Bobby Robson: The Ultimate Patriot

by Bob Harris, Gary Lineker (Foreword)

Author Bob Harris was Robson’s friend, confidante and ghostwriter throughout his managerial career, travelling the world with him and provided with an insider’s view to his incredible life and times. One of the best known reporters of his generation, Harris accumulated hundreds of hours of recordings with Robson in the process of ghostwriting six books published under Robson’s name as well as reporting on hundreds of games for club and country. Now, a decade after Robson’s death, Harris has sat down to write about their friendship, utilising this incredible body of material and his own memories of the great man. Part memoir, part biography, this is an extraordinary and fondly recalled portrait of one of football’s most loved and iconic individuals.

330 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 24, 2020

About the author

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CUF Lecturer, British History
Worcester College

Selected Publications:

* Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid- Eighteenth Century. (Oxford, 2002) 392pp.
* 'The Scots, the Westminster Parliament, and the British State in the Eighteenth Century' in Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1850. (Manchester , 2003) pp. 124-145
* (ed.) Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution . (Edinburgh, 2005) 1-22, 49-78, 164-195pp.
* 'Scottish-English Connections in the British Radicalism of the 1790s' in Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900. Vol 127 (Oxford , 2005) pp. 189-212