The Newcastle Team from 1993 to 1997 was amazing...I was a Sunderland fan growing up, but started to enjoy watching Newcastle on TV, where I live support is quite closely split, but I have heard plenty Sunderland fans admit, and I could be murdered for saying this, there dirty little secret eas they privately enjoyed watching Newcastle in that era naming games like Barcelona, Man Utd and the two 4-3 Liverpool defeats as examples of the attacking football we all love. When Keegan left,. Dalglish tried to keep ot up, Gullit was a fucking idiot and we started to see good football being played again under Sir Bobby Robson, god rest his soul.
While I am on about Sir Bobby, what a man he was, he came to Dalton Park in 2003 to turn the Xmas Lights on, the crowd was very Sunderland biased and Sir Bobby owned the lot, they were practically on there hands and knees praying to him, yes, he was Newcastle manager, but he was able to turn a rival crowd in his favour.
When I asked for his autograph I was shouting 'Mr Robson, Sir, Mr Robson, can I have your autograph please' he came over and said 'Certainly son, but call me Bobby' and what I said next absolutely shocked my mates and made Sir Bobby laugh I had just bought the History of NUFC on DVD and said 'can you sign this, then when you die, I can double my money on it' my mates nearly died right there and then and Bobby 'good for you son, you'll do alright' signed walked off laughing and my mates absolutely speechless that I had dared to even say that...
4 years on and there is still a massive void in football left when he passed away
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