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
soccer football winning
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.
games hope last sure win
We have to make sure we win our last two games and hope the other games go for us on Saturday.
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.
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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.
attempt pitch players reading
I'm not going to make excuses. Reading did well and I think they'll make it to the Premiership, and we had injuries, but the players I had on the pitch should have done better after going two up. Our only consolation is that nothing will now get in the way of our attempt at Premiership safety.
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.
breaks deserved few good performance result today
That's a good result for us. We got a few breaks today which we deserved for our second-half performance.
acceptable defensive far finished games lads last matches three
The lads have kidded me because in the first two games we started the way we finished last season, but the last three matches are just not acceptable as far as our defensive play is concerned,
good hopefully last signs turned year
We showed signs of what we were good at last year and, by not getting beat, hopefully we may have turned the corner.
midfield players
Coventry have made an enquiry about him because of all the midfield players I've got,
asked barry lads rule seemed team time wait whistle
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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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.
england english-athlete happens high man nobody profile
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.