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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 28th November 2025 - with Adi Mowles & Stuart George. · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to PCR Sports. Good evening and welcome to the
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PCR Sports Show here on PCR FM for the start of another
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sporting weekend. I'm Nilesh, and as always on our
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show every Friday between 6:00 and 7:00.
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We'll bring you the latest sporting headlines very shortly
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from in and around our city of Peterborough.
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Our guests on the show tonight are AD Moles and Stuart George,
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and they've been integral in leading a committee to build a
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statue in memory of Peterborough United legend Tommy Robson.
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And we'll be chatting to shortly to them both about the
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endeavours they've been going through over the last what, 4/4
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and 1/2 years since Tommy sadly passed away.
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But first, let me just cover off your sporting headlines for you
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this week and we'll start with a bit of ice hockey.
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And Peterborough Phantoms have qualification for the semi
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finals of the National League Cup in their own hands.
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The City side defeated Bristol Pitbulls 6 two in a crucial
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combined league and cup clash at Planet Ice on Sunday and two
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more wins in the qualification stages would guarantee them a
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top four finish. The first of those games is on
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Saturday at bottom club Solway Sharks and the other is at home
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to inform Sheffield Steel Dogs on Saturday December the 6th,
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which also marks the return of this to the city of legendary
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Phantoms coach Slava Kulikov. Phantoms won the cup in 2023
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under Kulikov's leadership. Phantoms also picked up a point
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from a penalty shootout loss in Bristol on Saturday after a 5
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five draw. A three-point weekend lifted
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Ashley Tate's men up a place to 5th in the league standings.
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Phantoms are sixth in the cup standings but have games in hand
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on all the teams above them bar Sheffield, MK Lightning and
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Hull. Seahawks have finished their
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qualification program. Phantoms will spend next weekend
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in Scotland as they play Solway in a pure league game on Sunday.
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In a little bit of football news and Peterborough Sports will
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attack the toughest task in National League football with
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confidence on Saturday. Sports are at leaders South
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Shields but they travel N on the back of two home wins in a row
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which have lifted the City side out of the relegation zone.
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Luka Miller struck twice after Sam Strong Brown had opened the
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scoring in A31 win over Bedford Town at Pyms Park on Tuesday
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evening. Sports boss Phil Brown admits
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his side are not yet out of trouble, but he has praised them
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for their attitude and quality over the last two games in
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cricket. Yes, cricket during the heart of
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winter and it's indoor cricket. Afford Park and AK11 are the two
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teams tied at the top after week two of the Hunts Indoor League.
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But it is AK11 who are top after they have taken more opposition
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wickets from their first two matches of the season.
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The current champions AK and the 20/23/24 champions Ufford Park
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have had a great start to the season and continued that again
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with convincing wins In the latest round of matches.
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AK stay top with a convincing 85 run win over Wansford and Ufford
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Park's 100% record continued after a 41 run win over 10 times
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Hunts Indoor League champions Breton Burley Park vented that
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it Hunts Indoor League for the first time in their history and
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after a defeat in their first match, they're off the mark at
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the second attempt with a full wicket win against Hampton.
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And we'll finish with a little bit of field hockey.
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And it was a rare bleak weekend for City of Peterborough as the
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men's and ladies first teams both tasted defeat.
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I'll discipline haunted the men as they were beaten 3 one at
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National Midlands Conference bottom club University of
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Birmingham second. On Sunday.
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The students were registering their first win of the season.
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The hosts were three nil down in 47 minutes after suffering 3
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separate yellow cards. At one point they were playing
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with 9 men because of multiple occupation of the sin Bin City
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are still a creditable 5th at the halfway stage of the season.
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They entertain a sixth placed Banbury at Bretton Gate next
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Sunday in a 2:00 PM push back, which is the last of the games
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before the Christmas break. City Ladies also lost for the
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first time in East Division 121 at 4th placed Sudbury, but they
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remain top on goal difference. It's another big game for City
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on Saturday though when third placed Norwich Dragons visit
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Bretton Gate in a 1:00 PM push back.
