Author: Bobby Robson Page 2

Both teams – and Brazil even – got better.

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

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

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Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days.

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If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won’t lay any eggs in the basket.

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

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

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

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We’re flying on the Concorde; that’ll shorten the distance — that’s self-explanatory.

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They’ve probably played better than they’ve ever done for a few weeks.

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

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

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

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Guppy has a dextrous left foot.

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

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We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game.

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

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Until we’re out of the Champions’ League we’re still in it.

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