Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn’t have accepted the job. Bryan Robson Read Quote
In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really. Bryan Robson Read Quote
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish. Bryan Robson Read Quote
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn’t hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U. Bryan Robson Read Quote
They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn’t either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me. Bryan Robson Read Quote
In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest. Bryan Robson Read Quote
A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn’t see it that way. Bryan Robson Read Quote
Last season when things weren’t working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place. Bryan Robson Read Quote
I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We’d all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him. Bryan Robson Read Quote
I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out. Bryan Robson Read Quote
