Newcastle United have announced a charity match in aid of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation between the England and Germany sides which took part in their famous 1990 World Cup semi-final. The game will be played on July 26th at St James' Park.
Sir Bobby says he is looking forward to meeting up with his England players once again: "I'm thrilled at the prospect of re-uniting my 1990 England squad in support of my charity. It will be a pleasure to see them together again and hopefully this time we'll get the result we want against Germany!
"We had a good group of players that year, very talented, very tough and ambitious. We got better as the tournament progressed, more accomplished, and the fact we lost on penalties and not in open play tells its story.
"I found out in World Cup football that some teams, over a long spell, are happy to get knocked out and go home but we weren't like that. We were determined to stay in the competition as long as possible and had great will to win.
"Some players get homesick but we had great staying power in the team and our ambition was to stay to the bitter end. We were so near but far.
"I'm very grateful to my former players who are coming up to Newcastle to help us raise money for my charity. I'm also very appreciative of the efforts of the German players who have so much further to travel.
"During the World Cup we all had the same aim and that was to win the tournament - but we were on opposing sides. It's very special for me now, all these years later, to know we're all pulling together with the same aim, as the same team, fighting cancer."
The ex-Town boss spends much of his time raising money for his cancer charity these days and is fighting the disease for a fifth time: "The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation is extremely important to me and I'll keep going just as long as I can to help raise money for the experts trying to find a cure for this terrible disease. I understand one in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer and the effects can be devastating.
"It happened to me in an instant. One minute I was sitting watching the football at Ipswich Town and the next minute I was being told I had a cancerous tumour on my brain. It happened to me like that, in an instant, and it can happen to anyone."
Tickets for The Sir Bobby Robson Trophy are available through Newcastle United priced at £10 for adults and £5 for children.
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was launched in March 2008 and so far has raised more than £1.2 million.