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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He hasn't wound me up today, my team wound me up!
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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.
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The team shouldn't miss one player. Kieran Richardson was a great influence on us because he had a lot of pace and was an aggressive lad, ... But I should be able to find one player in my squad who can match his qualities even if maybe they are not as good.
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Every time we had free-kicks the lads said they had to wait for the whistle but, when Gareth Barry asked to take it quickly, he could, so there seemed to be one rule for one team and one rule for the other.
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A draw wouldn't be a disaster for us but no way would I ever send my team out to draw a game.
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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.
english-athlete needed
Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.