Mrs daughter about to start working behind the bar..
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Mrs daughter about to start working behind the bar..
Yes and the Custom House before that - Ronnie was a top bloke who always kept a good pint. Does anyone know which ex footballer and member of Southampton’s FA Cup winning team in 1976 took over as a relief landlord at the Romilly when Ronnie went on holiday one year?
On one of our mini-breaks, in the Cotswolds, me and the Mrs had a quality night (and later), drinking with the landlord of a pub in Moreton-in- Marsh.
He played in that team, but can’t remember his name, wonder if it’s the same fella.
Part of me, seems to remember him as a short, stocky, midfielder/winger (but this was in my Stella drinking days ) god knows what time we got out of there, it was pointless going to bed
Well done to your Mrs, Jim Steele it was. I seem to remember him saying he'd worked a lot in the west country when we had a chat with him in the Romilly (this would have been about twenty years ago I'd guess) - he was a centreback, hard bastard as I remember it.
His Wikipedia entry mentions the pub in Moreton In Marsh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steele_(footballer)
I never knew that he was landlord of the Custom House?
I knew he was landlord of the pub opposite the old ice-rink (Golden Cross?).
As kids in Llandaff North, we would knock on the door of his modest semi-detached and ask him for his autograph. He was always happy to oblige, in fairness.
Apologies, my memory of Cardiff pubs has gone to pot in the years since I stopped drinking - Ronnie was the landlord of the Golden Cross, not the Custom House.
As a kid, Peter Rodrigues lived a few hundred yards from the Romilly, but it's not him - this bloke had no connection with Cardiff apart from playing here for Southampton a few times..
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