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The Dragons are just one point behind City.
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And those are just some of your sporting headlines this week in
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Peterborough. Well, thank you for your time
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once again. This evening you are listening
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to the PCR Sports Show here on PCR FM and we're going to be
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talking to AD Moles and Stuart George, who are two members of
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the Tommy Robinson Statute Committee.
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AD I'll bring you in straight away before we go on to talk
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about Tommy, his life and the statue that you're integral to.
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Quick chat about Peterbilt United going well under Luke
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Williams. Going very well under Luke.
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Yes indeed. Bit of a hiccup the other night.
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I think he probably in hindsight, which is a perfect
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sign, probably missed a trick. Think Garbet should have started
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and his quality beyond anything else we've got, but Stevenage
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came and did a job on us and you've got to respect that.
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As as horrible as it was to watch, I'm pretty confident that
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we we've turned a genuine corner and that corner we can carry on
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driving round or whatever expression you want to use
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tomorrow at Doncaster. Who are really, really, really
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struggling in the last 7-8, nine weeks.
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So yeah, onwards and upwards. I'm pretty, pretty confident.
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Yeah, it was. It's great start under Luke
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Williams, his tenure in terms of the results we've certainly had,
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but also those performances. You know, we think of the
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Cardiff, Wimbledon, two different performances but both
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positive results. Absolutely.
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It's it's not just getting results, it's about performances
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as well. And if you scrape one, you're
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always worried that if you don't get that luck back you're not
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going to win a game. But to beat the then league
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leaders 3 nil with relative ease.
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Talking about Stockport, it was a bit of a disappointment not to
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do the same to Stevenage, but if you'd said you're going to get 3
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points out of the six, you probably would have been quite
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happy with that before the fixture.
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And a large following making its way up the A1 tomorrow to back
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Peterbury United. Yeah, nice easy trip, great away
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day, some great, great pubs you. Wouldn't know about them though,
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would you? No, no.
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No, I only know about a dozen of them.
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Yeah, I think there's up to 2000 going up there.
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I don't know if you can pay on the day or not, but I think once
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you get there, they're not going to turn you away.
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We're all said and done. And once you've done that
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horrendous journey from the town centre to the to the stadium,
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you deserve to get in. So yeah, 2000 going out there
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would be a great be a great day. Yeah, and fingers crossed to get
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back to winning ways tomorrow. Yeah, we we really need to
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because it's a bit perverse when one minute you say it's about
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performances and results. But let's get some results
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against the teams down near the bottom of which Doncaster will
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won and then get the performances against the better
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sides where we might get something out of that we don't
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expect. So we've got a few of the lower
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teams in the next 5 or 6 weeks, so very important, yeah.
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You'd always say league is, you know, the the primary
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competition so far, but two cup games next week and a chance to
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progress certainly in the the trophy game away at Swindon.
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Yeah, it won't be easy. Swindon are pretty much top of
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the Division 2. Not an easy place to go to.
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Not a nice place to go to either, particularly Barnsley at
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home is a winnable tie. You're at home, that's all you
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ask in the cup. Be nice.
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Just do the second round, get it out of the way, get in the
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third, get a mega draw, get out. Concentrate on, well, not even
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on the league, concentrate on getting up that division.
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And those Christmas fixtures which will come thick and fast
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at the back end of December. Yeah, busy Christmas.
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Not an easy Christmas either, to be fair.
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Busy Christmas, not a time of year that we generally.
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So let's just hope that Luke can keep the good one going.
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Indeed. Brilliant.
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Thanks, AD. And that was a little catch up
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with AD moles there. Just talking all about
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Peterborough United and their resurgence now under the tenure
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of Luke Williams, right. I was going to take a short
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break and we'll be back with AD and Stuart George as we talk all
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about Tommy Robson. Welcome back.
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You are listening to the PCR Sports Show here on PCR FM for
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the start of your sporting weekend.
