admitted when speaking to Irish radio programme Off The Ball. "Let me tell you another story. We had played a Romanian team and I got involved with one of their players and I ended up doing something I shouldn't have done.

"I threw a punch at him and he had to go off. So at the end of the game - and remember this is the Iron Curtain time - but at the end of the game at Anfield, I went off the pitch and started climbing the stairs. As I'm going up the stairs I can see guy.

"He's broken his jaw, he's got ice packed into a towel and he's got it tied around his head. And I'm obviously chuckling at him. These two big guys in long leather coats appear from nowhere and start making their way towards me, up the stairs.

"Again, from nowhere, Ronnie appears. Ronnie had a massive chest! He was a great, big powerful man, Ronnie. He said to them 'Okay then, what are you going to do about it?' with some blue language thrown at them and they thought twice about confronting me.

"I was forever grateful for Ronnie preventing me from getting a back-hander that night.

"We were pretty frightened of Ronnie Moran. He wasn't a bully, don't get me wrong, he wasn't a bully but when he kicked off he could be ferocious. He'll be sorely missed."

RIP Ronnie.

Love that story.

Wasn't lucky enough to Ronnie live but those who have only seem to have positive things to say about the man. Without doubt he's ingrained in our club's history and his memory will live long.

R.I.P. Ronnie.

YNWA.

Is anyone reading Mr Liverpool at the moment? I'm loving it.

Is anyone reading Mr Liverpool at the moment? I'm loving it.

No but i am reading The Boot Room and Ronnie is in there an awful lot. Decent read so far but not the best.

Obviously much loved and will be remembered fondly by all LFC fans and the rest of the football world. Taken for granted a bit by the fans over the years, often the lot of an unsung backroom man. But in truth we new deep down he was part of the infrastructure, one of the rocks, part of the foundations the clubs great years were built on.

Saw him play a few times in the early sixties but again he wasn't the player that you talked about on bus home, but was always respected.

It's right that he should be mentioned in the same breath as Shankly, Paisley, Fagan.....and Ronnie Moran.

RIP Ronnie Moran.

No but i am reading The Boot Room and Ronnie is in there an awful lot. Decent read so far but not the best.

Good stuff mate. Pick it up after that. Some really interesting stuff in it.

What about setting up a petition to have the new stand named in his honour,?

The Ronnie Moran Stand has a good ring to it don't you think??

YNWA

What about setting up a petition to have the new stand named in his honour,?

The Ronnie Moran Stand has a good ring to it don't you think??

YNWA

That would be boss like. I reckon the new training ground might be an idea although the owners will no doubt sell the naming rights.

What about setting up a petition to have the new stand named in his honour,?

The Ronnie Moran Stand has a good ring to it don't you think??

YNWA

Great idea that & I hope the club do something along these lines as I believe like many hundreds of thousands of reds that the man more than deserves it.

Is anyone reading Mr Liverpool at the moment? I'm loving it.

Reading it at the moment,cracking read.
Reading between the lines ( no pun intended) Ronnie certainly took no sh*te & you can see why he was called  'Mr Liverpool',totally had the clubs interests at  heart & totally dedicated to the cause.

Reading it at the moment,cracking read.
Reading between the lines ( no pun intended) Ronnie certainly took no sh*te & you can see why he was called  'Mr Liverpool',totally had the clubs interests at  heart & totally dedicated to the cause.

Spot on mate. Ruthless in the right way. Treated everyone the same as well.

Spot on mate. Ruthless in the right way. Treated everyone the same as well.

Absolutely mate,anyone who thought they where above all the other players where certainly knocked down a peg or two,his attitude of if you didn't want to do the dirty work  & play footie for LFC then F**k off & play for someone else,he played such a massive massive part in the success of LFC as we all know.

Firstly condolences to the Moran family.
Mr Liverpool...that he certainly was. I said in a thread a few months back Ronnie was as instrumental as anyone in our success.
We've waited to long I'm desperate for those days back, Klopp has the hunger but do the players?
Anyway don't want to detract, RIP big man  and thank you.

Ronnie Moran funeral: Liverpool legend remembered

They crossed the generations, just as he had crossed the generations.

Those two great loves of Ronnie Moran’s life - family and football - gathered to say their farewell to a man who had touched all their lives.


And so many more lives besides, well beyond this simple funeral service at St Luke’s Church in his home town of Crosby.

For family, his beloved wife Joyce, sisters Peggy and Hilda and son Paul led the mourners through the wider family circle, four grandchildren and right down to five great grand-children, the most recent Harley born within just the last couple of weeks.

And then his other family, the football family.

It would be easier to say who wasn’t there than to list who was - a who’s who of Anfield legends gathered to pay their last respects to a man who had helped make them all what they were. A man who had forced the best out of them.

From the 60s team of Ian St John, Tommy Lawrence, Roger Hunt and Chris Lawler to the 70s and early 80s with Phil Thompson, Kenny Dalglish, David Fairclough, Phil Neal, Terry McDermott, David Johnson and Graeme Souness through Alan Hansen, Ian Rush and Mark Lawrenson to the later 80s and 90s with John Barnes, Jim Beglin, Jamie Redknapp, Robbie Fowler and Gary Gillespie to the more recent legends of Gary McAllister, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. Roy Evans too, a man who shared so many Boot Room memories and Liverpool benches with his great friend.


