Tuesday, 4 August 2009

Sir Bobby Robson



The photo above is of the main gate at Fulham Football Club's Craven Cottage ground taken yesterday [by Stuart's campaign manager].

It shows some of the tributes that have been left to this great former Fulham player by fans - and as the various scarves show, not just Fulham fans.

Sir Bobby played for Fulham twice in his career: from 1950-1956 and then from 1962-67 making almost 350 appearances and scoring 77 goals for the club. He very briefly managed Fulham - the first of ten sides he was in charge of - after he retired as a player in 1968.

It is gestures like that above which make football the game I love; regardless of the fact that I happen to be a QPR supporter Sir Bobby did so much for our sport and if nothing else demonstrated that, the fact that tributes are being paid from Stevenage Road in Fulham to St James's Park in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne says it all.

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