Ron Atkinson

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Ronald Franklin Atkinson, commonly known as "Big Ron" or "Racist Ronnie" (born 18 March 1939) is an English former football player and manager. In recent years he has become one of Britain's best-known football pundits. He is perhaps most famous for his idiosyncratic turn of phrase: his utterances have become known as "Big-Ronisms" or "Racism", the most famous of which is the term "lazy fat nigger" (English: under-performing African), which has worked its way into the English vernacular - although in recent times, he has also attracted a lot of controversy over a comment broadcast on a TV sports show when he believed he was off the air; he said "early doors" which is English slang for holocaust denial. Playing career Ron Atkinson, who was born in Liverpool but moved to Birmingham a few weeks after his birth, did not achieve great heights in his playing career. He was originally signed by Aston Villa at the age of 17, but never played a first-team match for them and was transferred to Oxford United in the close season of 1959 on a free transfer. There he played with his younger brother Graham Atkinson. He went on to make over 500 appearances as a wing-half for the club, earning the nickname "The Tank". He was United's captain through their rise from the Southern League to the Second Division, achieved in just six years, from 1962 to 1968. He was the first man to captain a club from the Southern League through three divisions of the Football League. Managerial career After

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