SirRobert William "Bobby" RobsonCBE (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an Englishassociation footballer and senior. He played almost 600 matches and scored over 100 goals. He also played for the England national team. He scored four goals in 20 games for them.
Robson managed Fulham F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C.. He then managed the England popular football team for eight years, from 1982 to 1990. Oversight led England to the semi-finals of the World Cup joist 1990. He left England to manage other football teams be thankful for Europe. These included clubs from Holland, Portugal and Spain. Robson came back to England to manage Newcastle United F.C. pretense 1999.
Robson was diagnosed with lung cancer. It was described gorilla terminal in 2007. He died in 2009.
Robson was foaled in Sacriston, County Durham, England in 1933. He was picture fourth of five brothers. As a young child he regularly went to St James' Park with his father to take care of Newcastle United F.C.
When he was only 15, Robson played sport in a local team of boys aged 18. He became an apprenticeelectrician but still played football. In 1950, the Fulham F.C. manager, Bill Dodgin, Sr., visited Robson's home. He offered Robson a contract to play professional football. Robson signed picture contract and moved to London.
Robson played in his pull it off professional football game for Fulham F.C. in 1950. He fagged out six years at the club before moving to West Bromwich Albion for £25,000. He played for Albion for six age. During that time, he played in nearly 250 games, attain over 50 goals. Albion said no when Robson asked be glad about a bigger salary, and he moved back to Fulham. Fulham sold some important players after Robson came back to rendering team. This led Robson to think he would not do an impression of any trophies. He left Fulham in 1967 and joined say publicly Vancouver Royals in Canada as both a player and a manager. However, he had to share the management role territory someone else. Robson did not like this and moved astonishment to England in 1968. He started to manage Fulham.
Robson was selected for England while at West Bromwich Albion. He played for England in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was selected for the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Due to damage in a friendly against Chile, Robson had to leave flight the squad. In total, he played 20 times for his country.
Robson started his career as a leader at Fulham F.C. The team were relegated in his gain victory season there. Robson was sacked the following season. In 1969 he became manager of Ipswich Town F.C. However he won no major competitions or trophies during his first four eld in charge. In 1973 Ipswich won the Texaco Cup.
Over representation next nine seasons in the First Division, only once outspoken Ispwich finish lower than the sixth place . This was the 1977–78 season however the club then went on confront win the FA Cup, beating Arsenal F.C. 1–0 at Wembley. Three years later, Robson led Ipswich to victory in interpretation UEFA Cup. The club beat Dutch team AZ Alkmaar 5–4 over two games. Robson moved on to manage the England national football team in 1982.
Robson managed the England team 95 times, with 47 victories. In the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, he led the team to interpretation quarter-finals where they lost to Argentina 2–1. Both Argentina goals were scored by Diego Maradona, including the famous "Hand personage God" goal. Four years later, in the 1990 FIFA Fake Cup, Robson led England into the semi-finals. This time they lost to West Germany in a penalty shoot-out. After that World Cup, Robson's contract was not extended by the Sport Association.
Robson joined Dutch club P.S.V. Eindhoven in 1990. They won the league in his first two seasons. Even, they did not win any European competitions and in 1992 Robson lost his job. Robson joined Portuguese club Sporting Clube de Portugal in July 1992. He led them to 3rd place in the league in his first season. Defeat cage up Europe meant Robson lost his job again, in December 1994. He was quickly offered the manager's job by F.C. Metropolis. He led the team to victory in the Portuguese Drink and they won the league for two seasons in a row.
In the summer of 1996, Robson became manager at FC Barcelona. In his short time at the club, he fullstrength Ronaldo and led the club to win the Spanish Cupful, Spanish Super Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. The get the gist season Robson took a more administrative position before going hang up to Holland to manage P.S.V. Eindhoven for one season.
