Ron Tindall

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Ron Tindall
Personal information
Full name Ronald Albert Ernest Tindall
Date of birth (1935-09-23)23 September 1935
Place of birth Streatham, London, England
Date of death 9 September 2012(2012-09-09) (aged 76)
Place of death Perth, Australia
Position(s)
Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1952 Camberley 2 (1)
1953–1961 Chelsea 160 (67)
1961 West Ham United 13 (3)
1962–1963 Reading 36 (12)
1964–1969 Portsmouth 162 (7)
Managerial career
1970–1973 Portsmouth
1974 Portsmouth (caretaker)
1977–1987 Western Australia (director of coaching)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ronald Albert Ernest Tindall

OAM (23 September 1935 – 9 September 2012) was an English footballer who played as a striker. He was also an accomplished cricketer, playing for Surrey.[1]

Football career

Tindall played youth football for Camberley Wanderers when the club formed in 1950. He began his senior career when he joined

1960–61
season, they scored 59 goals between them (16 for Tindall, 43 for Greaves), a club record which still stands.

By the end of 1961, both Greaves and manager

all-time goalscorers
list.

Tindall's time at West Ham was brief, and he soon moved on to play for Reading, where he scored 12 goals in 36 league games before moving to Portsmouth in 1964. Tindall played out the remainder of his career at Portsmouth, making 162 league appearances before retiring in 1969. He was appointed manager of Portsmouth in 1970, but was hampered by the club's financial problems and had left the job by 1973. He was caretaker manager of Portsmouth for two games in 1974 following John Mortimore's departure.

Cricket career

Upon signing for Chelsea, Tindall negotiated a special arrangement with the club, whereby he was allowed to miss the first and last months of the football season to play cricket for Surrey. Tindall was an all-rounder, a right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His first-class career with Surrey lasted from 1956 to 1966, though he only played in three matches prior to 1960. He was awarded his county cap in 1962.

He scored 5446 runs in first-class matches at an average of 24.86, including two centuries and with a highest score of 109 not out. He reached one thousand runs in a season for the only time in 1963. He took 150 wickets at 32.38, with best figures in an innings of 5–41. Easily his most successful season with the ball was 1962, when he got his chance after the retirements of the Surrey off-spinners

Gillette Cup
. In those matches he scored 218 runs at 24.22, with a top score of 73. He bowled a total of only 22 overs in the ten matches, taking only two wickets and conceding 118 runs.

Later life and death

He immigrated to Western Australia in 1977 to take the job of director of the state's football coaching. He lived there for the remainder of his life. In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to sport. He died in September 2012, just before his 77th birthday.[2]

References

  1. ^ "RON TINDALL 1935–2012 | News Article". Chelsea FC. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Ron Tindall". Daily Telegraph. 12 September 2012. p. 37.

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