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I really enjoyed it. The Ipswich stuff was well known of course, but always nice to see us winning cups in CinemaScope. Also felt stupidly proud at the shot of McGoldrick, Ward and Sears shaking Mark Robson’s hand when he was guest of honour for the Newcastle game.
Found the stuff about his year at Barcelona very compelling - I knew nothing about that bonkers Copa del Rey tie with Athletico Madrid - and was inwardly punching the air for Bobby that just as the Louis Van Gaal shaped vultures were circling, his team pulled out a stunning comeback - engineered partly by him making a bold double sub at 3-0 down.
The England stuff reminds you that with a shade more luck it would be Ipswich 2 Rest of the World 0 on the global stage.
“I left a beautiful job, surrounded by beautiful people to try and win the World Cup” - that’s our club he’s talking about, folks.
Of all the talking heads, Gazza moved me the most when he said, “I felt safe with Mr. Robson. Safer than I felt with anyone else.” and he came up with the title too. But leave it dear old Jose to come up with a perfect summary, “A person is only dead, when the last person who loved them dies”. Bobby Robson will live on for decades to come.
See it.
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 08:41 - Jun 8 with 4281 views
I watched it last night and have repeated the same quotes you've posted to anyone who'll listen.
Gazza's words about feeling safe with Sir Bobby really got to me - he clearly isn't an angel but he's needed that kind of guidance throughout his life and, for a while, he had it. The relationship those two men had was amazing.
Great post!
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 13:14 - Jun 8 with 4186 views
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 12:52 - Jun 8 by TLA
I watched it last night and have repeated the same quotes you've posted to anyone who'll listen.
Gazza's words about feeling safe with Sir Bobby really got to me - he clearly isn't an angel but he's needed that kind of guidance throughout his life and, for a while, he had it. The relationship those two men had was amazing.
Great post!
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l have it on dvd to watch tomorrow when the other half is at work. Am looking forward to seeing it, after all the comments about it on here over the last few days.
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even your post is giving me goosebumps on 13:18 - Jun 8 with 4181 views
I bought it on Google Play after the chap on here posted about it. What a documentary for an Ipswich fan. Indeed the Barcelona season was very interesting, not going to spoil it for anyone with events, but what a team:
13 Spain GK Carles Busquets 24 Portugal DF Fernando Couto 15 France DF Laurent Blanc 20 Spain DF Miguel Ãngel Nadal 4 Spain MF Josep Guardiola 5 Romania MF Gheorghe Popescu 7 Portugal MF LuÃs Figo 10 Brazil MF Giovanni 21 Spain MF Luis Enrique 8 Bulgaria FW Hristo Stoichkov 9 Brazil FW Ronaldo
TBH a lot of this doco made me tear up :'( Bobby is so well thought of.
The legacy he leaves is ubelievable, even now in 2018 the top two club managers were in that Barcelona side with Boby Robson, Pep and Jose, one as assistant coach, and they both feature heavily in the film.
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 14:45 - Jun 8 by MVBlue
I bought it on Google Play after the chap on here posted about it. What a documentary for an Ipswich fan. Indeed the Barcelona season was very interesting, not going to spoil it for anyone with events, but what a team:
13 Spain GK Carles Busquets 24 Portugal DF Fernando Couto 15 France DF Laurent Blanc 20 Spain DF Miguel Ãngel Nadal 4 Spain MF Josep Guardiola 5 Romania MF Gheorghe Popescu 7 Portugal MF LuÃs Figo 10 Brazil MF Giovanni 21 Spain MF Luis Enrique 8 Bulgaria FW Hristo Stoichkov 9 Brazil FW Ronaldo
TBH a lot of this doco made me tear up :'( Bobby is so well thought of.
The legacy he leaves is ubelievable, even now in 2018 the top two club managers were in that Barcelona side with Boby Robson, Pep and Jose, one as assistant coach, and they both feature heavily in the film.
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Totally agreed, just watched my DVD which arrived today. The Town years are a bit skated over and it employs a complicated narrative structure which can make it feel a tad disjointed at times, but that dotting about gets abandoned in the final third of the film, it settles down beautifully and is very very moving. The footage of Ronaldo, Guardiola and Shearer is fab. Sir Bobby was a god.
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 20:04 - Jun 8 with 4006 views
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 16:55 - Jun 8 by nshearman1
Totally agreed, just watched my DVD which arrived today. The Town years are a bit skated over and it employs a complicated narrative structure which can make it feel a tad disjointed at times, but that dotting about gets abandoned in the final third of the film, it settles down beautifully and is very very moving. The footage of Ronaldo, Guardiola and Shearer is fab. Sir Bobby was a god.
Also loved the bit early on when Sir Bobby is sending the Town boys out with last words of wisdom & Viljoen is behind him checking his hair and face in the mirror!
