RIP Bobby Robson 1933-2009

Bobby Robson was a true gentleman and man of football. His defiance and spirited fight against cancer typified his attitude in life that he applied so well to professional football. What better an example of this than the World Cup 1990. With our wonderful media truly on Robson's back, our troops went out to Italy with a manager who would always back his players. When a player had a bad spell or couldn't find the net, he was the one always on their side and had a superb way of bringing the right players in and out at the right time to get results. He also liked his sides to play attacking football with flare. Always favouring attacking wing play giving his teams width, Bobby Robson's managerial career was incredible and everywhere he went he was liked and respected. From Ipswich to PSV to Newcastle at club level this was a true legend of football that will be missed in the football world. Personally, Bobby Robson was my favourite England manager because he had 2 World Cups where England were very competitive in Mexico '86 and Italia '90. Alex Ferguson always says there are too many outspoken journalists talking about something they don't really know enough about. As did Brian Clough. For me, one of the best examples of this was the build up to England getting to the semi-finals against Germany in 1990. The media criticised Bobby's men of being defensive and negative. However that team had a fit Paul Gascoigne in and a super sharp Gary Lineker which meant that any team could be threatened with super attacking quality.

Bobby Robson - we all will miss you, thanks for some legendary footballing memories.

Darren Bent apologises for twitter outburst

As Sunderland have followed Bent now for most of the pre-season you can understand Steve Bruce threatening to end his pursuit for the Spurs man. Sunderland are in need of a consistent floe of goals, Bent is a decent Premier League striker with good experience but he scored a major political own goal by expressing his frustration so publicly on social networking site twitter.com. By slating Hull City and Stoke he won't have made any friends there and also Daniel Levy would have surely been fuming with the tweet. By the end of the day, Bent apologised for his actions.

In the same week as Phil Hughes twittered about being dropped, it's not surprising that some of these spoilt sportsmen are washing thier linen in public via the internet. However it is not a channel of communication that can be used by a player directly, surely the player must always communicate via the club they work for and with their approval.

Interesting word of mouth though...