Ron Tindall - Telegraph In 1961 Greaves moved to AC Milan, and that October Chelsea's new manager, Tommy Docherty, sold Tindall to West Ham. Chelsea were relegated from the First Division at the end of that season. Within a year Tindall was on the move again, this time to Reading, where he scored 12 goals in 36 games before being transferred in September 1964 to Portsmouth. The purpose of signing him at Fratton Park was to replace Portsmouth's prolific goalscorer Ron Saunders, who had gone to Watford. But at this point Tindall's touch appeared to desert him, as he failed to score in his first 15 games. It was decided to move him to fullback, and he finished his career as a defender as well as club captain. He played 162 League games for Portsmouth, scoring on seven occasions. In March 1970 he was appointed the club's manager, and in spring 1973 general manager. Tindall left Portsmouth in 1975, and two years later emigrated to Western Australia, where he had been offered the post of the state's director of football coaching. He made a great success of the role, and in 2008 was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to sport. Tindall's contracts with his football clubs had allowed him to play cricket rather than football where the seasons overlapped, and he was on Surrey's books from 1956 to 1966. During the Fifties, Surrey were County Champions for seven consecutive seasons, and the side included some of the great cricketers of the era: Peter May, Jim Laker, Tony Lock, Alec and Eric Bedser. Tindall - a middle-order batsman and off-break bowler - was awarded his county cap in 1962. In first-class matches for Surrey he scored 5,446 runs at an average of 24.86; he hit two centuries (with a highest score of 109 not out) and 28 fifties, and in 1963 recorded more than 1,000 runs for the season. With the ball, he took 150 wickets at 32.38; his most successful season was 1962, after the retirement of the off-spinners Laker and Eric Bedser, when he took 66 wickets at 23.92 apiece. West Australia remained Tindall's home for the rest of his life. He is survived by his wife, Anne, and by their son and two daughters. Ron Tindall, born September 23 1935, died September 9 2012