The Booby Moore Story - BBC 4 last night

[harold robbins]

Did anyone else watch this last night?. Must say it was one of the most moving documentaries I`ve seen for a long while. Have to confess that I had tears in my eyes more than once - of sadness at the tragedy of losing such a genuinely nice fella at such a relatively young age and tears of anger at the total injustice of the way the he was treated by the football world after retirement. No one really wanted to know him and apart from a go at management which was doomed to fail (Southend , need I say more) he sort of drifted into obscurity. A waste of a talent which the game could have benefitted from. The failure of succesive governmnents to knight him is nothing short of scandalous.

 

[The Large One]

I watched that - it was excellent.

There was a fair bit of melancholy, regret and sadness in many of the people they interviewed (both the Charltons, Mike Summerbee, Harry Redknapp, both his wives, his children and so on). And the way he was treated by the authorities after his career finished was dreadful.

It was only after he died that the rest of the World Cup winning squad got their gongs - a kind of embarrassed prize from the top brass. There is still no reason why he could not have got his knighthood posthumously, but then he was no toadying civil servant...

An absolute Legend in a world and a time where that phrase is far too much over-used and abused.

 

[jevs]

RIP Bobby

 

[Storer68]

but he was a shit manager,

And at the time he was regarded as symptomatic of all that had gone wrong with Englsh football ( a once beatuiful and elegant thing which had grown old and stale by the early 1970s but no-one dared tell the players because of their exalted status. And he got tarred with Alf ramsey having failed to qualify for the World Cup in 74

 

[Jam The Man]

Funny thing was though, he was as much of a lad as Greavsie was... the press never picked up on it though

 

[blueandwhitearmy]

Never saw the documentary but I've got a video called "The Bobby Moore Story" so it may have been that, what a player and bloke he was.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Totally agree,it was very moving.Such a shame such decent people like him go before their time.

 

[El Presidente]

It's outrageous that he only got an OBE and cheque book wielding whingers like Ferguson are knighted.

From captaining England to World Cup victory to being the football editor of the Daily Spurt was an outrageous fall from the top. The FA are a bunch of twats for the way he (and Sir Alf) were treated in their post football careers.

It was a moving story and makes the fact that toe rags like Bowyer are earning £2million a year an obscenity.

 

[BensGrandad]

His down fall was his pub chain Mooro's.

 

[Ratso2005]

Oh, I thought this thread was about the documentary on Booby Moore, the 70's British softcore prawn actress.

 

[Percy Tantrums]

Oh, I thought this thread was about the documentary on Booby Moore, the 70's British softcore prawn actress.

I wonder what a hardcore 'prawn' actress would be like. Makes the mind boggle.