Bobby Moore the Greatest Britian Ever.

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Brendan Thorne

Bobby Moore the Greatest Briton Ever

        Bobby Moore was the greatest Briton ever, not just a sportsman but a leader, a gentleman and someone who never gave up. He captained us to our greatest ever sporting victory, leading out a team with some of the greatest sportsmen that this country has ever produced such as Charlton, Banks and Hurst.

        I believe that Moore was one of the greatest ever leaders that this country has ever turned out. Not the winner of a bloody war, but he led out his men in to different battles to that of Churchill or Loyd George. He was on the front line preventing goals from going in himself, not commanding troops from an office in London. He was leading his nation at the age of only twenty-one showing a great amount of maturity at a very young age. Not only a captain of his club Moore led out both West Ham United and Fulham F.C. two of the leading clubs of that time.

        There cannot have been a more loyal footballer than Moore. He played nearly six hundred and fifty games for West Ham and is regarded by all of the fans as their greatest ever player. He moved on to Fulham later in his career and showed them just as much loyalty playing one hundred and fifty games for them. But probably one of his greatest exhibitions of loyalty was shown to his fellow England footballers when in the world cup of 1970 in Mexico he showed great strength of character when he was falsely accused of stealing a bracelet from a Mexican jeweller. Moore was put under house arrest but he fought back to captain the England team in the world cup in which they did very well in only losing to the legendary Brazil team. Moore could have just given up and let his teammates down but he didn’t showing great loyalty to them through the whole thing.

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        Genius, Bobby Moore was a footballing genius. Probably the greatest ever defender the world has ever known. He was well known for his tackling ability his most famous tackle was probably in the 1970 World cup when England faced Brazil. This tackle was  dubbed the ‘pickpocket’, Moore was facing up to the famous Brazilian Jairzhino he had jockeyed him from the half way line all the way to the English penalty area. Moore suddenly darted out his right leg and whipped the ball away from the skilful Brazilian, remaining on his feet he controlled the ball and set up an ...

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