Rodney Marsh (footballer)

Rodney William Marsh ( born October 11, 1944 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England ) is a former English footballer. He was named by his father after the battleship " HMS Rodney," on which he had previously served, and later became known as "Clown Prince of English Football " known due to several serene moments in English football. After he had been active as a player for the clubs Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City, the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the England national team, then he appeared as a football expert and commentator in the British media in appearance.

Career as a football player

The striker Marsh grew out of a highly talented loner - generation aufstrebte in the 1960s and 1970s and their icons were players such as George Best, Peter Osgood and Stan Bowles. His career began Marsh is originally at Fulham, where he debuted in 1963, but was often affected by injuries and disputes with the club's management. By a collision with a goal post and an opposing defender, he lost the hearing in his left ear and after a dispute with Vic Buckingham it was sold in March 1966 for 15,000 British pounds in the third class at the Third Division Queens Park Rangers. There he experienced in his first season the most successful period of his career, came in 53 games on 44 goals and led his club to both the third league championship - and the associated rise in the Second Division - and to win the English League Cup, with the Rangers for a 0:2 and the interim compensation from Marsh won 3-2 there in the finale. In the 1967/68 season the club has now been achieved, a further rise in the top English league, but this was followed after only a year of direct descent.

In 1972, Marsh was engaged by the trained by Malcolm Allison club Manchester City for the then club record fee of 200,000 internal pounds. At the time of the change from Marsh in March of this year, Manchester was only four points behind the table top, but slipped to the end of the season in fourth place from where Marsh himself for ever blamed in the wake of the loss of the league title, because his style of play obviously not with his new team corresponded at this time. However, he was subsequently time for City to one of the best players, contributed to the 1972/73 season 19 goals and became the basis of his performances to the audience favorite. He reached with his new club in 1974 again a League Cup final, in which he was subject, however, now the Wolverhampton Wanderers. After disagreements with new manager Tony Book, he left the club then in the early stages of the season 1974/75 again.

A revival of his career came back to the U.S. professional league NASL instead, when Marsh the Tampa Bay Rowdies joined and was active in over 100 games there. He returned during the 1976/77 season short for Fulham back, where he played alongside his old friend George Best and Bobby Moore before he again hired in Tampa Bay in 1977, there still acted until 1982, while in 1978 the " All- Star Team " is selected. Besides a short time coach in 1984, he was eleven years secretary of the association.

For the English National debuted Marsh 1971 against Switzerland and came to a total of nine matches in which he scored a goal during the 3-0 victory against Wales. His international career was thereby terminated prematurely after he met the then-coach Alf Ramsey with a sarcastic comment. As Marsh opened up in an interview in 2005, Ramsey told him: "I will watch you in the first 45 minutes and if you do not work harder I'll take you at half time from the playing field. " To which Marsh replied, " Oh God! We only get a cup of tea and oranges in Fulham. "He was then taken into account ever again for the English national team.

Activities after his resignation

After his playing career footballer Marsh entered strengthened as a football expert in the media and made by his outspoken analysis on English football a name.

He participated in a long-term action mockery about the club Bradford City and their supporters in the 1999/2000 season, where he expressed his disapproval of the competitiveness of the club in the Premier League. Because he was sure that the club were relegated from the English top division, he offered to let fully shave off his hair, if his prediction would not be achieved. Since Bradford actually was able to secure the league, Marsh cashed his bet and settled in the middle of the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford remove his hair.

Marsh worked around eleven years for the broadcaster Sky Sports and was dismissed in 2005, when he remarked during a mission in perceived inappropriate type:

" Why is David Beckham not moving to Newcastle United? Because of what the Toon Army has done in Asia. "

This was to be understood as an allusion to the tsunami in 2004, but she was referring primarily to Beckham's alleged lack of intelligence and not to the victims of the earthquake. Many supporters of the mission regretted the dismissal decision by Sky Sports and considered them unfair. Marsh himself also stated that he was on the ground disagree, the right to dismiss him, but accept.

Marsh is currently co-presenter Adrian Durham in the show " The Game" of the radio station Talk Sport and spends his time equally between England and Tampa.

Achievements

• English League Cup Winners: 1967