GM Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Donations can be made here: http://www.justgiving.com/thesirbobbyrobsonfoundation Sir Bobby launches cancer charity Former England manager Sir Bobby Robson is launching a charitable foundation to help in the fight against cancer. Sir Bobby, 75, who is battling the disease for the fifth time after first being diagnosed in 1991, aims to raise £500,000 for the new charity. The cash will fund the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trial and Research Centre, being built at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital. The centre will focus on early detection and treatment and clinical trials of new drugs. It will boast dedicated research facilities, including a 12-bed unit with treatment rooms, a laboratory and consulting suites. Last year doctors discovered the former Newcastle United manager, who lives in County Durham, had small cancerous nodules in his lungs. He has battled the disease on and off for the past 15 years, having undergone cancer surgery four times. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/7312151.stm Good man. Selflessness in the face of adversity. A true legend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Good on him, I'll ask wor lass if she knows anymore about it as he visisted her building not so long back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I wonder if Mr Silkman will donate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I wonder if Mr Silkman will donate? Was just going to post similar. Bobby just continues to be a great man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest toonlass Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Bobby is a true Gent and a top bloke.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 More details here: - Sir Bobby admits time is running out, but battles on for charity Mar 25 2008 by Jane Hall, The Journal As he fights cancer for the fifth time, Sir Bobby Robson explains to Jane Hall why he is dedicating to the next year to a major fundraising effort launched today to help other North East people beat the killer disease. THE voice is unmistakable. Even from a distance there can be no doubt as to whom it belongs. It’s the voice of a man who has successfully rallied football players to both match and cup winning form from Fulham to Ipswich Town, England to PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon to Porto and Barcelona to Newcastle, in a career that began nearly 60 years ago when he himself pulled on his first pair of leather boots and took to the field for home club Langley Park Juniors. Today that distinctive Durham accent will be put to an entirely different use to rouse to action not an 11-man football team but the entire North East. To sporting legend Sir Bobby Robson the impassioned plea he will deliver later this morning to a roomful of celebrity friends, medical experts, businessmen and journalists will outshine even the one he made to his Barcelona squad before they successfully lifted the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1997. Sir Bobby is calling on his fellow North Easterners to dig deep and raise money to equip a new cancer research centre being built at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. He hopes the region’s famed generosity will quickly help reach the target of £500,000 for a state-of-the-art laboratory, consulting rooms, beds, computers and other equipment for the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre due to open this October. But typically for a man who has given 110% all his life, he has no intention of resting on his laurels once he has hit the half million mark. He wants sufferers from this region to enjoy the best treatment and chance of survival possible. Ultimately he dreams of his newly launched Sir Bobby Robson Foundation funding a North East developed cancer cure – even though it would come too late to save his own life. Having successfully battled cancer four times, the 75-year-old was 12 months ago diagnosed with inoperable tumours to both lungs. A cocktail of chemotherapy and drugs is currently controlling this latest bout of the disease. But Sir Bobby candidly admits it is a matter of when rather than if. Now faced with his own mortality, he wants to leave behind more than memories of an inspired football career that saw him turn out as a player for Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and England, and bring back both the FA and Uefa cups to Ipswich during his time as manager with the East Anglian club. The knowledge that in the long-term cash raised in his name could spare future generations of North East cancer victims the pain and suffering he has had to endure five times in the past 15 fears, brings a crusading fire to his eyes. “I’m in my 76th year. I’ve had a fantastic sporting life, but I’ve had cancer five times. None of my four brothers has had cancer. I keep saying I’ve had their share. But I consider myself lucky. I may have had cancer five times but thanks to the wonderful treatment I have had through the NHS my life has been saved. “Now it’s time I paid them back, and I want to do this through the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, initially by raising in excess of £500,000 to equip the new cancer trials unit at the Freeman. We want the North East to have the best state-of-the-art unit not just in England, but in Europe. “We have some very clever people working here in the North East in what is a very difficult field, but I am hopeful that with time and money those people will find a cancer cure that will help save lives. At least a third of everybody in England – that’s 20 million people – will at some stage be affected by cancer. That’s one in every three. “Just think how fantastic it would be if we could find a cure for cancer here in the North East that would not only save the lives of North East people, but sufferers worldwide. I shall be remembered for what I achieved in football. But the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and the cancer trials unit is the legacy I want to leave to the people of the North East. If I can raise as much money as possible, then part of my life will have been used in a better way.” Sir Bobby looks weary, and with good reason. He has spent the last three hours in a foundation meeting at Newcastle’s Copthorne Hotel, and it has taken its toll. “I have days when I don’t feel very well, like today. “There isn’t much I can do about it other than to keep fighting. You have to be positive. I could spend my time moaning and complaining, but I’m not one of those people. If you are prepared to fight then I am a great believer you can overcome. I know I am going to die, but then we all die eventually. The time will come when I won’t win every battle, but my fighting spirit has seen me through this far.” He has also enjoyed an extraordinary run of good fortune – if such a thing can exist in this situation – as far as his various cancers are concerned. For Sir Bobby should have died long ago. In 1992 he overcame bowel cancer, the same disease that claimed the life of World Cup winner Bobby Moore. “Then three years later he was diagnosed with an extremely rare and deadly form of malignant melanoma after his wife, Elsie, forced him to see his doctor about an ongoing sinus problem. “They came back to tell me I had a melanoma in my nose,” Sir Bobby recalls. ”It’s very rare, only a 2% chance of getting it. I had no idea I had it. If Elsie hadn’t made me go to see the doctor I never would have known until it was too late. I was told I needed an operation yesterday and if nothing was done I would be dead by the end of the football season. Elsie saved my life.” In a complicated operation surgeons removed the tumour, leaving a hole in the roof of his mouth which he has to fill with a rubber plug. The melanoma may have been removed but its effects have come back to haunt Sir Bobby. Rogue cells found their way into his lungs and his brain. In May 2006 he had a tumour the size of a golf ball removed from his right lung after a routine X-ray of his ribs following a skiing accident picked up a shadow. Again, Sir Bobby had known nothing was wrong. Three months later Sir Bobby was again back in hospital after being taken ill at an Ipswich Town home game. “I developed a violent twitch on my face. I felt well and couldn’t understand what was happening. I turned to Elsie to say something and couldn’t speak. I thought, ‘My God, I’ve had a stroke.’ I nudged Elsie and she got me out of the ground. Within 10 minutes the twitching had stopped and I could talk again. I had X-rays and a head scan and 20 minutes later the doctor came back and said, ‘Can I have a private word? Unfortunately the scan isn’t normal. You have a tumour in your brain.’ “I said, ‘Do you know what you’re talking about? I’m at a football match, I’m enjoying it and now you’re telling me I have a brain tumour!” Back in Newcastle Sir Bobby was admitted to the General Hospital where a grape-sized growth was cut out. At the same time he suffered a haemorrhage of the brain, similar to a stroke. Paralysed down the left side, it was assumed Sir Bobby would never walk again. But he has got himself back on his feet, although he has been left partially paralysed. “I survived that, although no-one knows how I lived. Most people say goodbye and they bury them,” Sir Bobby adds with a laugh. ” Now regularly attending for scans, in February 2007 nodules were found in both his lungs. “Unfortunately, these are inoperable. I’m on chemotherapy to control their growth, and it seems to be working at the moment. Hopefully they will remain docile.” His treatment has brought him into contact with Dr Ruth Plummer, senior lecturer in medical oncology and an honorary consultant at Newcastle General and soon to be the new director of the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre. It is she who has set Sir Bobby off on his money raising mission. “She told me she needed to raise some money for a good cause. I said, ‘What is it?’ She said, ‘To kit out a cancer research centre we are moving to next October.’ Ruth explained the unit was already there, that the NHS was going to pay for its running, but that there wasn’t a penny to kit it out. “The task of raising the money had been left to Ruth and her colleague Professor Hilary Calvert. I was appalled. How could two people with responsible, full-time jobs find the time to raise that sort of money? Ruth asked me if I knew anyone who would be willing to contribute. “I had a chat with one or two people and out of that the foundation has been born. I’ve never tackled anything like this. I’ve taken England to Brazil, taken football teams to cup finals and won and fought cancer for 15 years, but I’ve never tried to raise money for anything like this. But I have had wonderful treatment here in the North East, and the people of the North have supported me throughout my life. I couldn’t not respond to Ruth’s request and I’m proud she had the guts to ask me for help. “I have the time now because I’m not 100% involved with professional football to do something gracious and commendable for other people and for the North East. I’m proud of that, and proud of the way I feel about that.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest michaelfoster Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 bobby such a legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 "Sir Bobby admits time is running out" Giant knot in my stomach now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 It just brings tears to my eyes reading that sentence and adds to my contempt for Shepherd and the wicked way he treated Sir Bobby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guyb Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 bobby such a legend it's an overused terms these days but Sir Bobby Robson deserves it more than most. I also agree with Billytray and would add in those p-taking villains Dyer and Bellamy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geordiecunny Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 How do we donate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrette Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 What a man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 It just brings tears to my eyes reading that sentence and adds to my contempt for Shepherd and the wicked way he treated Sir Bobby. not again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Cant really say much else that hasnt been said in the past about this great man. Lump in my throat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guyb Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 They need to raise £500k? If every pro at every north east club, including Darlo and Hartlepool, gave £1k from their monthly wage, you'd have it next month. You couldn't get a better gesture to a north east legend either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
9 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Iam not for having players forced into handing out there cash to whoever asks but You would think that with all the big players etc that have worked with Robson you could raise 500k within a few phone calls! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Bobby was on the national and regional news at lunchtime with details of this and I'd imagine he'll be on again this evening so please try and watch it. He looks extremely fragile and his speech is still very slurred following his stroke but the passion and determination in his eyes brought tears to my own. Other than my dad and my other half he is the greatest man on this earth in my opinion. We ALL need to make this happen for him whilst we can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Bobby was on the national and regional news at lunchtime with details of this and I'd imagine he'll be on again this evening so please try and watch it. He looks extremely fragile and his speech is still very slurred following his stroke but the passion and determination in his eyes brought tears to my own. Other than my dad and my other half he is the greatest man on this earth in my opinion. We ALL need to make this happen for him whilst we can. I'm going to be at the gym by the time the regional news comes on. If he talks about how you can donate, would you or someone else write it down and I'll happily donate. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I'll try and find out anyway and post it. Give me a little while... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 To make a donation to the foundation, visit www.justgiving.com/TheSirBobbyRobsonFoundation or send a cheque to: Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, PO Box 307, Heaton NE 7 7QG. Let's do it folks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Ledge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Absolute legend of a human being, A true living legend, and I really do mean that. He totally reminds me of my Granda who sadly passed just before Christmas last year, despite battling cancer on 5 separate occasions, he still soldiered on, the best he could, with a smile on his face. Just like Sir Bobby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 To make a donation to the foundation, visit www.justgiving.com/TheSirBobbyRobsonFoundation or send a cheque to: Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, PO Box 307, Heaton NE 7 7QG. Let's do it folks I'll donate £30 this Friday when my EMA money gets paid into my account. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 To make a donation to the foundation, visit www.justgiving.com/TheSirBobbyRobsonFoundation or send a cheque to: Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, PO Box 307, Heaton NE 7 7QG. Let's do it folks Added to my favourites for when I get paid at the end of the month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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