'Robson out' chants echoed around Wembley after England had gone down to second-half goals from Russian substitutes Gotsanov and Protasov. The first goal could be traced to an error by Mike Duxbury, who was an excellent club player who seemed jinxed the moment he pulled on an England shirt. It was a clumsy, uncoordinated performance by England, brightened only by the entrance on to the international stage of Portsmouth centre-forward Mark Hateley, who brought life to the England attack when he substituted for Trevor Francis. Steve Hunt also came on as a substitute for the second successive match to complete an England career that lasted just fifty minutes in total. Yet more huge headline criticism for Bobby Robson, who was being projected as the most hated man in the land by the warring tabloids. No manager in the history of the game had been subjected to such vitriolic criticism. At the height, or rather depth, of the campaign against him, Robson had to suffer the headlined nickname, 'Plonker.' Yet there was hardly a football reporter in the media circus who did not have a soft spot for the warm, likeable Geordie, who took the criticism on the chin and kept coming back smiling.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
BBC TV
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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