All gathered here in celebration and remembrance.

It was a service which bore all the hallmarks of a Moran touchline instruction - simple but just right.

After a beautiful introduction from singer Stephanie Hodges with “Songbird” the congregation rose for "Abide With Me," the hymn of so many Wembley occasions which Moran graced in his 49 astonishing years with the Reds.

Then after a reading from family member Ian Johnson, Phil Thompson rose to speak of a man he regarded as his “mentor” in a heartfelt and emotional eulogy.

The former Reds captain said he was honoured and privileged to speak at the occasion but joked that it was a fairly impossible to sum up Moran’s impact and achievements in the time available.

Thompson said: “He was 50 years nearly at our football club and 29 trophies - and I’ve got a couple of minutes!

“Ronnie and my paths crossed in 1969 when he became a coach at Liverpool. I was starting out on my life at Liverpool, a 15-year-old skinny kid from Kirkby coming as a two-year apprentice.

“Our paths crossed, B team, A team, reserve team and then to the first team - he took me on a magical tour doing things which I never ever dreamt I could do. It was wonderful and that’s why I talk about the great Bill Shankly as being my hero from when I was a kid, to Ronnie Moran who was my mentor.

“He was my guide, my motivator throughout my life, I’ve said it for many years, he was a wonderful help to me.”

And Thompson reflected on how Moran had played a crucial role in establishing Liverpool as a global force in football.

“In 1974 it all happened. Ronnie stepped forward when Shanks left, Ronnie took over the first team and that’s where it all started. That’s where we all got it as players, it was a fascinating time, because Ronnie was that guide.

“From 1974 we were just on a mission, the more trophies kept coming in, the more medals kept coming in, it was wonderful. And what did he call us lads? The big heads!

“How could we be the big heads? He wouldn’t let us get big headed, he was our driving force, he was the one who was demanding almost every day of our lives. Ronnie would be on to us from a Monday morning for the whole of the week preparing for the next Saturday.

This guy was relentless, it was pressure on, pushing our club forward to make sure we would win trophies, that we would go and do our best. He loved everything about the football club and we were just playing a part with him.

“It was a fantastic time and we would like to believe that we and what Ronnie Moran did for our football club was quite astonishing. He was brilliant.

“And after winning all those trophies, what did we become? A global football club. Global, with fans now all over the world. The call us a global brand - though I’m not sure how Ronnie would have taken that word! Would we ever have become that that (without him)?

“Yes, maybe Bill Shankly was responsible for us becoming this global, well supported football club throughout the world, yes maybe Bob Paisley has a part there, yes maybe Kenny Dalglish has a part to play in that.

“But I think of everyone who says we would never have got anywhere near what we did without having Ronnie Moran alongside them, and making sure he was that driving force. That is how important Ronnie Moran was to this football club

“Joyce, to you and your family, our football club owes you a massive debt of gratitude for what this great man did for us as players, for our football club in general.

“May you rest in peace Bugsy.”

Tomorrow's mosaic at Anfield

Ronnie Moran funeral: Liverpool legend remembered

They crossed the generations, just as he had crossed the generations.

Those two great loves of Ronnie Moran’s life - family and football - gathered to say their farewell to a man who had touched all their lives.


And so many more lives besides, well beyond this simple funeral service at St Luke’s Church in his home town of Crosby.

For family, his beloved wife Joyce, sisters Peggy and Hilda and son Paul led the mourners through the wider family circle, four grandchildren and right down to five great grand-children, the most recent Harley born within just the last couple of weeks.

And then his other family, the football family.

It would be easier to say who wasn’t there than to list who was - a who’s who of Anfield legends gathered to pay their last respects to a man who had helped make them all what they were. A man who had forced the best out of them.

From the 60s team of Ian St John, Tommy Lawrence, Roger Hunt and Chris Lawler to the 70s and early 80s with Phil Thompson, Kenny Dalglish, David Fairclough, Phil Neal, Terry McDermott, David Johnson and Graeme Souness through Alan Hansen, Ian Rush and Mark Lawrenson to the later 80s and 90s with John Barnes, Jim Beglin, Jamie Redknapp, Robbie Fowler and Gary Gillespie to the more recent legends of Gary McAllister, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. Roy Evans too, a man who shared so many Boot Room memories and Liverpool benches with his great friend.


All gathered here in celebration and remembrance.

It was a service which bore all the hallmarks of a Moran touchline instruction - simple but just right.

After a beautiful introduction from singer Stephanie Hodges with “Songbird” the congregation rose for "Abide With Me," the hymn of so many Wembley occasions which Moran graced in his 49 astonishing years with the Reds.

Then after a reading from family member Ian Johnson, Phil Thompson rose to speak of a man he regarded as his “mentor” in a heartfelt and emotional eulogy.

