Andrew 4747 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I was born in 1989. Am I alright to be sad he's gone gene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I was born in 1989. Am I alright to be sad he's gone gene? only you know the answer to that; i wouldn't dream of telling you what to think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Six years today now Sir Bobby has been gone. He was an amazing inspirational man, who repaired a club ripped apart by Dalglish and Gullit. In modern life there are far too many people classed as "Legends", this man wasn't just a local legend though, he was a national legend. He is the best human representation I can think of for the North East of England, dignified, honest, funny, legendary. RIP SBR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1244 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Same day as I split from the ex wife. I wasn't a happy man that day but at least some good came out of it! Was far more upset about Sir Bobby looking back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35056 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33733024 SBR getting his Lifetime Achievement award at the Sports Personality of the Year back in 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13856 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Love the video of him showing Gary Lineker around SJP and marveling at the quality of the wooden doors. Not sure even any of us would care enough to make sure the doors in the ground were of that quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2964 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Footballing royalty including former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, England forwards Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer, and former Brazil striker Ronaldo have all signed up to feature in a documentary about football manager Bobby Robson. The feature-length film is being co-directed by Gabriel Clarke and Torquil Jones, the team behind Steve McQueen: The Man And Le Mans, the feature doc about the Hollywood icon which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Bobby Robson will chart the life and career of the titular football personality, from his early days as football player in the UK in the 1950s, to his managerial stints with Barcelona, Newcastle United and the England national team, as well as his establishment of cancer research charity the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. A figure much-loved across English football, Robson died in 2009 at the age of 78. As well as newly-filmed interviews with figures of the footballing world, the film will also feature unseen footage from throughout his career, unearthed by the filmmaking team from various sports media archives. Gabriel Clarke also acts as the project’s writer, while Torquil Jones will co-produce alongside John McKenna and Victoria Barrell from London-based Noah Media Group. Funded by private investors and made with the blessing of Robson’s widow Elsie Robson, his family and the support of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, the team are aiming to deliver the film in time for the World Cup next year. Gabriel Clarke commented: “It’s an honour to be involved in this project. Sir Bobby Robson’s story is one of the greatest in football - from his playing career, which included twenty caps for England, to his extraordinary life as a manager.” John McKenna, CEO of Noah Media Group comments: “We’re delighted to have the opportunity to tell Sir Bobby’s extraordinary story. The response we’ve had from sporting legends, all keen to contribute their memories, is testament to what a truly remarkable man Sir Bobby was. The film will interweave classic archive with original interviews to poignantly reflect on the past and shine a spotlight on the state of the current game.” Noah Media is planning to self-distribute the film in the UK by utilising football clubs associated with Robson and football supporters’ groups. Peter Dunits of 22 Media International will handle further UK sales as well as international rights on the project. https://www.screendaily.com/news/alex-ferguson-gary-lineker-sign-up-for-bobby-robson-documentary-exclusive/5122654.article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17239 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Sir Bob would've been 85 today...this was on his 70th, brilliant trip....there may even be a tiny glimpse of a TT poster in the footage... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15518 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Cracking trip indeed (albeit I only had to come from just down the road). Cologne beer waitresses repeatedly failing to grasp that bringing those dinky 200ml glasses of Kölsch around wasn't going to work with our lot. How is it that long ago though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noelie 103 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 On 2/18/2018 at 04:20, PaddockLad said: Sir Bob would've been 85 today...this was on his 70th, brilliant trip....there may even be a tiny glimpse of a TT poster in the footage... I liked those strips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2964 Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Yesterday, his widow Lady Elsie and one of his sons Mark met fundraisers and supporters at the same Newcastle hotel where Sir Bobby started it all on March 25, 2008. Mark Robson: "I wish dad was here today. He would be enormously proud of our fundraisers. To help the people that we do, people affected by cancer, it's heart-warming." "Here we are, 10 years on and we've reached £12million, and that's only because of the fantastic support we're so lucky to receive." “When Dad passed away about a year and half after launching the Foundation we thought that it might just fade away a bit. We weren’t really sure about things. But we kept going and it’s just kept on at the same run rate. It’s incredible and it’s all thanks to our fundraisers. “I’m sad that he’s not here but he’s left a wonderful legacy and that makes me proud.” Most recently, we made a contribution of £892,000 to fund the cutting-edge PROSPECT-NE genome sequencing project and £1million to support the work of the new Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre at Newcastle University. George Caulkin: Sir