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 20:19 - Jun 8 with 3986 views
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 20:19 - Jun 8 by WD19
Where did you watch it patrickswell?
I too watched it last night in a tiny little cinema screen in Bloomsbury. Only about 10 people there, but it was fantastic.
Same screening. I was the bloke in the brown corduroy jacket in the second row. Came in during the trailers. Leave No Trace looks quite good doesn’t it.
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 23:08 - Jun 8 with 3913 views
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 23:08 - Jun 8 by vilanovablue
Fantastic documentary, I just felt Ipswich were slightly underplayed. Hanging it on the year in Barcelona was quite smart...
I think the reason for us being underplayed was quite simple - and from the filmmakers point of view, understandable - a lack of dramatic tension. They were, as Bobby himself once said, the happiest years of his life. I thought there was some good footage and it was a lovely touch to come back for the Bobby Robson Day game with Newcastle with that brief but touching shot of Mark Robson shaking our players’ hands, which was a perfect counterpoint to the sequence of Lady Elsie taking her seat at St James’s Park. The one area where they missed a trick with us was not including any mention of John Cobbold’s support of Bobby after the League Cup defeat to Man Utd in 1971. That encouraged Bobby to work even harder to bring success to the Cobbolds and the club and played a part in him rejecting overtures that were made to him by bigger clubs than us through the 70s and early 80s. I also think that the memory of Mr.John may have been what inspired Bobby to turn down Newcastle when they first approached him, given that he felt he had a job to do at Barca and had been promised by their president that his job was safe. Naive thinking in the boardrooms of Spanish football perhaps, but planted in the boardroom at Suffolk. Even Mourhino alluded to Bobby passing on the Cobbold mantra of “By losing today, we have given someone else the pleasure of winning”. At least with Bobby, that clear-eyed perspective was balanced by the fact that it wouldn’t be too long before you could celebrate winning, and it would be all the more sweeter for the setbacks you had gone through.
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 00:49 - Jun 9 with 3853 views
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 23:36 - Jun 8 by patrickswell
I think the reason for us being underplayed was quite simple - and from the filmmakers point of view, understandable - a lack of dramatic tension. They were, as Bobby himself once said, the happiest years of his life. I thought there was some good footage and it was a lovely touch to come back for the Bobby Robson Day game with Newcastle with that brief but touching shot of Mark Robson shaking our players’ hands, which was a perfect counterpoint to the sequence of Lady Elsie taking her seat at St James’s Park. The one area where they missed a trick with us was not including any mention of John Cobbold’s support of Bobby after the League Cup defeat to Man Utd in 1971. That encouraged Bobby to work even harder to bring success to the Cobbolds and the club and played a part in him rejecting overtures that were made to him by bigger clubs than us through the 70s and early 80s. I also think that the memory of Mr.John may have been what inspired Bobby to turn down Newcastle when they first approached him, given that he felt he had a job to do at Barca and had been promised by their president that his job was safe. Naive thinking in the boardrooms of Spanish football perhaps, but planted in the boardroom at Suffolk. Even Mourhino alluded to Bobby passing on the Cobbold mantra of “By losing today, we have given someone else the pleasure of winning”. At least with Bobby, that clear-eyed perspective was balanced by the fact that it wouldn’t be too long before you could celebrate winning, and it would be all the more sweeter for the setbacks you had gone through.
Great post. I think this thread should stay current throughout the summer as more people see the documentary.
Im not ashamed to say, I only love football because of sir Bobby. My own father was indifferent to football. 1990 England so close, so passionate, world in motion, cemented my admiration of the beautiful game. I then realised I had a half decent team down the A12 and came to a few matches. The crowd, the spirit, I got hooked. Only after a couple of years did I realise, Bobby WAS the Ipswich manager that built the Pioneer stand and the previous long heritage. Previous managers are not a part of becoming a club fan. So full circle, my team, my passion, the greatest English manager. SIR BOBBY.
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 22:37 - Jun 8 by patrickswell
Same screening. I was the bloke in the brown corduroy jacket in the second row. Came in during the trailers. Leave No Trace looks quite good doesn’t it.
Doh! My fat fingers on my phone downvoted this when I meant to upvote. I will make it up to you....and it was not a comment on the jacket....honest.
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Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 15:29 - Jun 9 with 3718 views
The Atletico Madrid comeback was inspired by what AZ did to Town in Amsterdam.
He pushed 5 up front just like they had done in the second leg when all seemed lost. Once you peg a team back with those tactics they find it very hard to relieve the pressure.
Saw the Bobby Robson documentary at the cinema tonight on 15:29 - Jun 9 by The_Last_Baron
The Atletico Madrid comeback was inspired by what AZ did to Town in Amsterdam.
He pushed 5 up front just like they had done in the second leg when all seemed lost. Once you peg a team back with those tactics they find it very hard to relieve the pressure.
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