http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/2277260/robson-hurt-by-boo-boys They don't like to hear about this nor do they like to see it!......they give their beloved Sir Bobby the same treatment. They make me squirm with embarrasment.
It never happened man, the Mags have told you a million times!!!! If it did it was just their famous 'handful of idiots'. Robson has been taken out of context by the southern based media who hate the TOOOOOOON ........... ""This club was shipwrecked when I arrived," Robson told The SP. "Staff here weren't worried about going into the First Division, they were worried about going into the second." "They could see this club getting relegated twice. The criticism isn't nice and it isn't right. "It hurts, it's not pleasant but it's the way things are these days. The game lives on this sort of thing. I know it comes with the territory but I did not expect it at Newcastle."
When this happened the general consensus of pub opinion at my local amongst the younger element was "he has been here 4 years, its him team and they are useless and he is too old now". Older heads said there was nothing that Robson could not put right. but they were considered to be past it as well. Just added: this was just after a televised game so the disaffection the SBR was not confiend to the ground.
No different to our supporters turning on Peter Reid really, or the current situation with whoever is in the spotlight, this is the nature of football, heroes one day villains the next, and I include myself in this rollercoaster, we all do it, it makes life interesting, its called football.
2 totally different situations. Sir Bobby Robson was one of the most decorated and sought after managers in the country (if not the world) and was a North East lad (he was NOT a geordie before any mags tell us otherwise) who also attended games at both Sunderland and Newcastle when he was not managing. Peter Reid fell upon a system by pure luck and then refused to let it blossom. We sat second in the league to Man Utd one Christmas and Arsenal fans had us tipped to push Utd for the title - Peter Reid decided to stay with what he had and we finished seventh. Great finish but should've put Sunderland on the map in a european sense that season instead of standing still. After that he lost the plot and his players got older whilst he didn't change anything and lost important players and his time had come. OK so we've had some **** since then but Peter Reid has not exactly set the management world alight since leaving SAFC
The terrifying thing about the way Robson was treated at Newcastle is that he'd already been offered the Sunderland job and turned it down. He told Radio 5 Live (or was it still Radio 2 at that time?) "I think they [Sunderland] have problems not even I can fix"! So if the situation at Newcastle was that bad, how bad was it here?! That's the horrible thought. I'm of the generation that used to buy a match-day programme and find, on the bottom corner of the front page : "The only club never to have played in any other but the First Division". We were proud of that. Very proud. And yet if I say on a SAFC forum today that the greatest of all sins is to be relegated, there are still some who think people like me are fanatical old farts! There are plenty who will come on here and make lame excuses like 'It might not be a bad thing. It'll give us time to rebuild and come back.' Tripe. What ever happened to shame? It's a horrible thought that Robson found NUFC with that mentality. And even more horrible that we were worse.
