While Len Shackleton’s assessment of “what the average director knows about football” may be even truer now than it was in the ’50s, Jeremy Robson is grateful to have our owner on board. Like many other fans, I am feeling quite dizzy after the whirlwind start to Magic Martin’s start at the SoL. Amidst the hoopla associated [...]
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The Robson Report: acclaiming – and understanding – Gary Speed
Long experience of coroners’ courts has persuaded Monsieur Salut that depression can afflict the most successful, normally intelligent of people. We do not yet know what drove Gary Speed to suicide. Jeremy Robson offers a little more than the sympathy everyone feels … Only Ryan Giggs and David James have played more games in the [...]
The Robson Report: Bruce makes Leeds and 1973 seem centuries ago
Steve Bruce looked a broken man on Match of the Day. Some of the abuse lobbed at him, Salut! Sunderland believes, was unacceptable, but it had hit home. To a large degree, of course, he is the author of his present misfortune. Jeremy Robson, hardly a born again convert to the Bruce Out cause, [...]
The Robson Report: let Doncaster’s Billy Sharp personify football’s soul
Jeremy Robson Did John Terry mouth a racist insult in “conversation” with Anton Ferdinand, or was he merely enquiring as to whether Anton erroneously thought he had done so? A number of players insist that Terry is not a racist; the facts have yet to be determined. Billy Sharp’s gesture, however, needed no interpretation. Jeremy [...]
The Robson Report: killing football in ‘one foul swoop’
Every decent football supporter was outraged by the Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre’s repugnant call for changes to TV rights that would divert more and more money to a handful of “big” clubs. Jeremy Robson is surprised more attention was not given to another corporate threat to the national game, this time from Suits of [...]
Darren Bent: going, going ….
With M Salut still out of the country, Jeremy Robson is the first to comment on the surprising – and, for many of us, the very disappointing - news of Darren Bent’s transfer request. He’s scored thirty odd goals in a season and a half. He has consistently presented himself as a good professional, and has this morning [...]
Merde alors! We haven’t quite finished with the French
Apologies instantly to Tony who, commenting on the last piece, thought one bite at la cerise of French football was already more than enough. Jeremy Robson, who clearly puts my stance on Evra, Anelka et al on a par with the way his ancestors regarded wicked coalowners, simply wouldn’t shut up. His thoughts are now [...]
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Sixer’s Sentiments on Aston Villa and Liverpool: two Americans, two sackings
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Game of the Season: the road to Wigan’s peerless joy
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