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What was Bobby Robson like?

Was he, because obviously your first experience with him,

he loses three games.

Yeah.

He must, I'm not like, that was slated before my time, A, EA.

But if that happened now, the manager wouldn't make it to the World Cup.

Was he under, he was under a lot, and also, he'd gone into the 1990 World Cup, people know he's leaving, don't they? Because he's agreed to join PSV or Porter or, I can't remember who it was. What was the, was there a lot of respect for him from the player? A load of respect, yeah, you know, absolutely. And, uh, I think everyone. on his back, weren't they? Yeah. Oh, there always is, isn't they? I mean, any, you know, absolutely. A lot of press on his back, weren't they?

Yeah, there always is, isn't there?

I mean, any England manager is going to get that.

But he had a load of respect from the players, certainly.

And he would make just funny mistakes a lot as well.

But that kind of endeared him to you from us.

He can never remember if it was names.

Well, that's right.

He would mix names up.

So we had Neil Webb and Stuart Pearce okay that becomes Stuart Webb

which one of the two did he mean

so you'd see both guys going off and then

one peering off it was just the weirdest

the weirdest situation

the World Cup 90 it's not like a full bench, is it? It's like, no, that's right. That's right. Yes, I was in on the semi-final. But you still, even if you're not involved, you are inside. I do remember being inside in the Egypt game. Yeah. At half time. And what are you doing just sitting there? That wasn't a pleasant. Well, I was holding my nose. What do you mean? Because Gary Lineca, that's one where he overstretched.

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