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Also known as Ronald Franklin "Ron" Atkinson

English footballer, manager and commentator (born 1939)

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  • Aston Villa Greatest Games
  • A Different Ball Game

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Acting · Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK

English former football player and manager.

Known for

  • Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story — Self2021
  • The United Way — Self2021
  • When Football Changed Forever - The Story of the 1991/1992 Football Division One Season — Self2016
  • First Among Equals: The Laurie Cunningham Story — Self2013
  • Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side — Self2011
  • Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2008 — Self2008
  • What Ron Said2004
  • Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002 — Self (Manager 1981-86)2002
  • Celebrity Big Brother — Self2001
  • Big Ron Bites Back1998

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1939

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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 - althou

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1956
BSA Tools
1999
Nottingham Forest
Full name
Ronald Frederick Atkinson
Date of birth
( 1939-03-18 ) 18 March 1939 (age 87)
Place of birth
Liverpool , England
Position
Wing half
1956 1959
Aston Villa
Years
Team
1959 1971
Oxford United
1971 1974
Kettering Town
1974 1978
Cambridge United
1978 1981
West Bromwich Albion
1981 1986
Manchester United
1987 1988
West Bromwich Albion
1988 1989
Atlético Madrid
1989 1991
Sheffield Wednesday
1991 1994
Aston Villa
1995 1996
Coventry City

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Ronald Frederick Atkinson (born 18 March 1939) is an English former football player and manager. Nicknamed "Big Ron", he was regarded as one of Britain's best-known football pundits in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Nicknamed "The Tank" during his playing career, he represented Oxford United for twelve years, and still holds the club record for appearances. As a manager, he won the FA Cup with Manchester United in 1983 and 1985 and the Football League Cup with Sheffield Wednesday in 1991 and Aston Villa in 1994.

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