The former Reds captain said he was honoured and privileged to speak at the occasion but joked that it was a fairly impossible to sum up Moran’s impact and achievements in the time available.

Thompson said: “He was 50 years nearly at our football club and 29 trophies - and I’ve got a couple of minutes!

“Ronnie and my paths crossed in 1969 when he became a coach at Liverpool. I was starting out on my life at Liverpool, a 15-year-old skinny kid from Kirkby coming as a two-year apprentice.

“Our paths crossed, B team, A team, reserve team and then to the first team - he took me on a magical tour doing things which I never ever dreamt I could do. It was wonderful and that’s why I talk about the great Bill Shankly as being my hero from when I was a kid, to Ronnie Moran who was my mentor.

“He was my guide, my motivator throughout my life, I’ve said it for many years, he was a wonderful help to me.”

And Thompson reflected on how Moran had played a crucial role in establishing Liverpool as a global force in football.

“In 1974 it all happened. Ronnie stepped forward when Shanks left, Ronnie took over the first team and that’s where it all started. That’s where we all got it as players, it was a fascinating time, because Ronnie was that guide.

“From 1974 we were just on a mission, the more trophies kept coming in, the more medals kept coming in, it was wonderful. And what did he call us lads? The big heads!

“How could we be the big heads? He wouldn’t let us get big headed, he was our driving force, he was the one who was demanding almost every day of our lives. Ronnie would be on to us from a Monday morning for the whole of the week preparing for the next Saturday.

This guy was relentless, it was pressure on, pushing our club forward to make sure we would win trophies, that we would go and do our best. He loved everything about the football club and we were just playing a part with him.

“It was a fantastic time and we would like to believe that we and what Ronnie Moran did for our football club was quite astonishing. He was brilliant.

“And after winning all those trophies, what did we become? A global football club. Global, with fans now all over the world. The call us a global brand - though I’m not sure how Ronnie would have taken that word! Would we ever have become that that (without him)?

“Yes, maybe Bill Shankly was responsible for us becoming this global, well supported football club throughout the world, yes maybe Bob Paisley has a part there, yes maybe Kenny Dalglish has a part to play in that.

“But I think of everyone who says we would never have got anywhere near what we did without having Ronnie Moran alongside them, and making sure he was that driving force. That is how important Ronnie Moran was to this football club

“Joyce, to you and your family, our football club owes you a massive debt of gratitude for what this great man did for us as players, for our football club in general.

“May you rest in peace Bugsy.”

Anybody who didn't really know of Ronnie Moran should read that.

Complete and utter stalwart and back bone to our successes through so many eras.

'Legend' doesn't seem enough of a word to describe the man.

God bless.

I am sitting here waiting for the match to start and got to thinking about Ronnie Moran.He must be the only player, coach,trainer to have given so much service to one club from when he first signed as a professional in 1952 to when he retired.He was on our books as an amateur prior to signing professional.I doubt there will ever be another player who will spend the same length of time as Ronnie did with one club,one should take into account the number of managers Ronnie served under ,they were all astute enough to see the quality in the man.

I am sitting here waiting for the match to start and got to thinking about Ronnie Moran.He must be the only player, coach,trainer to have given so much service to one club from when he first signed as a professional in 1952 to when he retired.He was on our books as an amateur prior to signing professional.I doubt there will ever be another player who will spend the same length of time as Ronnie did with one club,one should take into account the number of managers Ronnie served under ,they were all astute enough to see the quality in the man.

Spot on Billy. The magnitude of his input into LFC is one to be championed across the world of football. It'd be hard to find another man who can come close to Buggsy.

Ronnie, this one's for you. Thanks for everything you've given to the club and to the fans. We will miss you. RIP.

Read a great story from Souness about Ronnie.

"I was frightened of him," Souness admitted when speaking to Irish radio programme Off The Ball. "Let me tell you another story. We had played a Romanian team and I got involved with one of their players and I ended up doing something I shouldn't have done.

"I threw a punch at him and he had to go off. So at the end of the game - and remember this is the Iron Curtain time - but at the end of the game at Anfield, I went off the pitch and started climbing the stairs. As I'm going up the stairs I can see guy.

"He's broken his jaw, he's got ice packed into a towel and he's got it tied around his head. And I'm obviously chuckling at him. These two big guys in long leather coats appear from nowhere and start making their way towards me, up the stairs.

"Again, from nowhere, Ronnie appears. Ronnie had a massive chest! He was a great, big powerful man, Ronnie. He said to them 'Okay then, what are you going to do about it?' with some blue language thrown at them and they thought twice about confronting me.

"I was forever grateful for Ronnie preventing me from getting a back-hander that night.

"We were pretty frightened of Ronnie Moran. He wasn't a bully, don't get me wrong, he wasn't a bully but when he kicked off he could be ferocious. He'll be sorely missed."

RIP Ronnie.

Yeah saw that story too, laughed my arse off reading it, anyone who heard Ronnie shouting from the dug-out will know how fierce he could be, bet the Romanian fellas crapped themselves with a wide-eyed Ronnie Moran coming at them swearing his head off.

RIP Ronnie