Send a birthday wish to Ron Davies
Described in his time by no less than Sir Matt Busby as the best centre forward in Europe, Ron Davies celebrates his 69th birthday today in his adopted home of America.
Its been well documented on Saints websites that Ron has not been in the best of health and luckily enough, rgular on this site Tim Mumford or Tijuana Tim as he is better known has worked tirelesly for Ron ove rthe past few years to help make life a little easier for him, when others have longlost interest given up the cause.
For those younger readers Ron was a product of the 1960's when footballers where treated as little better than cattle by football clubs who decided when they would be bought and sold, whilst Saints afforded Ron a good living, it has to be said that he could possibly have earned a lot more had he had the freedom to move clubs that players enjoyed today, but he stayed put and left Saints in April 1973 having played 277(4) games for Saints in seven seasons at the Dell scoring an amazing 153 goals, all in either the top flight or a major cup compitition including Europe.
How many strikers can say they have scored at Old Trafford let alone scored four in one game as Ron did back in August 1969 when Ron netted all the goals in a 4-1 win.
Ron leads a hard life over in the States as he reaches the golden age when he should be a lot more comfortable, whilst there are those who will perhaps say that as a footballer he enjoyed a lot more wealth than most, even back in the 60's, the fact is Ron Davies was a legend to Saints supporters and that being the case we should all do a little bit to bring a smile to his face.
If you leave a message in the comments section below Tim will read them out to him later today and hopefully it will remind Ron of the good times at the Dell and the high esteem he is held by suporters of a certain age