The Manchester United Tough Guy

Remi Moses

Manchester born Remi Moses star­ted as an appren­tice with West Brom­wich where he would become part of the club´s revival under Ron Atkin­son. Although Albion didn’t lift any sil­ver­ware dur­ing his regime, they cer­tainly played some pos­it­ive foot­ball and fea­tured play­ers such as Peter Barnes, Laurie Cun­ning­ham and Bryan Robson.

When Ron Atkin­son finally left West Brom­wich Albion for Manchester United dur­ing the sum­mer of 1981, he soon recruited Bryan Rob­son and Remi Moses from his pre­vi­ous employers. After hav­ing played 63 league games for West Brom­wich between 1978 and 1981, he was trans­ferred to Manchester United for £500,000 at the start of the 1982–83 sea­son. A defens­ive minded mid­field player, he would make his first league appear­ance for his new club com­ing on as a sub­sti­tute in a nar­row 1–0 vic­tory against newly pro­moted Swansea City at Old Traf­ford in Septem­ber 1981. The Man­cunian emerged as one the key play­ers at Manchester United dur­ing the mid-nineteen-eighties and the pop­u­lar per­former made nearly 200 appear­ances dur­ing seven mem­or­able years at the club. Des­pite his tough guy image, Moses was an excep­tional passer of the ball and the local born player had a illus­tri­ous career with Manchester United before he was tra­gic­ally forced out of the game due to a recur­ring ankle injury in 1988. Being a socially con­scious per­son, Remi Moses now works as a soc­cer coach for the Unity in the Com­munity Project.

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