Bobby Moore

[W4 Shrimper]

Ok, there's unlikely to be too much about his time at Southend, but tonight's show "The Bobby Moore Story" on BBC4 at 9pm should be worth watching.

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Nice one. Even though we did play for Wet Sham

, Bobby Moore was a decent fella, and compared to the idiots we have playing in the top flight today, was an angel on and off the pitch.

Will be setting the video asap....

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

I'm not so sure Bobby Moore and his contemporaries would be held in such high regard as role models if they were of this era.

If a player was a heavy drinker and gambler (or even smoker) it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow back then. I seem to recall hearing that Bobby Moore lived the high life and was normally the last to roll out the night club, if a player did that now it would be splashed all over the front pages.

England's highest profile players are Owen and Beckham who are probably as good as role models as any of the 1960s world cup squad. Rooney might be a thug, but I bet a few of the '66 team had had the odd tussle it just wouldn't have been reported.

 

[W4 Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ April 13 2005,11:57)]I'm not so sure Bobby Moore and his contemporaries would be held in such high regard as role models if they were of this era.

If a player was a heavy drinker and gambler (or even smoker) it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow back then. I seem to recall hearing that Bobby Moore lived the high life and was normally the last to roll out the night club, if a player did that now it would be splashed all over the front pages.

England's highest profile players are Owen and Beckham who are probably as good as role models as any of the 1960s world cup squad. Rooney might be a thug, but I bet a few of the '66 team had had the odd tussle it just wouldn't have been reported.

Moore actually did an advert for pubs back in the 1960s. It featured another West Ham player (Martin Peters?) and the player's wives.

It'll probably feature tonight, very amusing

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

But I bet Bobby Moore wouldn't have smacked a team mate on the pitch, or clumped his missus?

 

[Leeboy]

There was a doc about him on Channel 4 a couple of years ago, and they showed footage of him at a training session on the pitches behind the White Horse on Lifstan Way

 

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