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.. agree with Robson but .. reckon Peter Beardsely's a right **** .. great footballer though..

Knew someone who ran a pub team in Seaton Burn . The clubhouse got broken into and all the gear got nicked . Beardsley turned up a few days later and gave them some gear to raffle to raise funds for new nets and footballs . Quite a nice gesture
 
Knew someone who ran a pub team in Seaton Burn . The clubhouse got broken into and all the gear got nicked . Beardsley turned up a few days later and gave them some gear to raffle to raise funds for new nets and footballs . Quite a nice gesture

.. agree that was a nice gesture .. mate of mine's son isn't too fond of him..
 
The Robson family from Langley Park were in fact safc supportesrs!
 
They booed him at the Fulham game in his last season.

They booed him in 1982 when he correctly ended Keegan's England career.[DOUBLEPOST=1378629996][/DOUBLEPOST]

I've heard that a few times. John Kelter, a Newcastle fan who did the book on Jimmy Thorpe(the Sunderland keeper who died in the 30s) told me that he'd met Robson a few times and he would never so much as give anyone an autograph.

Exactly what I was told, by two who'd met him as I posted earlier
 
There's been some right shite posted on here with interludes of fact.

SBR was black and white, to say otherwise is just ignorant.

He loved the north east and all sport. He was from an area and era where there was a good mix of support and where it was common to go to see both teams. He says himself that he to SJP with his father and that it was a much easier journey than going to Safc would have been.

He was welcomed by the Sunderland board in later years but he was Nufc to the core.

He was spat at by a couple of knackers when he was England manager. Safc sang about him pissing his pants when he was Nufc manager.

Freddie Shepherd treated him disgracefully. He should have got rid pre season as opposed to saying he had a year and then sacked him 4 games in where we'd battered Spurs and lost, conceded a last minute equaliser at boro to a Hasselbaink far post punch. I think we'd drawn at home to Norwich as well.

He was not hounded out by the majority of fans. A good number thought his time had come (and if Shepherd had appointed a proper manager instead of that clown Souness things may have been different).

The sad fact is that the cancer returned relatively shortly after his departure and Souness dismantled a good team.

After that last game if the season there was booing for the team as they'd bollocksed up 4th place and had let themselves, the manager, the club and the fans down by there end if season form. Most fans left the ground and SBR slated them (count me in on this for leaving but not booing) in the media.

In the aftermath SBR was deeply hurt, Shepherd acted like a twat but his love for Nufc and the north east endured.

At his passing the club did the right thing; ordinary people of the north east wanted to pay their respects, opening the ground was the obvious thing to do. People laid Safc shirts, those weren't removed or defaced, they remained where they had been laid which was only right.

The mods on here really need to stop these threads; it's embarrassing. And yes, there are Nufc fans who rewrite history but not to the extent that us constantly spouted in these threads.

I was there; including the spitting game.
 
They booed him at the Fulham game in his last season.

They booed him in 1982 when he correctly ended Keegan's England career.[DOUBLEPOST=1378629996][/DOUBLEPOST]

I've heard that a few times. John Kelter, a Newcastle fan who did the book on Jimmy Thorpe(the Sunderland keeper who died in the 30s) told me that he'd met Robson a few times and he would never so much as give anyone an autograph.

What a load of shit, why spout lies
 
There's been some right shite posted on here with interludes of fact.

SBR was black and white, to say otherwise is just ignorant.

He loved the north east and all sport. He was from an area and era where there was a good mix of support and where it was common to go to see both teams. He says himself that he to SJP with his father and that it was a much easier journey than going to Safc would have been.

He was welcomed by the Sunderland board in later years but he was Nufc to the core.

He was spat at by a couple of knackers when he was England manager. Safc sang about him pissing his pants when he was Nufc manager.

Freddie Shepherd treated him disgracefully. He should have got rid pre season as opposed to saying he had a year and then sacked him 4 games in where we'd battered Spurs and lost, conceded a last minute equaliser at boro to a Hasselbaink far post punch. I think we'd drawn at home to Norwich as well.

He was not hounded out by the majority of fans. A good number thought his time had come (and if Shepherd had appointed a proper manager instead of that clown Souness things may have been different).

The sad fact is that the cancer returned relatively shortly after his departure and Souness dismantled a good team.

After that last game if the season there was booing for the team as they'd bollocksed up 4th place and had let themselves, the manager, the club and the fans down by there end if season form. Most fans left the ground and SBR slated them (count me in on this for leaving but not booing) in the media.

In the aftermath SBR was deeply hurt, Shepherd acted like a twat but his love for Nufc and the north east endured.

At his passing the club did the right thing; ordinary people of the north east wanted to pay their respects, opening the ground was the obvious thing to do. People laid Safc shirts, those weren't removed or defaced, they remained where they had been laid which was only right.

The mods on here really need to stop these threads; it's embarrassing. And yes, there are Nufc fans who rewrite history but not to the extent that us constantly spouted in these threads.

I was there; including the spitting game.



spot on
 
Let's be honest. He was a Durham lad who followed Newcastle, and most on here aren't happy with Durham lads who follow those ***** - including me.

But, he was a cracking fella.

There was a post earlier about favourite players who didn't play for Sunderland. Beardsley came to my mind. Once bumped into him in the metro centre with me Sunderland pin badge on. Was talking to him for 15 minutes and what a spot on lad. And every article you read about Beardsley all commentators and ex-pros said the same thing - played the game as it should be played - not one for the limelight just loved football.

