I'll give you Keane, but Robson? Not for me. He was very energetic, and attacked the box well, but his passing and tackling was awful, and, and this is a big point for me, it was he who started the whole aggressive confrontations with Refs when he Man Utd didn't get the decisions, which has been a blight on the game ever since. I don't believe he is in the same class as Keane as a player, the fact that Man Utd had to wait until Robson was no longer a fixture in the team to win Ferguson's first title is very telling. they built a team around him and it wasn't good enough to win the league, only when that team was re-modeled without Robson did Man Utd start to win league titles again. There's also the England thing, '86 and '90 we start with Robson in the team and look awful, he goes off injured in both tournaments, the team is re-shaped around technically better players and we start to look something, rather than a vanity project to one man's reputation. Don't get me started on Euro '88 in which he wasn't injured, and we lost every game! Came bottom of our group, Russia, Holland and Rep Ireland with a minus 7 goal difference and no points from the three games.Clacton-ammer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 7:35 am Did you ever see Robson & Keane play live? Both were top quality players.
One of my favourite memories of Robson in that era against West Ham was of Ray Stewart laying him out, the biter bitten.
