ROBINS CALLS IT A DAY

FORMER WALSALL STRIKER MARK ROBINS HAS ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE GAME. 

^{Robins scored 7 goals in 46 games while with the Saddlers in 99-00.} 

^{Robins wants to get in to management, and is currently taking his coaching badges.} 

^{He has told the BBC...}

^{"I'll never forget when I was at United and Sir Alex Ferguson said to me on the training field, `If anyone's going to make it as a manager, then it will be you'.}

^{"I've played under some great managers such as Ferguson, Martin O'Neill at Leicester and Ronnie Moore at Rotherham" (No room for Sir Ray Graydon then Mark?)}

^{"'I've learned a lot from them but I'd have to say Martin was the best manager that I have played under, from a personal point of view."}

^{Robins never quite hit it off with the Walsall crowd, but you get the impression he was popular with the Players following comments made in the Jimmy Walker auto-biography.} 

^{Robins was released because Ray Graydon didn't think he would suit the kind of Football we would be  playing in the Second Division.} 

^{Robins joined Ronnie Moore's Rotherham United, scored a hat full of goals, and helped Rotherham win promotion ahead of Walsall who followed them up in the Play Offs.}

^{Robins joined Sheffield Wednesday last season and managed 7 goals in 18 appearances.}

^{A detailed look at Mark's career and a full interview with him can be found by clicking here.}