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

" News of Robson's new position in the Netherlands became public before the start of the 1990 World Cup leading to tabloid stories impugning Robson's patrotism; he sued Today for calling him a traitor. The transfer fee of £25000 was a club record for Albion at the time. She was a student nurse and later a teacher.

In August 2008 his lung cancer was confirmed to be terminal; he said: "My condition is described as static and has not altered since my last bout of chemotherapy. From 1991 onwards he suffered recurrent medical problems with cancer and in March 2008 put his name and efforts into the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation a cancer research charity. He died just under a year later.