No to a Bobby Robson stand.

[Tooj]

I haven't read the previous posts. Give him a stand ffs Why does everything have to be over complicated? Should someone write him a C.V to be nominated. He's a legend in football. A legend at the club. Give him the stand.

 

The point is other people have done greater things for us so are more deserving.

 

And that his career highlights were elsewhere.

 

Stand at Ipswich, for example, would make perfect sense.

 

Precisely. Some great times under SBR and I will always be grateful for some of those times, but as you have rightly said his best achievements happened elsewhere.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

Surely we wouldn't be naming a stand after Bobby for purely his success or there lack of.

Its the way everybody felt about our tea when he was in charge, it was the way the players seemed more willing tobe accepted by us as members of their comunity, its the way he got them working so hard, and smiling and making us smile.

After 2 years of a horrific fall from grace, and after being considered one of the most attractive teams to watched, loved by most other fans because of a philoosphy and then dropping in opinion as far as we did in 2 years, for hi to come here and win 8-0 in his first game then continue and exceed that level for 5....

We saw some excellent players in that time, some great partnerships, great things said about our club and city by the players, he took us to the highest level and to show off our culture and way of life (football) in some of the greatest venues in european football, he matched them getting players such as Andy Griffin to make players like Pavel Nedved to look average.

OK, we won nothing, thats not a suprise, but the way he had this whole place light up for however many years because only of the an he was....thats why he'd deserve a stand!

[Mick]

Major surgery? It didnt take a tactical mastermind to play Shearer and Ferguson and not have them on the bench

 

Ferguson was always injured and a waste of space, Bobby peddled him.  In his first 12 months he was here 20 players either came to the club or left it, I'd say that was major surgery. 

[Mick]

gullit leaving lifted them. i personally believe any near decent manager would have kept us up thast season but we wouldn't have gone on to become as good as we did.

 

I'm not sure that's the case but we'll never know either way.

[Ronaldo]

How about the "Bellamy, Vianna, past Van Wonderen, BELLAMYYY! stand".

 

Shocking memory.

 

I can't believe he got the Feyenoord player right but not the first two NUFC ones

 

I was talking about the goalscorers, numbnuts.

 

Righto.

 

Was that not obvious to anyone else?

[Rich]

Looking back, aye. Just shocking banter rather than shocking memory.

 

My apologies.

[Optimistic Nut]

Haven't seen it mentioned yet.

 

http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/awards/gala/news/newsid=1149850.html?cid=rssfeed&att=

 

The FIFA Fair Play Award for 2009 has been posthumously given to Sir Bobby Robson, who passed away on 31 July this year following a long battle against cancer at the age of 76.

 

His widow, Lady Elsie, was present at the Kongresshaus in Zurich to collect the award, bestowed on the former England manager for the gentlemanly qualities he showed throughout his career as a player and coach.

 

Colleagues, opponents and football fans all over the world respected and admired Robson, who epitomised the values of fair play, while also enjoying tremendous levels of success. As a player, he represented England at the 1958 FIFA World Cup™ and as a manager won league championships in both the Netherlands and Portugal, as well as earning trophies in England and Spain.

 

A lifetime of leadership

Born in County Durham on 18 February 1933, Robson was an apprentice electrician before beginning his playing career as a 17-year-old at Fulham. In two separate spells at Craven Cottage he scored 77 goals in 344 matches, though he also made 239 appearances for West Bromwich Albion, scoring 55 goals in all for the Baggies. Capped by his country 20 times, Robson eventually yielded his place in the team to Bobby Moore.

 

He took up his first coaching post at Fulham in 1968 and though he failed to make an impression there, he performed miracles in his next job at Ipswich Town. The men from Portman Road became a feared side under Robson's stewardship, winning the FA Cup in 1978 and the UEFA Cup in 1981.

 

His reward for sustained success with the East Anglian outfit was promotion to the England job in 1982. In his first FIFA World Cup™ finals appearance at Mexico 1986, Robson steered his side to the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out by a famous Diego Maradona brace. Four year later, he would go one better, taking England to the semi-finals at Italy, where they went out on penalties after a titanic duel with Germany.

 

Robson then returned to club football, trying his luck overseas with PSV Eindhoven in two separate stints between 1990 and 1999, and taking up the reins in the meantime at Sporting, FC Porto and Barcelona. He returned home in 1999 to take over at his beloved Newcastle United, remaining in the post until 2004.

 

Since first being diagnosed with cancer in 1992, Robson had fought and overcome the disease on several occasions, before beginning treatment again in 2007.  However, in February of that same year, it was described as being terminal. A little over a year later, he launched the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation to raise money for cancer research which has gone on to raise over £2 million. The Foundation focuses on the early detection and treatment of cancer and the clinical trials of new drugs that will eventually beat it.

 

Tributes

Following his death, the footballing world came out in praise of the charismatic figure. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter thanked him for his contribution to the beautiful game, saying: “He always showed great passion for the game and will be missed by all football fans across the globe.”

 

In a recent interview with FIFA.com, England’s legendary full-back Stuart Pearce said this about his former manager: "Bobby Robson was exactly the same as the general public perceived him to be. He always conducted himself with great integrity, even after a crushing defeat in the semi-final against Germany. I was very fortunate to have played under him.”

 

Therefore, for his spirit, success and sense of Fair Play, Robson is a worthy recipient of this award. FIFA and the football world salutes him and the values he upheld during his life.