wormy Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Interesting read, Paully. Might have to pick up that Jonathan Wilson book. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I hated that press conference when Van Gaal took over and Robson is sitting there taking in all the shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 More Than A Manager is now on UK Netflix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Watched "more than a Manager" yesterday. oh how i wept! What a beautiful human being Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Principal of St.Johns college, Durham was this mornings thought for the day on Radio 4. Spoke at length about Sir Bobby and how he was great, not because of his influence in football but because of the way he stayed in touch with Gazza and raised all that money whilst he was on the way out. One of the people I really wish I could have met. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishMagpie Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Watched "more than a Manager" yesterday. oh how i wept! What a beautiful human being Just finished watching it myself today. Cried like I'd just lost my dad. If anyone hasn't seen it yet just watch it! To think where he had this club and compare it to where it is now.... :'( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Tremendous! https://www.facebook.com/341886883092165/posts/388322575115262?s=747773104&sfns=mo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 I picked up his autobiography (Farewell but not Goodbye, 2006) for 50p the other weekend and finished it last night. Such a frustrating read towards the end, Shepherd couldn't have handled it any worse than he did. It makes you wonder how things would have turned out had they appointed an ambitious young manager rather than an angry dinosaur of a bloke in Souness. I really pity the new generation of fans that missed that period in time. They don't know just how bloody big this club is capable of being. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 10 whole years, man. So sad to see what we've become in that time. I didn't realise the SBR foundation had raised so much money, tremendous stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Fucking hell. We’ve fallen so far, man. Tragic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Managing his dad’s club, his boyhood hometown club, was an honour for Bobby. Not the biggest club or biggest job, but the best job a Geordie lad could ever have and the only job to ever have. He was the proudest man on earth to be manager of Newcastle United, a job he would go on to call his civic duty, the privilege was all his he said. No Bobby, it was ours having you manage our club, your club. Such was the man’s integrity and honour, he wouldn’t break his contract at Barcelona where he was shafted and they wouldn’t have stood in his way had he left for Newcastle, a job he would have been paid more money to take. If he hadn’t of been sacked and was still alive right now he’d no doubt either still be the manager or working at the club in some capacity, a job he would have done for free under any circumstance. His final job and the job if he could choose to bow out from as a manager and from this mortal coil of ours, he’d have picked NUFC every time . The way he was treated by the board, some fans and some players is a black stain against them all, shame on them. Sorely missed, never forgotten, always remembered. Walking in a Bobby wonderland... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Class by Jose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Is he a fisherman these days? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 He was one in a million, Bobby. I still miss him - not only because he typified everything that has been lost in society as a whole. The emphasis in care and compassion. To better yourself, not by fucking each other over, but through kindness and generosity. God bless the man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Simply the best to ever be associated with this club. It was his sheer class, humility, and brilliance on and off the pitch. I love him more than KK because there was just something extra special about SBR’s human side. Should never have been sacked, should have run the football club from board level until he either decided to walk away or pass away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 He was more than the club, he was the entire city and everywhere it touches. It was about togetherness, ambition, hard work and pride. I doubt even one person didn't follow the man based on his principles. It just so happened he had the desire and ability to do it through football, which helped him reach even more. I'll be forever proud to say what he did influenced me and the certainty I have about what our club and those who support it can do for others through football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Watched "more than a Manager" yesterday. oh how i wept! What a beautiful human being Just finished watching it myself today. Cried like I'd just lost my dad. If anyone hasn't seen it yet just watch it! To think where he had this club and compare it to where it is now.... :'( Watched it on the plane on the way back to the UK this summer. Hard watch, absolutely criminal how much he was pissed on with England, at Barca and eventually us. Didn't even know him but miss him greatly. Simply the best to ever be associated with this club. It was his sheer class, humility, and brilliance on and off the pitch. I love him more than KK because there was just something extra special about SBR’s human side. Should never have been sacked, should have run the football club from board level until he either decided to walk away or pass away. This completely, especially the end. Should have moved upstairs and brought his choice of manager in to mould (unless it was in fact bruce or Carver haha). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gonzo Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 What makes me so sad is that his last year watching the club, he could see the direction the clubs new owner was taking it in. That must have stung. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Meanwhile, we’ve got Steve Bruce giving it the Geordie card. The gulf between them is immeasurable. This club has been occupied and Bruce is Vidkun Quisling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Watched "more than a Manager" yesterday. oh how i wept! What a beautiful human being Just finished watching it myself today. Cried like I'd just lost my dad. If anyone hasn't seen it yet just watch it! To think where he had this club and compare it to where it is now.... :'( Watched it on the plane on the way back to the UK this summer. Hard watch, absolutely criminal how much he was pissed on with England, at Barca and eventually us. Didn't even know him but miss him greatly. Simply the best to ever be associated with this club. It was his sheer class, humility, and brilliance on and off the pitch. I love him more than KK because there was just something extra special about SBR’s human side. Should never have been sacked, should have run the football club from board level until he either decided to walk away or pass away. This completely, especially the end. Should have moved upstairs and brought his choice of manager in to mould (unless it was in fact bruce or Carver haha). No doubt at all Mourinho would have eventually came here had Sir Bobby been upstairs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Got it for my birthday last year, definitely had tears welling but often of pride. There was this moment against Man City in 01/02 when Keegan came back, got a great ovation of course and rightly so, the crowd sung "There's only one Kevin Keegan" and after a few verses it morphed into "There's only one Bobby Robson" and slightly louder. (Intend to watch again soon now I remind myself of it) Given that his choice to come in as an understudy was Mourinho. That might have worked out for us. But Abramovich arrived, Porto win the champions league and the rest is history. My main motivation for maintaining a season ticket for that year was that it would be Sir Bobby's last year. He deserved a proper thank you...and it would have been awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate End Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Simply the best to ever be associated with this club. It was his sheer class, humility, and brilliance on and off the pitch. I love him more than KK because there was just something extra special about SBR’s human side. Should never have been sacked, should have run the football club from board level until he either decided to walk away or pass away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Watched "more than a Manager" yesterday. oh how i wept! What a beautiful human being Just finished watching it myself today. Cried like I'd just lost my dad. If anyone hasn't seen it yet just watch it! To think where he had this club and compare it to where it is now.... :'( Watched it on the plane on the way back to the UK this summer. Hard watch, absolutely criminal how much he was pissed on with England, at Barca and eventually us. Didn't even know him but miss him greatly. Simply the best to ever be associated with this club. It was his sheer class, humility, and brilliance on and off the pitch. I love him more than KK because there was just something extra special about SBR’s human side. Should never have been sacked, should have run the football club from board level until he either decided to walk away or pass away. This completely, especially the end. Should have moved upstairs and brought his choice of manager in to mould (unless it was in fact bruce or Carver haha). No doubt at all Mourinho would have eventually came here had Sir Bobby been upstairs. Would only have happened if Robson stepped down about 3-4 years earlier. Mourinho said so himself. Robson asked him to come with him around 2000 and he declined because he wanted to be a Manager himself and knowing Sir Bobby as well as he did, he knew it would be a few years before he moved upstairs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Just watching 'More than a manager' for the first time. Such a great person. "He said it was the hand of God. I said it was the hand of a rascal. And I'm right" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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