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Sir Robert William "Bobby" Robson, CBE (18 February 1933 β 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and football manager. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national football team.
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βWhen Gazza was dribbling, he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.β
βManchester United dropped points, Liverpool dropped points, Chelsea dropped points, Everton dropped points, so in a way we haven't lost anything at all really, although we dropped all three.β
βWhat is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. Itβs not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. Itβs the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. Itβs a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his fatherβs hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.β
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Bobby Robson on Theo Walcott
βHe is potentially brilliant, and he is going to be exciting, but potential is nothing unless you can produce it. I would think he's way, way, way, miles away from international World Cup football.β
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Craig Bellamy on Bobby Robson
βHe would talk to me like I was the best player in the world and I went out at St Jamesβ Park feeling like I was going to play like the best player in the world. I am 5ft 6 or 5ft 7ins tall but I am telling you this: when I put that kit on and I was standing in that tunnel with Bobby Robson, I felt like I was Didier Drogba.β
About Bobby Robson
Sir Robert William "Bobby" Robson, CBE (18 February 1933 β 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and football manager. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national football team.