by David Lacey

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/jul/31/sir-bobby-robson-die...

indeed - one of those people that seemed to be genuinely loved and respected, rarely heard or read a bad word said about him. One of football's (very few) decent guys.

But a long and legendary career. A small piece of me has gone with him. RIP.

Watched the start of the Sir Booby Robson trophy last week on TV. Genuinely moving when Sir Bobby was bought in and he met the players.

He was clearly very ill but still had a smile on his face. His sheer love of the game and enthusiasm for it made him special even before you look at his achievements which were significant.

RIP and best wishes to his family.

I thought Bobby deserved a picture but my work browser is very old and sometimes doesn't show them properly , if it's not working you couldn't give it a tweak could you thanks (sorry to be a bother.)

He was a lovely man, representing the best possible attitude towards football.
I liked his joke that when the doctor started mentioning "malignant melanoma", he thought it was the name of the right-back for Benfica.

Always came across as genuine nice guy who loved the good things in the game. His ability to keep getting names wrong was also brilliant as per this example :

Reporter to Newcastle's Shola Ameobi: 'Do you have a nickname?'
Ameobi: 'No, not really'
Reporter: 'So what does Bobby Robson call you?'
Ameobi: 'Carl Cort.'

I'm glad he's not suffering anymore. Football will not see his like again.

for everything Sir Bobby, especially Italia 90.

He made the sweeping statement that millwall fans should have flamethrowers turned on them after some trouble between supporters in a Millwall v. Ipswich game many years back.
I was at the game and strangely he didn't have anything to say about his own supporters.
So,maybe not all will be crying their eyes out.

...here. Including this one from Howard Wilkinson.

"My best memories of Bobby are the funny ones, all the more funny because he remained blissfully unaware, nor offended that his faux pas became a source of such fun.

"At one England Under-21 gathering, I selected Shola Ameobi who was a young striker at Newcastle under him. Bobby had also bought at great expense Carl Cort, a striker from Wimbledon.

"Shola had about six Christian names, most of them, to me, unpronounceable and in an attempt to put him at his ease on his debut performance, I called the lad over and asked him what Bobby called him when he was at the club.

"With absolutely no sense of resentment, rather more with a sense of love and understanding, Shola said, 'Carl Cort, mostly'.

Very sad news
When i saw him on the telly on Sunday
at his charity match he looked desparately ill.
A gentleman ,a gentle man and a real football man.
Bobby Robson loved football.
I had the pleasure of meeting him briefly once.
"it's a pleasure to meet you as well,young man"
That's what he said to me.That'll do for me i thought.

As a Newcastle fan, this really hurts, the guy was not just a great football man, but a real decent, honest human being - as has been mentioned elsewhere, this seems to be a rarity in the present day game.

I was at Bobby's charity fundraising match on Sunday, and when Nessun Dorma was sung and he sat looking out at his people, I was not alone in having a tear in my eye, but looking around the terraces there were many others struggling to keep themselves together.

Bobby had many qualities, and one the most endearing was getting names etc. wrong - I once spoke to someone who worked with him at St James Park and they swore that he always knew when speaking to the media how to slip in a faux pas just to lighten the mood.

I'm sure there will be lists of Bobby's sayings appearing in the press in the next couple of days - my favourite? -
"I would of given my right arm to be a pianist"

As for the moronic comments above - how about saving them for a while, then insert them where the sun don't shine?

Goodbye Bobby a helluva lot of people will miss you.

As a newcastle fan I am sure you and yours will be saddened by Robson's passing. However,If you're going to call me a moron can you explain why saying that he wasn't universally loved due to his nasty comments makes me a moron? Please note that I have said nothing unpleasant myself about Mr.Robson only commented on a fellow poster's comment.

Bobby, one of the best!

This is his speech from the Sports Personality of the year award a couple of years ago. You could bottle his enthusiasm and sell it............. RIP Bobby.

I see the Football League has decided on a minutes applause before every league game on the first day of the season. Is it just me that finds this tacky and uncomfortable, more appropriate to a performing seal.

Remember how moving the minutes silence was at the Manchester derby on the Munich anniversary.

60 seconds of private thoughts about a good man, surely we can manage that.

i thought fergie got lost then

steve285 agreed minutes applause are tacky

it was a miracle that the citeh fans kept quiet for a minute without shouting munich

r.i.p. sir bobby

The fawning media coverage of Sir Bobby's passing in the tabloids is quite hard to stomach, given that, let's not forget, they hounded him out of the England job for the abject failure of 'only' getting to the semi finals of Italia 90, a result they now praise to the skies.

'Brass necked' is not the half of it.

I'm not sure that's true, Dougie (although the fact that tabloids are not consistent in their heroes is, of course, true).

I seem to recall that he had decided to retire from England before 1990, and we all knew it would be his swansong. Didn't he already have PSV lined up, or am I completely mis-remembering?

Anyway, a good footballer, good manager, and, more importantly, a good man. So RIP.

OK, perhaps 'hounded him out' is not strictly accurate, but the general point stands about the chalk and cheese treatment from 1990 compared to today.

Given the loyalty and humility of the man it would be nice if the football world could lose a little of its petulance and greed this season.
I'll certainly be thinking of the great man at Hampton v Basingstoke next week, it'll take my mind off the game!
RIP Bobby.