ROBSON: I'll Take The Flack

By Matthew Jones
September 13 2003

Newcastle United manager Sir Bobby Robson has accepted that the level of criticism being aimed at him after the poor start to the season, was expected - and Robson is willing to accept it.

ROBSON SAID: "The manager will always have to come in for criticism and so when things are not going right, the manager will get it, not the players and hopefully not the chairman.

"In management there's pressure on you all the time but it is always from the outside, never from inside so I don't feel any pressure at all.

"We've made a rod for our own backs but I don't mind that because we have done well. Four years ago we were almost shipwrecked then 10th, 11th, fourth, third and suddenly we're 18th again but it's only three games and we're one game behind everyone else."