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Ernest Moss (19 October 1949 – 11 July 2021) was an English
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, most associated with his home town club, Chesterfield, where in three separate spells he made 539 appearances, scoring a club record 192 goals. He was later voted
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and cult hero number one by the club's supporters. His total of 749 league appearances puts him in the top 25 all-time list for Football League appearances. With Chesterfield he won the Fourth Division title in 1969–70 and 1984–85. He was also promoted out of the fourth tier with
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in 1982–83 and with
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in 1983–84. He also won the Third Division title with
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in 1976–77 and finished second in the
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with
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in 1988–89. In addition to these achievements, he was also voted Port Vale F.C. Player of the Year in
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. Other Football League clubs he played for include
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, Lincoln City,
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,
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, and
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. He also turned out for
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and Shepshed Charterhouse. He later embarked on a 15-year career as a
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at the non-League level of the English football pyramid, taking charge at
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, Leek Town, Matlock Town,
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, and
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. He led Gainsborough to a
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and Peter Swales Shield double in 1997, as well as a further Challenge Cup final appearance in 1998. He also won promotion out of the
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with Matlock Town in 2003–04. He also worked as Peter Morris's assistant at
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and
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.


Playing career


Chesterfield

Moss worked as a clerk in the Derbyshire County Council education offices in Matlock at the time of his joining his hometown club Chesterfield, in April 1967, from the local Tube Works side. He made his debut at Bradford Park Avenue on 26 October 1968, signing professional forms a few days later before going on to make 16 further appearances in the season. The club were at a low ebb, and finished 1968–69 just two points above the re-election zone in the Fourth Division. The "Spireites" were promoted as champions in 1969–70, winning 19 of their 23 league games at
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. Moss was a major factor in the upturn in form, scoring twenty goals in the campaign, including four past Newport County. In 1970–71 he hit double figures by October. He was then sidelined for months after rupturing his ligaments at
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. Chesterfield were on the up, though, and finished the season fifth in the Third Division, two points off fallen giants
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. Chesterfield dropped back down to 13th in 1971–72, and finished just two points above the
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zone in
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. They again finished fifth in 1973–74, ending up five points shy of promotion. The club dropped back into the lower half of the table in 1974–75. After 95 goals in 271 league games, he was sold to
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,
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Joe Shaw having found a replacement in
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.


Peterborough United and Mansfield Town

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's "Posh" finished tenth in the Third Division in 1975–76, and Moss then spent the latter half of the 1976–77 season with
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winning
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, who under Peter Morris's stewardship topped the Third Division table on 64 points. After playing for the "Stags" in their first ever season in the
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, he returned to the third tier with Chesterfield in January 1979, now managed by Arthur Cox.


Return to Chesterfield

He helped the club to avoid relegation by just four points in 1978–79. The 1979–80 and 1980–81 seasons saw Chesterfield come close to promotion, missing out by one point and three points respectively. He helped the club to win the 1981
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. However, he fell out with the club over a £5 pay rise, and in June 1981, he chose to move on to
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.


Port Vale

The Fourth Division club splashed out £12,000 for his services and were to find the sum a good investment. In his debut season he became the club's top scorer with 17 goals, and picked up the
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at the end of the campaign. Vale won promotion from the fourth tier in 1982–83, though Moss had been sold to Colin Murphy's Lincoln City for £1,500 in March 1983, despite still being a regular in the
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. Despite his tally of 11 goals in 33 games in 1982–83, manager John McGrath claimed that "age caught up with him". McGrath nicknamed Moss and strike partner Bob Newton as the "
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" due to their dominance of opposition defenders. McGrath had already signed his replacement in Jim Steel and was keen to offload Moss.