Bobby Robson’s working life began in the murk of Langley Park Colliery. From the age of 15, as a trainee electrician, his day would start with a three mile trek from the pit shaft to the coalface, along “subterranean corridors,” as he put it, “deep below the fields and football pitches of my beloved North East.” For 18 months he inhabited a darkened world, a touchstone for the rest of his existence. Philip, Sir Bobby’s father, grafted in the mining industry for 51 years and missed just a single shift, an ethic which was welded to his son, who was brought up to value “unity, self-reliance, helping others,” the knowledge that his safety depended on others and theirs depended on him. Being part of a team, the very point of a team, was as vital to him as oxygen. It is what he was and what he breathed. Soon enough, Bobby’s career would be defined by the glare of floodlights rather than the gloom of the mine, but he never quite scrubbed the coal dust from his pores. As football led him across the country and then around the world, he viewed himself as an ambassador for our region and the qualities he absorbed at Langley Park. They kept him humble, hungry and compassionate. He was only ever as strong as those around him. When we consider Bobby’s legacy, we think about England and Italia 1990, about Paul Gascoigne’s tears and that twinkling summer, alive with possibility. We consider the miraculous transformation of Ipswich Town. We marvel at his bravery in heading to the continent, to Holland, Spain and Portugal – rare now, but rarer then – and we recall that blissful rebuilding of Newcastle United, his boyhood club, those Champions League nights. His legacy is cast in metal, with statues outside Portman Road and St James’ Park , and it can be found in the plotting and thinking around the game’s plushest dug-outs. Jose Mourinho, Sir Bobby’s translator at Porto, Sporting Lisbon and Barcelona, is the gilded manager of Manchester United; earlier this year, he called St James’ “Sir Bobby’s home.” Not too far away, Pep Guardiola played under Bobby at the Nou Camp, an experience he termed a “privilege.” Yet of the things which made and continue to make this great man relevant, football is one detail in a wider conversation. It may not even be the most important part, because his legacy can be found in the spirit which persuades people to organise coffee mornings or sponsored walks, to put their hands in their pockets while thinking of others, to sweat and grimace through 13.1 miles of running and in countless other feats of endurance. It can be found amid microscopes and machinery and lasers, in the cutting-edge research which the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation funds, in the treatment rooms and wards. It can be found in the indomitable folk who put themselves forward for clinical trials. It can be found in the nursing posts, in the people who care, in those who are tasked with making patients feel better. Sometimes, surrounded by hardship, you can see it in a smile. On the day he was appointed Newcastle manager, Bobby challenged a journalist to a race around the pitch. He was always the first into training and the last to leave. In his later years, he would crow to Lady Elsie about being as fit as a fiddle, about never missing work. She would remind him – you can imagine the little tut or the roll of the eyes – about having cancer five times, but it bounced off him. He had such a zest for life. When Sir Bobby launched his Foundation in 2008, it was to raise £500,000 to equip a new trials facility at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care in Newcastle. He did it with his usual zeal and enthusiasm and described it as “like being at the helm of a team again,” his “last and greatest team.” Even when his body was failing, he attended meetings and events and, naturally, he went to football matches. Fans he met would thrust notes and coins into his hands. He was funny, charming and dignified, but Bobby could be stubborn, too. You do not endure in football without being tough and nobody said that being in a team is easy. But it also makes us stronger, a collective will, a collective effort, part of something bigger than the individual, straining together for something better, pushing ourselves, reliant on each other. It is what Bobby learned covered in coal dust and £12m later, this is his legacy. You are his legacy. We are. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tooner 243 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 17 minutes ago, ohhh_yeah said: that's given me goosebumps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21911 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 welling up watching that trailer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Aye, looking forward to watching that. The bitter mackems are going to be all over this btw. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42356 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 2 hours ago, tooner said: that's given me goosebumps. Aye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wykikitoon 20110 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Jeaus I'm welling up just watching that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10838 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 The way footballing greats speak about him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20110 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Just finished it. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33100 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 I bought it on Amazon when it came out but was a little bit pissed when I watched it. Watched it again on Thursday. It was a good show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20110 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 The way he was treated man Also how fucked is Gazza? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21911 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 18 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: The way he was treated man Also how fucked is Gazza? He’s perfectly normal, man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2977 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Watched the Sir Bobby doco. It's brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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