Sir Bobby Robson & Paul Gascoigne just before the penalty shoot out against West Germany at #Italia90 With everything going on, Robson still took the time to comfort Gazza and told him not to worry. What a man This clip still brings a tear to my eye - ThreadSky

80s90sfootball.bsky.social • 188 days ago

Sir Bobby Robson & Paul Gascoigne just before the penalty shoot out against West Germany at #Italia90

With everything going on, Robson still took the time to comfort Gazza and told him not to worry. What a man

This clip still brings a tear to my eye

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jezbox.bsky.social•188 days ago

Wor Bobby was a proper boy.

retrofootballnw.bsky.social•187 days ago

That was Gazza's last ever game in a World Cup. Incredible.

pkettle81.bsky.social•187 days ago

This is one of those facts that makes you take a huge step backwards, compose yourself for a moment and then realise the enormity of what this meant in reality

retrofootballnw.bsky.social•187 days ago

He had the world at his feet.

joe187899.bsky.social•187 days ago

That’s depressing and never thought about that until now.

retrofootballnw.bsky.social•187 days ago

Sorry 😭

joe187899.bsky.social•187 days ago

Nah not your fault mate. I’ve just never looked at it that way.
Sad really. Could have been something more

retrofootballnw.bsky.social•187 days ago

It dawned on me one day and I couldn't believe it.

joe187899.bsky.social•187 days ago

Yeah and me. Kinda knocks you back a little doesn’t it.. tho was a desperate time for us after Italia 90 .. for a good 8 years.

caribbeanpotter.bsky.social•186 days ago

Booby was one of the most decent, honourable and lovely men ever to be involved in the game of football. Unfortunately for Gazza, that was as good as it got, as he was never to play in a World Cup again.

thegingerpirlo.com•186 days ago

I want an edit button on here.

But then you'd change Booby so maybe I don't

caribbeanpotter.bsky.social•186 days ago

D'oh! I quite like it - it reminds me that he regularly got players' names wrong in a sort of gently malapropistic way, like an elderly uncle at a Christmas gathering feeling the after effects of a glass too many from the Watney's seven fold.

34020seaton.bsky.social•186 days ago

Just lovely. What a manager should be...

normotownz.bsky.social•187 days ago

"This is your first..." incredible to think that Gazza didn't make another World Cup.

jwwilkins.bsky.social•188 days ago

Never ever had an emotional connection to football that strong, and I was 9.

arniefal.bsky.social•188 days ago

What a man 🙏🏻

b8c1888.bsky.social•188 days ago

🫣

haunted-ape.bsky.social•187 days ago

Robson, what a man.
The heart ache that this match caused 11 year old me. I was devastated, not sure I'm truly over it now. It was the first time football made me cry 😢

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