Ron Tindall

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Ron Tindall
Personal information
Full name	Ron Tindall
Date of birth	23 September 1935
Place of birth	Streatham, London, England
Position	Striker
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1953-1961 1961 1962-63 1964-69	Chelsea West Ham United Reading Portsmouth	160 (67) 13 (3) 36 (12) 162 (7)
Teams managed
1970-73 1974	Portsmouth Portsmouth (caretaker)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ronald "Ron" Tindall (23 September 1935) is a retired English footballer who played as a striker.

Tindall began his professional football career with Chelsea, whom he joined in 1953 as one of the earliest products of Chelsea's new youth system. Two years later, he scored on his full debut for the club against West Bromwich Albion in the First Division. Within a year, Tindall had established himself in the Chelsea first team and, though the side's form was often erratic, he struck up a prolific strike partnership with the emerging Jimmy Greaves. In the 1960-61 season, they scored 59 goals between them (16 for Tindall, 43 for Greaves), a club record which still stands.

Tindall was also an accomplished cricketer, and often turned out for Surrey during the cricket season. By the end of 1961, both Greaves and manager Ted Drake had left Chelsea and Tommy Docherty was appointed in Drake's place; Tindall became surplus to requirements as Docherty concentrated on re-building the Chelsea side around the new generation of youngsters. He was sold to West Ham United in November 1961 in part exchange for Andy Malcolm. He ended his Chelsea career with 69 goals from 174 games, making him 17th in Chelsea's all-time goalscorers list.

Tindall's time at West Ham was brief, and he soon moved on to play for Reading, where he scored 12 goals in 36 league games before moving to Portsmouth in 1964. Tindall played out the remainder of his career at Portsmouth, making 162 league appearances before retiring in 1969. He was appointed manager of Portsmouth in 1970, but was hampered by the club's financial problems and had left the job by 1973. He was caretaker manager of Portsmouth for two games in 1974 following John Mortimore's departure.

Preceded by George Smith	Portsmouth manager 1970-1973	Succeeded by John Mortimore
Preceded by John Mortimore	Portsmouth caretaker manager 1974	Succeeded by Ian St John