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Thank you for joining us. We're here every Friday between
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6:00 and 7:00, bringing you the latest from the sporting scene
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in our city of Peterborough. Tonight is no different.
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We're going to be talking all about a Peterborough United
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legend. Tommy Robson suddenly passed
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away in October 2020. And in the studio with me this
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evening, I've got AD Moles and Stuart George who are part of
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the committee leading the charge to build a statue in memory of
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the posh legend himself. AD I'll bring you in straight
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away. This is quite a crusade you're
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on at the moment, isn't it? Yes, it's a crusade that seems
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to have taken a very long time, which it has.
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It's over 5 years as you just said.
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And and initially a group, a few of us got together to get him
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some facilities at home because he got the diagnosis of motor
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neurone disease, which as he said at the time is annoying.
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They were his words to me. But it is an incredibly serious
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illness and it's incurable. And so we, we were looking at
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just getting like a ramp at home and stuff like that.
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And then obviously it kicked on. And he'd, he'd said not long
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before we'd, we'd started the Chris Turner statue thing.
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He'd said not long after that. It's surely he should be the
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first person commemorated with a statue because he'd played a lot
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more games than Chris at Posh. Well, Tommy record appearance
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Holder 559. Exactly.
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And that will never be beaten by anybody.
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And also he was a lot smaller than Chris and surely it would
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cost a lot less in bronze. So I had to put him right on
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that one. And it wasn't perhaps the answer
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he wanted, but yeah. And he was massive during the
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the Chris Turner, the CT 5 campaign, as we called it, to
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get Chris home. He was massive in that.
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Tommy was a great support in that.
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So so. You know, we'll talk about the
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fundraising that, that you've LED with the committee.
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We'll talk about his, you know, his, his life away from football
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as well with, with Stuart this evening.
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But you certainly knew him as a footballer and growing up and
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understanding the influence that he had on Peterborough United.
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Yeah, yeah, Massive. I mean, when I started, he was,
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he'd been here for probably 5 or 6 years and he was just the most
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integral part of that football team.
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Obviously, you know, Chris was an absolute legend at the back,
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but Chris relatively was a baby still.
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Yeah. He hadn't even got in the first
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team at the time. And Tommy was everything.
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Tommy was a Falcon at that football side.
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He was an out and out left winger.
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You don't see them nowadays. He literally would have chalk on
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his boots and would not come off that wing for love and the
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money. And Jim Hall was was a recipient
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of the most inaccurate crosses time after time after time.
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And Tommy had many, many skills, one of which was if he was did
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come from the inside the wing and was was fouled in the centre
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circle, we'd get a penalty out of it.
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You've just taken the words out of my mouth, you're saying about
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him hugging the touchline, shall we say?
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But certainly when he was inside that 18 yard box, he came alive,
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shall we say? He did come alive and and he'd
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many, he'd dribbled into that 18 yard box knowing that he had the
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skill to meet the players and if they blocked him in any way
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whatsoever, he was down and we got a penalty.
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But I swear I saw it on the halfway line.
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He just, and he had sort of relatively angelic face and
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would, would look up at the ref, you know, begging and the ref
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would give it their fright and centre and then realise he'd
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been done again. So yeah.
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Well, Tommy joined the Posh in 1968. 559 appearances, 128
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goals. Only teammate Jim Hall managed
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more. And no doubt Tommy created many
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of Jim Hall's goals. Yeah, Jim Hall would just make a
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run off the shoulder, Tommy would see it, and that ball
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would just turn up. And that's not a ball like they
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play with nowadays, which you could Chuck if you wanted.
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You know, that's a proper old fashioned football laces,
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etcetera, etcetera. Heavy.
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Big, heavy pitchers were absolutely woeful.
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I don't think people realise now until they look back on old
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YouTube footage quite how horrendous those pictures were.
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And he would just get it, he would get the ball in there and
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he, he, you, you cannot exaggerate how good he was.
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He really, really was such a fantastic footballer.
