By Aston
November 12 2004

Former Ipswich Town manager Sir Bobby Robson says he is ready to take up another management job should the right one come along.

Bobby Ready For Work

Former Ipswich Town manager Sir Bobby Robson says he is ready to take up another management job should the right one come along.

Sir Bobby has been unemployed since being relieved of his duties at Newcastle United earlier this year

Sir Bobby: “There have been one or two offers but at the moment all I can do is wait until my contract has been paid up.

“That is progressing and it is in the hands of the League Managers' Association

“I'm not ready to take the wrong job but I am ready to take the right job.

“I'm fit, alert and I'm still bright. None of the enthusiasm has gone and I'm ready to get back into it.

“In the meantime, I'm keeping myself busy, in fact I'm doing so many things I don't know how I found time to go to work.

“I'm getting over what happened to me at Newcastle. Life goes on, and you mustn't look back, you must look forward and that is what I'm doing.”

When Sir Bobby was relieved of his duties groups of supporters wanted him to become Town’s president, a position that has been vacant since 1987, when Lady Blanche Cobbold died, Sir Bobby has commented on this, saying: “That has not been asked of me so I can't say anything about that.”

Sir Bobby spent 14 years at Ipswich winning the UEFA, FA and Texaco cups three FA cup semi finals and finishing runners up in the (old old) first division twice.

Sir Bobby added: “I lived in the Town for more than 30 years and had 14 of my best years in football while I was here.

“It was my baby but the baby has grown up and Joe Royle is doing a remarkably good job there.

“Ipswich look hot favourites to go up and I hope they do. I also hope that Norwich City can stay up and, if both teams can be playing in the Premiership, it would be thrilling for the whole East Anglian region.

“Joe is an expert manager and is a good talker. He is doing a good, solid job with very little money to play with.

“He has had to sell his best players yet still keep the club at the top. That is a difficult job I can tell you, very difficult.

“They have not got a large squad, it is a quality squad so it may depend on injuries to key players and he may have to bring players in but, on the surface of things, I can't see any team playing better than Ipswich.

“They have hit a consistent run and the thing now is - can they keep it going?

“The trick is to do as well after Christmas as they have done up to it but, at the moment, they are flying high.”

Source: EADT

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