Sir Bobby Robson the former Fulham and Ipswich player and the famous coach of Fulham and Ipswich, Sporting Lisbon , F.C.Porto, P.S.V Eindhoven, Barcelona , Newcastle United and England from 1982 to 1990. Passed away on the 31st of August 2009 at Durham .Due to multiple cancers that finally killed the greatest coach ever.He started watching Newcastle play from the terraces,but he is remembered more as a manager then a player he got a 13 year spell at Ipswich in which they won the F.A cup and the U.E.F.A cup.It was as Englands coach that he was remembered for in the 1986 world cup Argentina knocked out England wit the unfamous Maradona hand of gods goal. In 1990 England reached the Semi finals of the world cup, the closesest they have gone to after the 1966 winof the world cup . They lost to Germany in a penalty shootout with Stuart Pearce and Criss waddle missing theirs. He won titles at P.S.V. and two years in a row at Porto, Here as he did not know the language Jose Mourinho as his assistant as he knew both languages. He also won the trophy at Barcelona, he will also be remembered by football lovers for bringing Ronaldo Lima to P.S.V and the football world.
At New castle after they were at the bottom of the E.P.L and Guulit was sacked he got thejm to the champions league for two years in a row.And they also became the first club in Champion League history to loose their first three games and still qualify for the group of 16 teams.Last year with cancer winning all the time, Sir Bobby came to watch his beloved Newcastle play with a hope of seeing them survive, but they lost by one point and were relegated sadly as referee failed to give a goal scored by Mark Viduka. Newcastle is a shrine and funds have flown for his cancer trust 1.6 million pounds on friday came That is how popular he was. Rest in peace sir Bobby Robson.
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