Author: Bobby Robson

We’ve got great speed in the team, not just Gary Speed, but great speed!

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I said to the lads at halftime, I said, there was nothing to say.

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

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

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Home advantage gives you an advantage.

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I’m not going to look beyond the semi-final – but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final.

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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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Look at those olive trees – they’re two hundred years old – from before the time of Christ!

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The first 90 minutes of a football match are the most important.

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He’s very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

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He’s got his legs back, of course, or his leg – he’s always had one but now he’s got two.

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When he was dribbling, he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

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

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The margin is very marginal.

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Maybe not goodbye, but farewell…

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

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We don’t have to play them every week, although we do play them next week.

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

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