Author: Bobby Robson

Gary Speed has never played better, never looked fitter, never been older.

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Byron Butler: You'd obviously made up your mind to play both Stein and Walsh?

Bobby Robson: Yes, I thought that individually and as a pair, they'd do better together.

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I would have given my right arm to be a pianist.

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Some of the goals were good, some of the goals were skeptical.

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Well, we got nine and you can’t score more than that.

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They can’t change any of their players, but they have changed one of their players and that’s the coach.

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Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

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Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.

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We didn’t underestimate them – they were a lot better than we thought.

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He never fails to hit the target… but that was a miss.

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Where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

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Practice makes permanent.

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He’s the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.

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Both teams – and Brazil even – got better.

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There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

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Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

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Their football was exceptionally good – and they played some good football.

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Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn’t bite and has a great tackle.

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The margin is very marginal.

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They're two points behind us, so we're neck and neck.

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I do want to play the long ball and I do not want to play the short ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

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