The autobiography of the late Ron Jones (1934-2021), one of the all-time greats of Welsh athletics. He had an incredible sporting career, firstly as in international 100y/m sprinter and then as the first-ever chief executive of an English football league club. The son of a coal miner raised in Cwmaman, south Wales, he had an outstanding and lengthy athletics career, setting 28 Welsh sprint records winning 12 Welsh titles, and was Europe's number one sprinter and a world record holder in 1963. He competed in a record four Commonwealth Games and was captain of the British athletics team at the Mexico Olympic games in 1968. Ron gives an account of his travels worldwide as an athlete and how he trained for top-class competitions while holding down a full-time job. He talks about his rivalries and friendships on the track, and particularly his relationship with Lillian Board (1948-70),the golden girl of British athletics who died so tragically young. He was a regular at the New Year's Eve Nos Galan Road Races in Mountain Ash, was director of SportsAid Cymru Wales, was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2013, and in 2018 he opened the Ron Jones Athletics Stadium in Aberdare. His second sporting career in football was just as glittering as his running. First as a coach and then chief executive of Queens Park Rangers FC (1976-80), he became friends with international football players as well as actors and musicians. He gives a behind-the-scenes account of events while he was the managing director of Cardiff City FC (1980-88).
