if only all managers where as straight talking and honest as Sir Bob!. a true gent and a great man , rest in peace. p.s. sorry about this being late sir Bob.
Nice to see you guys were still acknowledging Sir Bobby on his birthday 18 months after he sadly died cancer. Fair play to all of you lot.
When I heard Bobby had passed away I was sitting with the missus. A Londoner and part time Chelsea fan. I admit. I shed a tear (a few actually). She looked at me and said "What's up with you, Wasn't he Newcastle.......?" Bloody southerners.
Doesn't matter I been saddened to hear of many Sunderland players deaths and at the end of the days its a game, a true gentleman died of cos your going to be upset whatever team u support.
Sir Bobby came from an era where the north east stood as one. Where folk would watch one team at home one week and the other the next. Only recently (last 25 years) has this changed. I think the majority of us all still wish a fellow north eastener all the best. I'll never forget that little gesture Bobby gave when the Germans knocked us out in the semi finals, wasn't anger, wasn't petty but just said everything about the guy. The one thing we all in the north east can appreciate and applaud is a footballing man. After all it takes one to know one. Thanks Sir Bobby for lots of happy memories
I agree with cbrad's comment. I am saddened to hear when a Newcastle player passes away. My attitude is that when a guy plays for Newcastle he is the enemy <s> but when he leaves the club or retires he becomes part of the rich history of north east football. Unless he comes back to them in another capacity of course!!
I never met him but from what I have seen and heard he was a gentleman and a thoroughly nice man. Also he was undoubtedly one of the best English managers of recent times. We need more like him. He was of a generation where it was possible to watch both teams as my dad did and his dad before him did. You obviously had your favourite but it was ok to cheer your neighbours on because you recognised that they were the same as you. They where the blokes you worked with and drank with, they just followed a different team. It’s such a shame that that healthy but mostly peaceful rivalry was hijacked by idiots and then fanned into outright hatred by certain chairmen and owners in their quest to sell more and more shirts and merchandise. It took all the fun out of the rivalry for me. I think Bobby saw that as well. NUFC was in his blood, there is no doubt about that, but he did have a soft spot for SAFC too. And I think conga dancing around the table in the board room in front of your defeated rival showed a lack of class that would have frankly sickened him. Every now and then I meet an NUFC fan who knows what I'm talking about and misses those days too, but all too often I meet people who only want to scream obscenities and bile, funny thing is they are usually the Sky/Hall/Sheppard generation of fans. Anyway, Bobby is missed, moan and rant over.
This thread just reaffirm's why I love the people of the North East. Big Chris has just confirmed what we already knew, he has no empathy or natural human feeling and in my opinion has had far too many last chance's. R.I.P Bobby, well remembered.
