Ron Atkinson

Ron Atkinson
Personnel
Surname	Ronald Franklin Atkinson
birthday	March 18, 1939
place of birth	Liverpool ,  England
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	Aston Villa
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1971	Oxford United	383 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1971-1974	Kettering Town
1974-1988	Cambridge United
1978-1981	West Bromwich Albion
1981-1986	Manchester United
1987-1988	West Bromwich Albion
1988-1989	Atlético Madrid
1989-1991	Sheffield Wednesday
1991-1994	Aston Villa
1995-1996	Coventry City
1997-1998	Sheffield Wednesday
1999	Nottingham Forest
1 Only league games are given.

Ronald Franklin "Ron" Atkinson , called Big Ron (born March 18, 1939 in Liverpool ) is an English football player , football coach and football expert on television.

Career

Player career

Atkinson was never a great footballer. He was signed to Aston Villa at the age of 17 , but was never used there. In 1959 Atkinson was sold to Oxford United . The Englishman made over 500 games for the U's and was the captain of three different English leagues.

Coaching career

After Atkinson ended his playing career, he became coach of Kettering Town in 1971 . He joined Cambridge United in 1974 . With Cambridge he rose from the fourth English division to the second highest within four years. In 1978 Atkinson took over his first division club, West Bromwich Albion . In the 1978/1979 season he was immediately third in the league with the Baggies. In June 1981 Atkinson became the manager of Manchester United . His first success with the Red Devils was in the 1982/1983 season when he won the English Cup . In 1985 the cup title was won again. After a bad season for Atkinson in Manchester , he took over West Bromwich Albion again in the fall of 1987. After only a year at his first big club, the Englishman went to Spain . There he was coach of Atlético Madrid for a year . In 1989 she returned to her home country. From 1989 to 1991 he was the coach of Sheffield Wednesday . With Sheffield he won the League Cup in 1990/91 . From 1991 to 1994 he was again in Birmingham at Aston Villa . At the Villans he was again League Cup winner. Despite the success, he was fired in 1994 and came to Coventry City for a year. Atkinson did his last coaching job at Nottingham Forest in 1999.

Further career

After his career he became a football expert for an English TV station. It was there that his “new language”, the “Ronglish”, was invented. It was really just football-related phrases that make comparisons with normal life. Due to his witty demeanor and his eye-catching jewelry, he was often portrayed as the loving prankster of the English media. That all changed on April 21, 2004 when Atkinson made racist slogans against Marcel Desailly - without knowing he was on the air. His saying about the Italian soccer player Francesco Totti during the soccer world championship in 2002 became known beyond the English borders. Atkinson said of Totti's new hairstyle: "He looks like a little whore". He also said that Chinese women are the ugliest in the world.

successes

all as trainers

• twice English cup winner with Manchester United (1983, 1985)
• two English League Cup winners with Sheffield Wednesday ( 1991 ) and Aston Villa (1994)

Web links

• Ron Atkinson in the soccerbase.com database