Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBEis an English football manager and a former player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion in 1972 before moving to Manchester United in 1981 where he became the longest serving captain in the club's history...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 January 1957
cup deliver english-athlete history left major manager quite three took
I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
english-athlete sacrificed terry
A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
bobby english-athlete moore stopped trying
They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
again good involved squad weekend
We will have a look again at Zoltan over the weekend but he could be involved in the squad for Monday, which would be good news.
central defenders developing game good neil understanding
Neil Clement and Curtis Davies are developing a good understanding as central defenders and getting to know each other's game well.
news
It's very disappointing news because everything was agreed,
points
It's not over though, there are still a lot of points to play for.
chris coming fair speak
I've got to be fair to Tomasz. Chris will be concerned, but I'll speak to him in the coming weeks.
couple options
I've got a couple of options at left-back.
afford cannot concern
The big concern for me is that we are conceding too many goals, and you cannot afford to do that at this level. It is about two a game.
ages annoyed believe bell came chelsea drops game gone players reason second sting takes whatever whether
The bell had gone ages ago and our players had gone out to get on with the game. For whatever reason Chelsea came out late. Whether they believe it takes the sting out of the game or drops the tempo, I don't know, but it annoyed me as my players wanted to get on with the second half.
ahead bit boost bottom fight gives hard nice
It's a nice boost to be off the bottom of the table. We know there is still a hard fight ahead of us but this one gives us a little bit of encouragement.
birmingham confident exciting fans far hope job looked next past playing reading round team
The possibility of playing Birmingham in the next round is an exciting proposition for fans in the midlands - but I've not looked too far ahead, because we've got to get past Reading first. I am confident we can do a job in the replay, and I hope the team will see things through.
broken chelsea good night played
We were broken down not by Chelsea's good play but by our own mistakes. After that Chelsea played as well as they can and it was a long night for us.