RIP Bobby Robson, England, Newcastle and Ipswich manager
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Sad, sad news 
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Very sad news - always came across as a really decent bloke. Football could do with a few more like him.
- always came across as a really decent bloke. Football could do with a few more like him.
deadringer
meat pie sausage roll
a giant of the game who will be sadly missed
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
RIP, Sir Bobby.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Just saw this, sad news indeed . Brilliant contribution to the game. G'night fella.
. Brilliant contribution to the game. G'night fella.ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
A genuinely nice bloke so far as I can see. Somebody you could imagine working really hard for during the day and then enjoying a few beers and a chinwag with in the evening.
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
Its fitting that they had that tribute match for him just in time.
Mad Badger
www.muckfm.com
RIP Bobby.
A true football legend, a gentleman, and my football hero.
A true football legend, a gentleman, and my football hero.
iROBOT
CURRENTLY RE-BOOTING
They mentioned that there were 30,000 + at the match whilst the league game a few days later attracted about 20,000. Shows you how much he was regarded by ordinary folk.
not-bono-ever
meh
responsible for some of the best nights of my life
cheers Bobby
cheers Bobby
he boned you?
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Unnecesary.
I suppose my fondest association with him has to be Euro 96 when England were just so close. It was the month when football really went mainstream and women were talking at the checkouts about injury time and penalties and how it all worked.
I don't remember big screens in pubs then but we all gathered around different mates places anyway.
He had some difficult choices to make that tournament, especially before the Germany game. Thanks for all that, Bob.
What are you on about? Terry Venables was boss in Euro 96?
Bobby was Italia 1990 and Mexico 1986. Can't remember where the Euro's were held but we were shit and the press got nasty with Bobby.
Bobby told them to fuck themselves in a polite way.
These journalists will be gushing tomorrow - fucking knobs.
not-bono-ever
meh
marksims68
Have guitar will travel
My hero.
Took Ipswich Town from mediocrity to European greatness, he is a god here in Suffolk and the whole place is in mourning.
Scarves and flags are being laid at his statue and a book of rememberance has been placed at Portman Road, I shall be there this evening for the friendly and then a few of us will gather at this statue for a while.
I am in pieces, crying as I write this.
Took Ipswich Town from mediocrity to European greatness, he is a god here in Suffolk and the whole place is in mourning.
Scarves and flags are being laid at his statue and a book of rememberance has been placed at Portman Road, I shall be there this evening for the friendly and then a few of us will gather at this statue for a while.
I am in pieces, crying as I write this.
tom_craggs
Well-Known Member
Sad loss, thanks for some great memories.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
tom_craggs
Well-Known Member
Nice tribute from Alex Ferguson, I am sure there will be plenty more;
"I was never too big or proud to ask him for advice which he gave freely and unconditionally. And I'm sure I am speaking for a lot of people when I say that.
"In my 23 years working in England there is not a person I would put an inch above Bobby Robson. I mourn the passing of a great friend; a wonderful individual; a tremendous football man and somebody with passion and knowledge of the game that was unsurpassed.
"His character was hewn out of the coal face; developed by the Durham County mining background that he came from.
"His parents instilled in him the discipline and standards which forged the character of a genuinely colossal human being. He added his own qualities to that which then he passed on to his sons.
"The strength and courage he showed over the past couple of years when battling against his fifth bout of cancer was indescribable. Always a smile; always a friendly word with never a mention of his own problems.
"The world, not just the football world, will miss him. Let's hope it won't be long before another like him turns up because we could never get enough of them."
"I was never too big or proud to ask him for advice which he gave freely and unconditionally. And I'm sure I am speaking for a lot of people when I say that.
"In my 23 years working in England there is not a person I would put an inch above Bobby Robson. I mourn the passing of a great friend; a wonderful individual; a tremendous football man and somebody with passion and knowledge of the game that was unsurpassed.
"His character was hewn out of the coal face; developed by the Durham County mining background that he came from.
"His parents instilled in him the discipline and standards which forged the character of a genuinely colossal human being. He added his own qualities to that which then he passed on to his sons.
"The strength and courage he showed over the past couple of years when battling against his fifth bout of cancer was indescribable. Always a smile; always a friendly word with never a mention of his own problems.
"The world, not just the football world, will miss him. Let's hope it won't be long before another like him turns up because we could never get enough of them."
internetstalker
Get naked!
My step daughter didn't know who sir Bob was.
So I explained how he got us the 4th in the world cup in 1990
'I was born in 92' she said
I feel old!
So I explained how he got us the 4th in the world cup in 1990
'I was born in 92' she said
I feel old!
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
Well said, Sir Alex.
