bryan robson 60 today

agreed

What would he be worth nowdays £150 million?

Hell of a drinker too!

Great player.

great player

never forget when he kept dislocating his shoulder, which i'm told is pretty painful, yet still said he'd keep playing despite needing surgery on it, cant think of many players today who'd do that

Jan 11, 2017 -- 4:59PM, 1830 wrote:

What would he be worth nowdays £150 million?

He wasn't that good ! , crazy though today's market is . I'd say at his best he was still a bit below Frank Lampard

you could only find a pulse if you threw 20 pints down him

Don't be silly

I'd say at his best he was still a bit below Frank Lampard

Robson was a combative box to box player like a young Steven Gerrard on steroids. Frank lampard had a remarkable career but I doubt even he would compare himself to Bryan Robson.

Just another in a long list of English players since the days of 66-70 who were lorded that never delivered when it really mattered.

If he was a horse he would suffer seconditus like so many of our supposed greats.

Stepped up to the plate against a great French team in the 82 World Cup

So to be a great player you have to win what?  The European Cup the World Cup?..to do that you need to be part of a great team..Robson wasn't.

superb player,a lion

A tremendous player with great energy and bravery if it wasn't for injuries would have more England caps , happy big 60 Robbo

We have produced plenty of decent help but never a Pele, or either Ronaldo's or a Maradonna or a few others I could mention and while the utmost respect is in order these players are clearly a class above The Robsons and Gerrards who unfortunately could not inspire their team mates to collect the ultimate prize but I do live in hope that one day----

Not a fair comparison. The three players you mentioned are/were forwards, Robson was a midfield player. I'd imagine that all of the teams that your players played for would have had Robson in their team if they could have.

over rated in my vho hard grafter but lacked the class to be top rate. really nice guy though and really glad he got over the big c

A poor mans Nicky Reid.

Can't think of him without thinking about Clare Tomlinson

"The last time Denise Robson, 43, met Clare she attacked her with a crutch after catching her with her husband in a Leeds hotel room at 2am in January last year.

Angry Denise spotted the Sky girl - whose left leg was in plaster after breaking an ankle - half hidden under the bed. She grabbed one of Clare's crutches and lashed out at her. Robson leapt in and dragged his wife away."

never knew that

was a great player who carried an inferior team for most of his career. He was like the English version of Paul McStay.

He wasn't no Matthaus, Platini, Hagi or Zidane.

A decent player nevertheless and the comparison to fat Frank is not unfair.

Not unfair perhaps, but inappropriate. Very different players. Robson more akin to Gerrard in his dynamism and will to win, but again the comparison only goes so far.

My hunch is that Robson would have overshadowed them both had he been playing now, purely and simply because he would not have been able to have a skinful every night and thus would not have been so susceptible to injury.

I think the skinfull was his fuel.

Bryan Robson 90 caps 26 goals
Frank Lampard 106 caps 29 goals
Steven Gerrard 114 caps 21 goals

It was his downfall, like it was of that whole team. McGrath, Whiteside, Robson - all made of porcelain despite being big strong men. The drink did it to them, because that's what it does to top level athletes.

Shame, but then again if they'd started winning the League that early, I'd have been so much more bored of it by the time they gave it up a few years ago.

Fergus said that when he arrived in 1986 he soon realise there was social club of them players you mentioned , he kept Bryan Robson because he realised he was indispensable to the team, a lot of United fans were shocked that he let such a fantastic player like Paul Mcgrath leave but obviously he know injury and alcohol would take its toll

I dare say Wilkins was involved as well, unless his thirst is a more recent affliction.

Yeah Kevin moran as well , I think Strachan was a teetolar but Fergus didn't trust him

A scotsman who doesn't drink should not be trusted any less than a scotsman who does imo

Strachan was too clever and opinionated for Fergie.

That United team I remember in 85-86 season won the first 10 games we all thought this was the end of our long wait for the title , finished 4th in the end

Pickled by November

That was the end for Big Ron the Scousers were just too good in those days

Two 0-0 draws against us that season. Unlikely, given the players we both had.

Anyone clinging to the idea that SKY have ruined football should have a look at the size of the crowds in the first division that season.

Right was Hoddle still at Tottenham then.

yeah, he left at the end of the 86-87 season.

What a player he was absolutely fantastic real class

Indeed he was. A gift from Heaven.

I remember a lot of games against Tottenham in those days some great games , went to white hart lane a few times ended up in the far corner of the Shelf a few times

Scored some goals and gave Claire Tomlinson her career

still remember ardiles being penalised for not going anywhere near jesper olsen one year - might have been a bit later - we lost 1-0 to an OT pen - not much changes mate.

I remember when Ardiles scored in Cup replay early 80s at Old Trafford

A great one for us was when won 5-3 at your place after being 3-0 down 2002 I think

Was about that time, crazy game. Who knows, this season's game at Spurs might be very important.

Is that your last home game this season

It is, although I would expect us to have wrapped up the title the week before.

Ha ha I know our last 2 away games are Arsenal and Tottenham could both be cricial

I only saw him play once live in 1982.
It was in Dalymount Park, Dublin in a Manchester United v Don Givens selected team for Don's testimonial.
It was the time of the Falklands war and the crowd wound up Man Utd with "Ole, Ole, Ole" chants.
Bryan Robson was a real Action Man, end to end all game.  Very impressive.
I could imagine his manager shouting to him "take it easy, Bryan, its only a testimonial"

Makes you wonder how good some of those older players would have been if subject to the health regimes of the present day.Best,Robson et al drinking like fish, Bremner smoking 50+ a day ,then again may just have extended their careers rather than made them better.

It's a shame we haven't got a modern hero of English football to compare them with, someone who's drinking and whoring and smoking had foreshortened their career and stopped them fulfilling their potential.

think leadership is underrated as it not as easy to measure as say goals/assists/passes etc but its one of the things the england team currently lacks, put robson or adams in the current england team and the likes of sterling and lallana etc would probably play better when the pressure is on

i think robson was a big miss in the 1986 wc, maradona may never have scored that great goal and possibly we would have gone through like manu did against barcelona in 1984 when robson starred to upstage the argentinian

probably one of the best games in the 1980's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD0jekbsQ44

great player,90 caps but would have been 130 if he hasn't been injured so much,unfortunately he`d have lasted about one tackle in todays game,an 80`s roy keane or Patrick viera imo,he was that good