Later career

His time at
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was brief, and he finished the 1983–84 season with
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, as Rovers were promoted from the Fourth Division as runners-up under the management of
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. In 1984, Moss signed with Chesterfield for a third time, now under the leadership of John Duncan. He won promotion from the fourth tier for the fourth time, and Chesterfield came up as champions in his first season back at Saltergate. The 1985–86 season was one of consolidation for Chesterfield, and his goals helped greatly. The Saltergate faithful were therefore taken by surprise when he was sold to Fourth Division
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in December 1986, along with Phil Brown, for a combined fee of £10,000. County finished in mid-table, and Moss left at the end of the 1986–87 campaign. He was with
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champions
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for their first season in the Football League under
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. He also had a short spell with strugglers
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, scoring twice in ten games for Eddie Gray's side, before his career in the
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came to an end. Refusing to hang up his boots, he went on to play for
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of the
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. He hit 17 goals in 1988–89, making him the club's top-scorer at 40. His goals helped Kettering to finish the season as runners-up, eight points behind Maidstone United. He later played for
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and Shepshed Charterhouse before he retired in his second spell with Kettering in 1992. At the age of 42 and also working as an assistant manager, he became the club's oldest scorer in the Conference.


Style of play

When Moss was starting his career, Chesterfield manager Jimmy McGuigan described him as:
"A big, willing bloke, a charming fellow who had raw potential. His balance was nil, therefore his ball control was nil. He knew where the goal lay but he couldn't often hit it."
McGuigan worked hard to rectify this aspect of Moss' game, and his hard work paid off; the youngster soon formed a deadly partnership with
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. McGuigan's training improved his overall abilities, though his heading skills had always been present. Moss always posed an aerial threat and scored many of his goals by towering over
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and directing the ball into the net. A big man, he was closer to a "gentle giant" than a dirty player. Football historian Jeff Kent described him as a "wholehearted striker". Moss claimed that
"For me competing was all about the pride and dignity of honest endeavour, and winning wasn't all about riches and rewards, it was about preserving one's sporting integrity, it was about honour."
None of his goals came from
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s. Moss missed the only penalty he ever took, in his 1986
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against
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.


Management career

Also a well-travelled
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manager, he spent 1992 to 1994 as assistant manager to Peter Morris at
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. The "Pilgrims" were relegated out of the
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in 1992–93, and spent 1993–94 in the
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. He was appointed manager of
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in 1995. He led Trinity to a fifth-place finish in the Northern Premier League in 1995–96, three points behind champions
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. His team finished tenth in 1996–97 but did a cup double, beating Boston United in the final of the
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, and lifting the Peter Swales Shield after victory over league champions Leek Town. Trinity finished fifth again in 1997–98 and lost out to
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in the final of the Challenge Cup. In June 1998, he took charge at Conference club Leek Town. However, he was dismissed the following year after Leek were relegated, finishing nine points below the safety of
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. He was back in charge at Gainsborough by November 1999, replacing
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. He led the club to another tenth-place finish in 1999–2000. In 2000, he was appointed assistant manager of
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under Peter Morris, though the pair were sacked in February 2001, with the club bottom of the Conference. He took the reins at
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club
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in 2001 and took the club to a 14th-place finish in 2001–02. He took the "Gladiators" to eighth place in 2002–03, finishing three points off the play-offs. Promotion was achieved in 2003–04, as a second-place finish was enough to take the club in the Premier Division. He was appointed manager at
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in 2004 but lost his job after just three months. He returned to the Northern Premier League First Division in January 2005, when he was named manager of
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. Belper finished 17th in 2004–05, but moved up to ninth in 2005–06, eight points off the play-offs. The "Nailers" dropped down to 19th in 2006–07, and Moss was sacked. Moss went on to
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youngsters at Chesterfield's community scheme and performed
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ing missions.


Personal life

He married his wife Jenny, a nurse, in 1971. They had two daughters; Nikki, born in December 1974, and Sarah, in May 1977. Moss established the ''Moss & Miller'' sports shop with former England cricketer
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. He was diagnosed with
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in October 2014. On 11 January 2015, Chesterfield declared their home match with
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as "Ernie Moss Day", where money was raised for
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charities. On 25 April 2017, a road adjacent to the
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was named Ernie Moss Way in his honour. A second "Ernie Moss Day" was celebrated when Port Vale played at Chesterfield on 19 August 2017. At this match, a mosaic portrait of Moss by artist Rob Lally was unveiled in the Proact Stadium foyer. He contracted
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during the
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and had beaten the disease by the end of May 2020. Moss died on 11 July 2021, aged 71.


Career statistics


Honours


References


External links


List of goals for Chesterfield
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