Keefaz

No. Ugly Mackems told us Keegan had left days before it was confirmed. edit: Oh! and I said we'd be signing Owen weeks before we did Tbf, I predicted about five years ago that we'd sign Owen. fair enough, but I actually knew we'd put a bid in OK. Apart from that, though, I don't think anyone's ever been right about anything. Pretty shite, really.

No. Ugly Mackems told us Keegan had left days before it was confirmed. edit: Oh! and I said we'd be signing Owen weeks before we did Tbf, I predicted about six years ago that we'd sign Owen.

I think Thomo's still got it right. I'm backing him 110%.

LLLO is definitely telling the truth. You will all see.

I'm not that much of a glutton for punishment...

Aye, but it's quite a controversial signature on an NUFC messageboard. What do you expect?

True, like.

Just to make it as depressing as possible... http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1420/sbrrain.jpg

If he goes to Hull, he's an idiot, tbh.

“I remember when we did a signing session once and he was always on the end with thousands of items that people wanted signing. He was on the end with a ball and the guy said to him ‘You must have done hundreds of these’ and Bobby ended up signing it ‘Bobby Hundreds’. I thought that was brilliant."

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/1243/tributes.jpg Thought I'd collect up a few of the bits and bobs on the websites that have been knocking around while they're still up.

Basically reminded me a lot of Dyer. You could see the potential, but it will never be realised: through injury, basic lack of football nous, and attitude.

Since when were they not fans?

Babatunde?

He has big, muscley legs.

Me too! Talking about the Oak round the doors. "Not plywood......Oak!!!" Ledge! I know it's daft as a brush, but really it shows what people mean when they say he was a man of standards. He set very high standards for himself and expected them same from everyone else he worked with. When he came to Newcastle he ensured that everything met his standards from the table in the manager's office to the grass on the pitch, etc. etc.

Martin O'Neil called his way of misnaming people 'legendary'. Imagine what it must've been like at PSV or Barca.

Anyone?

I'm sure they said there's a tribute on ITV tonight, but can't find it anywhere. Anyone?

Can't turn on the telly at the mo', it's full of people on the brink of tears.

To be fair to Dyer, he seems to have matured a fair bit now.

Like I said to Haz, Dyer has apologised for his behaviour. Whether you think it's genuine or not is up to you. "When I think about it, I feel like I betrayed Bobby. That's the worst thing about it," Dyer told the Independent. He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much." "When I think about how I let Bobby down, it's the biggest disappointment of my career I'd spent the previous season playing out of position - filling in wherever there was a gap, it always seemed it was me who did everyone a favour," added Dyer. "Bobby knew I was frustrated but I should have just played that game. He stuck by me through everything and he even tried to defend me after the Boro game. He told the press I had a tight hamstring, he tried to shield me and when I think about that, how I let him down, it's the biggest disappointment of of my career. "I'll have to live with that feeling for the rest of my life."

Llambias: Always spoke his mind and tried to steer Mike and I in the right direction. Emphasis his.

Think this is great from Sir Alex: "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 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 agree with the suggestion of naming the academy after him.