Some times you gotta give credit where it's due and people like Bobby Robson and Peter Beardsley were/are spot on lads and a credit to the game - we could do with more like. Unlike Shearer who loved his hometown club that much that he insisted on being the highest paid player at the club - the wanker. Most of us, genuine football fans who love their club, would play for Sunderland or Newcastle for nowt.
What I liked about Beardsley is that he played for Fulham and Hartlepool in the 3rd and 4th divisions when his legs weren't up to the top flight anymore, just wanted to play football and if that meant dropping a few leagues so be it. Lots of players with International caps and league champions medals are too precious to drop down the leagues. Also think because he worked in a factory when he left school and came into the game a bit later he appreciated it a lot more.
 
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He's been dead 4 years time for everyone to move on.
I think he came from a different generation than most of us,my grandad would have been around the same area as his dad and people watched both teams on different weeks I know my grandad was a died in the wool mackem loved the club all his 99 years and 8 months-his last match was at 96-but also went to watch Newcastle the weekend after and vice versa,he said he stopped going mid 60s as it was getting abit tribal and as he put it wasn't about football anymore it was about cities and he was pulled due to his accent..so in truth Robson probably watched both as a child and whoever he supported he'd want all north east teams to do well due to his love of the area and of the game...he attended a lot of safc games with I think his brother and talked enthusiastically about all football and was just a bloody good bloke.
 
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I think he came from a different generation than most of us,my grandad would have been around the same area as his dad and people watched both teams on different weeks I know my grandad was a died in the wool mackem loved the club all his 99 years and 8 months-his last match was at 96-but also went to watch Newcastle the weekend after and vice versa,he said he stopped going mid 60s as it was getting abit tribal and as he put it wasn't about football anymore it was about cities and he was pulled due to his accent..so in truth Robson probably watched both as a child and whoever he supported he'd want all north east teams to do well due to his love of the area and of the game...he attended a lot of safc games with I think his brother and talked enthusiastically about all football and was just a bloody good bloke.

The Park in my user name is from Langley Park and I lived there for 20 years and I met him a few times, Mrs Maverick knows the family a lot better esp Lady Elsies side, yes he said he was a Mag and yes many of his family are Sunderland. Yes he hated Shepherd yes he managed Newcastle and yes he turned us down twice, yes both sets of fans didn't really show too much respect while he was alive for different reasons and yes he could be a grade a ****, you didn't manage the teams he did without having a nasty side. But in all this one up-manship the two sets of people who should be allowed to treasure his memory are Ipswich Town where he made a small club into something quite big and the people of Langley Park because he showed people that you weren't necessarily stuck in the rut of a life in a finished pit village in Co Durham. Sad really that.s what we have to argue about shows how small time our two clubs are.
 
he attended a lot of safc games with I think his brother and talked enthusiastically about all football and was just a bloody good bloke.
Not what a good few on here have said... Also cant remember him speaking overlly fondly of SAFC whilst in charge up the road, quite the opposite, but that could just be my memory.
 
Not what a good few on here have said... Also cant remember him speaking overlly fondly of SAFC whilst in charge up the road, quite the opposite, but that could just be my memory.
Don't really care what they say,I saw him quite a few times in the directors. Area in the premier concourse as he had good relationship with The board and was afforded the hospitality by the club and the next day when I was with my wife tending her horses at urpeth were he lived he would chat to you about any type of footy if he saw you and was just like talking to your pal when we signed tore Andre flo he told me it was a bad buy as Reid was looking for a tall Quinny type player to lay the ball off and he was the wrong man for the job as despite his height he was crap in the air but deceptively good on the floor and we wouldn't play to his strengths..was quite correct too.
 
.. a lot of Newcastle fans did want him out, saying anything else is pure fookin bollox and stacking the deck with all fluffy sh1te.. I remember listening to the radio and Newcastle fans were moaning, were venomous, about only finishing about 6th and that he was too old and wanted rid .. seemed like the majority to me ..


There's been some right shite posted on here with interludes of fact.

SBR was black and white, to say otherwise is just ignorant.

He loved the north east and all sport. He was from an area and era where there was a good mix of support and where it was common to go to see both teams. He says himself that he to SJP with his father and that it was a much easier journey than going to Safc would have been.

He was welcomed by the Sunderland board in later years but he was Nufc to the core.

He was spat at by a couple of knackers when he was England manager. Safc sang about him pissing his pants when he was Nufc manager.

Freddie Shepherd treated him disgracefully. He should have got rid pre season as opposed to saying he had a year and then sacked him 4 games in where we'd battered Spurs and lost, conceded a last minute equaliser at boro to a Hasselbaink far post punch. I think we'd drawn at home to Norwich as well.

He was not hounded out by the majority of fans. A good number thought his time had come (and if Shepherd had appointed a proper manager instead of that clown Souness things may have been different).

The sad fact is that the cancer returned relatively shortly after his departure and Souness dismantled a good team.

After that last game if the season there was booing for the team as they'd bollocksed up 4th place and had let themselves, the manager, the club and the fans down by there end if season form. Most fans left the ground and SBR slated them (count me in on this for leaving but not booing) in the media.

In the aftermath SBR was deeply hurt, Shepherd acted like a twat but his love for Nufc and the north east endured.

At his passing the club did the right thing; ordinary people of the north east wanted to pay their respects, opening the ground was the obvious thing to do. People laid Safc shirts, those weren't removed or defaced, they remained where they had been laid which was only right.

The mods on here really need to stop these threads; it's embarrassing. And yes, there are Nufc fans who rewrite history but not to the extent that us constantly spouted in these threads.

I was there; including the spitting game.
 
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