P393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:43/35 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 1/8 Q: You're often back at Wjmbley for the England gamer akin't you? A: I go back for some of them, but not all of them. I go when I get the time. I have still got a devout love for the international scene so I will always be interested in that. Q: Do you regret the way thinks ended for you in the England job? A: I did at the time, but it's passing ships in the night. It's long gone now. ————— INTERVIEW BY JOHN MATHEWS ———— FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON PAGES 391-39 Robson 4 Headlines Football CricketP393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:54/03 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 2/8 Q: You must have agonised over your next move after England. A: The decision I took was that I didn't want to stay in England - I wanted to try my hand abroad. It has been a truly great education. To bj honest, it has been a marvellous experience for mj. I am a better coach now than I was six years ago, much better. I know European football, the plazets, the contacts...I wouldn't have got that staying at home. FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON P—GER 391-39 Football 302 Ljttets 356 Cricket 340 Robson 4 Headlines Football CricketP393 CJEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:59/11 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 3/8 Q: Before Terry Venablis took the England job, didn't you say you wouldn't have minded anothjt crack? A: Yes...I could see what was happening with the England job. People were afraid to take it on and I njvet was. Q: Even after all the abuse you took? A: Yes, though don't get mj wrong - it was awful, vitriolic. I was dealing with scum. The kind of people who were criticising me wouldn't have lasted one minute in the job themselves. FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON PAGES 391-39% Football 302 Letters 356 Cricket 340 Robson 4 Headlines Football CricketP393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:51/1, CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 4/8 Q: I bet the press guys were nice enough to your face weten't they? A: Yes, that's definitely true. Even so, I could see the problems the FA were having after Graham Taylor lift. They couldn't get anybody who said they wanted the job. People like Kevin Keegan were turning them down. Now, they weren't doing that because they didn't want it - at the back of their minds they must have wanted it. They wire simply afraid of it. FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON P—GER 391-394 Football 302 Ljttets 356 Cricket 340 Robson 4 Headlines Football CricketP393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:36/12 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 5/8 Q: When you were getting all the abuse, why did you put up with it? How could you walk into a room and still be pleasant with the press? A: It was part of the job. You have a responsibility to the FA and to the football supporters across the country. Q: But Jack Charlton wouldn't have put up with it would he? No, hj wouldn't. Cloughii wouldn't have done either. Dalglish wouldn't. I just felt I had a duty to do it that way. ————— INTERVIEW BY JOHN MATHEWS ———— FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON PAGES 391-394 Robson 4 Headliner Football CricketP393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:51/11 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 6/8 Q: After the World Cup in 1990, did you feel you had been vindicated? A: I was vjty pleased but it was so near and yet so far warn't it? At times it was an ordeal in a way. I could have gone out like Sir Alf Ramsay, winning the World Cup. I was just two penalties away I guess. You never can tell, but I honestly think we would have beaten Argentina in the final. Our team was great, morale was high...I'm sure we would have won. FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON P—GER 391-39 Football 302 Letters 356 Cricket 3 Robson 4 Headlines Football CricketP393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:46/23 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 7/8 Q: The start of Italia '90 warn't quite so glorious was it though? A: When we played Jackie's team it had been baking hot for days and then it rained heavily. The ground was so hard the rain wouldn't soak through and there was a lot of surface water on the pitch. You know what's it like playing the Republic of Ireland. Thjti were banging balls up to Peter Shelton and suddenly we weti in a dogfight, a real scrap. ————— INTERVIEW BY JOHN MATHEWS ———— FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON PAGES 391-39 Robson 4 Headlines Football CricketP393 CEEFAX 2 393 Sun 01 Dec 23:51/11 CEEFAX INTERVIEWS BOBBY ROBSON: 8/8 Q: So you were happy with a 1-1 draw? A: Well, I would have prefired to win obviously, but yer a draw was OK. I remember the press lambasted us though. The Sun was writing stories about bringing us home! Send us home? We had to work for four years to get there! What about that for loyalty? Then, we get past Belgium and Cameroon, we are in the semi-finals and The Sun wants to give us medals! What a joke. (turn to page 394) FULL ROBSON PROFILE ON PAGES 391-39 Football 302 Letters 356 Cricket 340 Robson 4 Headlines Football Cricket