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
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If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.
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This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that
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Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.
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And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done
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It wasn't going to be our day on the night.
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No (will not be watching Soccer Saturday) that's agony. When the lads go to the monitors and say 'oh there's been a chance just gone' or if I listen to a match on the radio all you are doing is burning up nervous energy for me and I won't be in that frame of mind.
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When you have got a bench like that you know you have got a lot of pace and a lot of goals, so when they start getting sharper and match-fit we will have a bigger goal threat this year,
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You get a wee bit hardened to it. But obviously you would rather have praise than the other stuff. Everyone, we should all remember, is human.
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At some stage I'll maybe have to do something about it because it is very difficult to keep six players happy,
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That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.
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Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
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If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
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I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
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I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.