Bryan Robson: Football Manager

Read what Pants said below...thought about it...

I guess Club Chairmen/Boards are hoping he (Robson) can replicate what he DID achieve at Middlesbrough. We might all laugh at the prospect of having him here and think it would be a disaster, but, whilst he was at Middlesbrough...

*Won the 1st Division title. Relegated the following season....
*...But got them straight back up again the one after that (unlike Worthy)
*Reached an FA Cup Final.
*Reached a League Cup Final.
*Kept Middlesbrough in a comfortable mid-Premiership table position in the two years he was there after their second promotion season under him.

I think we'd take that wouldn't we?

He has done little else, admittedly-mind you, when it was us, WBA, Palace and Southampton as the any three from four perm in our Premiership season-and WBA were bottom at Christmas-he kept them up, the rest, including us, went down. I think we'd have accepted that as well, wouldn't we?

Sheffield United remains to be seen. But he persuaded James Beattie to drop a division to play for them, as well as persuading Billy Sharp to join them, and not us. Wouldn't we have accepted that in the Summer?

I'd have him over Grant and quite a few others that are mentioned whenever we debate a possible new Manager.

Posted By: Martin Peters, Oct 6, 21:14:40