Rodney Marsh

Rodney Marsh
Personal information
Full name Rodney William Marsh
Date of birth (1944-10-11) 11 October 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth Hatfield, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1959–1960 West Ham United
1960–1962 Fulham
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1966 Fulham 63 (22)
1966–1972 Queens Park Rangers 211 (106)
1972–1976 Manchester City 118 (36)
1975 Cork Hibernians 3 (1)
1976–1979 Tampa Bay Rowdies 94 (48)
1976–1977Fulham (loan) 16 (5)
1986–1987 Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor)
Total 505 (218)
International career
1968 England U23 3 (4)
1971–1973 England 9 (1)
Managerial career
1980 New York United
1980–1983 Carolina Lightnin'
1984–1986 Tampa Bay Rowdies
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rodney William Marsh (born 11 October 1944) is an English former footballer and football coach; he later worked as a broadcaster. A forward, he won nine caps for England between 1971 and 1973, scoring one international goal.

Brought up in the East End of London, he played youth football for West Ham United before he made his professional debut with Fulham in March 1963. He scored 22 goals in 63 First Division games before falling out with the management and taking a £15,000 transfer to Queens Park Rangers in March 1966. He helped the club to the 1967 League Cup and to consecutive promotions through the Third Division and Second Division. In March 1972 he was sold to Manchester City for £200,000. He featured in the 1974 League Cup final defeat but his time in Manchester was largely disappointing and he left the UK the following year to play for American club Tampa Bay Rowdies.

He had a successful career with the Rowdies and went on to coach the club from 1984 to 1986 after previously having brief spells coaching New York United and the Carolina Lightnin'. In the 1990s he began work as a broadcaster on Sky Sports, before he was sacked in January 2005. Since that time he has appeared on numerous reality television shows, and helped to run an American-based property development company with his son. In 2015, Marsh started co-hosting a radio show about football on SiriusXM, titled Grumpy Pundits. His co-host is Irish broadcaster Tommy Smyth.

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