Thou Shalt Not Pass: The Alistair Robertson Story

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Run, Diego, run!” One can only speculate on the exact wording of Diego Chará’s internal monologue after the Portland Timbers’ feisty midfielder found himself in the line of a goalbound header during an MLS game against Real Salt Lake. With the Timbers 2-0 down, he instinctively leant his body to the right where a combination of knee and hand stopped the ball dead. It bounced, his goalkeeper collected it, and appealing Salt Lake arms went up. And Chará legged it. Within two weeks I was thinking 'what on earth have I done?' The players that were there couldn't have got in Bromsgrove's side. There are the hugely instrumental characters that carry the badge with just as much pride as they did when it wasn’t on a tie but on a shirt. Under Atkinson the Baggies reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, finished third in the league, and got to the quarter-final of the UEFA Cup, where they were undone by a late goal from Red Star Belgrade.

Happily for Wolves a renaissance was just around the corner. The signings of Steve Bull and Andy Thompson, who actually joined days before the second replay but were ineligible for the match, had a swift impact on their fortunes. The 66-year-old will discuss his time at Wolves during a half hour Facebook and YouTube video, before an extended podcast is released on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Slowly the team broke up. Atkinson went to Manchester United and took Robson with him. Cunningham was sold to Real Madrid after the winger demolished Valencia in the UEFA Cup.

Turning it around

Robertson took the place of the injured John Kaye in the team. But he says Kaye was a huge inspiration to him throughout his career.

With Albion going on to beat United 2-1 thanks to goals from Brown and Hope – it’s fair to say Robertson’s debut couldn’t have gone any better.Little was only in charge for 36 days, but it proved to be a good decision because that's when Graham Turner arrived. Turning it around Robertson will be the eighth inductee to feature on the clubs’ new podcast, with the domineering centre-half set to discuss his four-year Molineux career when he joins hosts Mikey Burrows and Chris Iwelumo.

Little did Robertson know at that stage, the next place he would wind up was just down the road. Revenge I would definitely ask for referrals. Ask for other people they worked with. Have them do a sample edit instead of just sending your manuscript without having them give a sample of their work. Also, a lot of editors charge thousands and thousands of dollars, and an author doesn’t need to pay that much to get good editing. So, be careful how much you pay for edits. Don’t get Chorley,” he says. “I was sitting at home pleading at the TV: ‘Please, don’t get Chorley’.Robertson eventually patched things up with Albion, so well in fact that he helped set up the former players' association. Robertson, Ally ally now works for ryebrook bmw in shrewsbury i used to work with ally at evans halshaw in dudley we still keep in touch in spite of me living in thailand Steve Bull joined the tributes to Cyrille Regis, describing his former Wolves team-mate as “a man and a player I looked up to”. Atkinson said: “Cyrille was probably the best centre-forward I ever worked with – and I worked with a few good ones.

After retiring from league football in 1990, he became player manager of non-league Worcester City and later took up the reins at Cheltenham Town. He currently works for a car sales company. As an editor for the suspense line, do you only edit suspense novels or do you edit other genres too? The three of them led by example,” said Atkinson. “The way Cyrille conducted himself, he never let anything get to him. They still love the Albion,” says Snape with a sense of pride as he turns his attention to the future.

Garry Thompson

Bull said: “I was the big player at Wolves but Cyrille is one of those players I always looked up to - a true legend of the game. It was Saunders' arrival in February 1986 that signalled the end of Robertson's tenure at The Hawthorns. It now boasts just shy of 150 members who have either played one first team game or have a long-standing connection to the club. If we can go a few wins on the trot we’ll move up so many places. It can go the other way, though, if we lose a few in a row. I went and sat in my car outside and started crying," he admitted. "I had a go at the chairman Sid Lucas, told him 'I've been here 18 years and I've given it everything'.