Remembering Ronnie Moran: 'He just wanted to do all right'

You’ve booted a ball through the front-room window and now there’s an agonising wait to see how your parents react.

Now imagine it’s the seventies, it’s your dad’s birthday, and your dad is Ronnie Moran – otherwise known as ‘Sergeant Major’, or ‘Bad Cop’. A man feared by every member of the Liverpool squad at a time when it contained some of British football’s most formidable old-school hardmen.

“We’d won 5-0 on a Saturday, you’d come in on the Monday morning and Ronnie Moran would be shouting: ‘Who’d you think you are? We’ve got a game next week!’” former Reds captain Phil Thompson recalled in an LFCTV documentary broadcast back in 2014. “You got nothing for what you’d just done on a…