Roddy Munro

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Roddy Munro

Personal information
Full name	Roderick Alexander Munro
Date of birth	(1920-07-27)27 July 1920
Place of birth	Inverness
Date of death	July 1976 (aged 55–56)
Position(s)	Full back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Rangers
1946–1953	Brentford	199	(0)
	Cambridge City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roderick Alexander "Roddy" Munro was a Scottish football full back who played for Rangers, Brentford and Cambridge City. He is best remembered for his seven years in the Football League with Brentford, making over 200 appearances.

Career

=== Rangers bought Roddy Munro from Clacknacuddon football club Inverness for £300, paid for a new stand, to this day called the Munro stand A full back, Munro began his career in Scotland as an amateur with Scottish Division One side Rangers, before the breakout of the Second World War in 1939 and the suspension of professional football brought a halt to his career.

Brentford

A year after the end of the Second World War in 1945, Munro joined Brentford as an amateur, on the recommendation of Tom Manley, with whom he had served in the Middle East during the war. He played the final five games of the 1945/46 Football League South season. Munro signed a professional contract in the summer of 1946 and with the resumption of league football, he made his debut in a 5-2 Division One defeat to Aston Villa on 28 September 1946. He made 38 appearances in his debut season, which ended with the Bees suffering relegation to Division Two. Munro was a regular fixture in the team until the end of the 1952/53 season, when he departed Griffin Park. He made 211 appearances during his time with the Bees.

Cambridge City

Munro saw out his career with a spell at Athenian League side Cambridge City.

Personal life

Munro grew up in Waterloo Place, Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. He met his wife Sheena, who came from Nairn, in Cairo while serving in the Second World War and they had two children, named Malcolm Alexander and Donald Cardno While with Brentford, Munro and his wife Sheena provided accommodation for Aultbea-native Hugh Urquhart, who failed to make the grade at the Bees and dropped into non-league football. The couple settled in Hauxton, Cambridgeshire in the 1950s and worked for Fisons. Munro died in 1976 and was survived by Sheena, who passed away in Skegness in February 2008.