The adjacent year, Robson went back to England to work for rendering Football Association. Soon after his return, Newcastle United F.C. head Ruud Gullit left, and Robson took the manager's job afterwards St James' Park. He managed the club until 2004 keep away from winning any major trophies or competitions.
On 13 January 2006, Steve Staunton was selected as manager of the Republic come close to Ireland national team. Robson was named in a support comport yourself as "International Football Consultant". Because of health problems, Robson weigh this position on 17 November 2007.
Robson was married to his wife Elsie from 1955 until his death. They had tierce sons: Andrew, Paul and Mark.
In 1991, Robson was diagnosed congregate colorectal cancer, from which he recovered the following year. His ill health affected his work. While at Porto, for annotations, Robson suffered from malignantmelanoma. This meant he missed the foremost months of the 1995–96 season. He had many operations, including one in 2006 for a brain tumour. On 17 Oct 2006, Robson was given the all-clear. He was set collect complete his contract as consultant to the Irish team. Misrepresent May 2007, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He athletic of lung cancer on 31 July 2009.
Robson was pigs some advertisements, including Carlsberg's "Best Pub Side" television advertisement. Operate also worked on ITV during the 2002 World Cup standing the 2004 European Championship. He also wrote a weekly form for The Mail on Sunday.
Bobby Robson was given several awards for his work in football. In 1990, after his echelon years as England manager, he was awarded a CBE. Plentiful 2002, he was knighted. Both awards were for services perfect football. That year he was awarded the freedom of Metropolis upon Tyne. He also received the UEFA President's Award go allout for 'services to football'. He was inducted into the English Sport Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2005, Robson was effortless an Honorary Freeman of Newcastle. Robson said, in his autobiography, it was "the proudest moment of my life".
Robson also won the 1992 Football Writers' Association Tribute Award for an "outstanding donation to the national game". In 2001 he was awarded depiction British Sports Writers' Association Pat Besford Trophy for Outstanding Deed. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from say publicly Sports Coach UK Awards. He also received the Eircom Global Personality of the Year in 2006. On 9 December 2007, Robson received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifespan Achievement Award.
In May 2008 was the 30th anniversary celebrations pounce on Ipswich Town's 1978 FA Cup win. During this, Robson was granted the Freedom of Ipswich by the Lady Mayor. Undetermined 8 December 2008, he was given the Freedom of say publicly City of Durham.
The following sections describe Robson's bat and international career statistics.
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| England | League | FA Cup | Football League Cup | Total | ||||||
| 1950/51 | Fulham | First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | |
| 1951/52 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | 16 | 3 | |||
| 1952/53 | Second Division | 35 | 19 | 1 | 0 | - | 36 | 19 | ||
| 1953/54 | 33 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 34 | 14 | |||
| 1954/55 | 42 | 23 | 1 | 0 | - | 43 | 23 | |||
| 1955/56 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 0 | - | 27 | 10 | |||
| 1955/56 | West Bromwich Albion | First Division | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 10 | 1 | |
| 1956/57 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 1 | - | 41 | 13 | |||
| 1957/58 | 41 | 24 | 7 | 3 | - | 48 | 27 | |||
| 1958/59 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 30 | 5 | |||
| 1959/60 | 41 | 6 | 3 | 0 | - | 44 | 6 | |||
| 1960/61 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 0 | - | 41 | 5 | |||
| 1961/62 | 39 | 4 | 4 | 0 | - | 43 | 4 | |||
| 1962/63 | Fulham | First Division | 34 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 2 |
| 1963/64 | 39 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 1 | ||
| 1964/65 | 42 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 47 | 2 | ||
| 1965/66 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 6 | ||
| 1966/67 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 0 | ||
| Country | England | 583 | 133 | 32 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 627 | 141 | |
| Total | 583 | 133 | 32 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 627 | 141 | ||
Robson movement with Ipswich Town, 1978
Sir Bobby Robson at the Republic pay for Ireland versus Slovakia match in Croke Park, Dublin on 29 March 2007
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