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You've got some wonderful memories of him as a a
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footballer, but Stuart Tommy was also known wider in the city for
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his charitable work, for his business and he was a personal
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friend of yours. Yeah, I, I followed him as a, as
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a footballer as well. I was a season ticket holder on
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Glebe Rd. when I was 12. I was mascot as well.
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So I did meet him personally, although he doesn't remember it
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obviously when I was mascot against Northampton Town in the
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late 70s. And you go in the changing room
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before the game, you get introduced to the players and,
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and the autographs. But then followed him for a few
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more years from, from the Glebe Rd. and as Eddie says, he was
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very close to me because in that Glebe roadside he was hugging
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that touchline. So he was literally 10 foot away
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from me. And he really did just hug that
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touchline, didn't he, Aidy? And then obviously sort of
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through work career, I moved away, worked in Huntingdon for
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many years, so didn't really have any contact with him at
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all. I didn't know him personally.
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And then accidentally I was running the Peugeot dealership
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for Marshalls in Peterborough and one day the receptorist came
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through. So there's a Mr. Robson to see
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he was working for the. Peterborough Herald.
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Harrington Post newspaper. And he ran the motoring section
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and the estate agency section from memory.
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And he when they said it was Tommy, obviously I sat up in my
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seat and because this guy I'd watched all my young football in
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days was sitting in front of me and we never discussed selling
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me an advert at all. We sat there for about 3 hours
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with me effectively interviewing him all about football because
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that's what I do. Starstruck.
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Yeah, I was, yeah. And he went out and forgot that
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he's meant to be there to, to, to sell me.
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That's just genuinely the case. And that was the start of, of,
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of a relationship that we had from a business perspective and,
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and ended up becoming friends effectively.
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And we started to socialize together.
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And then later on he, I employed him when he was coming towards
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the end of his working career, he joined us as a driver where
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we were collecting cars. And then the next step, I
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started my own business. And then he came to work for me
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at my business. And then it developed even
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further, went on holiday together.
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He became a firm family friend. My two kids adored him and sorry
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I'm going to have a lump him or. No, I know that's.
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Really understandable, yeah. He was a great family friend
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and, yeah, top bloke, yeah. Yeah, ADI mean, you know, you've
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talked about his footballing career there.
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You've just heard what Stuart said about Tommy.
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I mean, he was a man of the. People He really, really was.
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I remember a genuine incident. I met him at Cathedral Square
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for whatever event it was we were doing for something
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together in the Cathedral Square and we were going to walk back
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to the ground and it was just impossible.
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It it wasn't people at the event that kept him, it was every
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single person that he saw on Bridge St.
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We took bearing in mind in those days it wasn't pedestrianised.
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Cars would just stop and just get out and say hi.
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Tommy it, it was ridiculous. And now it'll be selfies,
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wouldn't it? He was a great person to work
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for you because he'd work, he'd work for me on the on the site
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one particular day if I was going away buying cars and we'd
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have 20 or 30 customers come in and every single one knew him.
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And because everyone knew him, he attracted people to to buy
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cars. I'm genuinely, it genuinely
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works. Yeah.
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So it's great. Well, both of you are on the
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Tommy Robson statue committee, leading this crusade to build a
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statue in his memory AD that would be quite an honour for the
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man. Absolutely and a well deserved 1
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and and we're calling it bringing Tommy home and we know
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he's not a beatable boy born and bred, but you know, a lot, a lot
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of people aren't, are big in this city.
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But he's been with us longer than anybody else.
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And, you know, when he left the football club as a player, he
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was a coach, he ran the youth team, He's done charity work
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alongside the football club for decades.
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He's just done so many different things.
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And like I say, we called it bringing Tommy home.
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And that's how it feels to us, you know, as much as it did with
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Chris. And they were really, really
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close friends as well. So to get them there together at
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the old ground before, who knows, if ever one day we leave
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that ground, who knows We've got them both at home for a period
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of time and that's going to be fantastic.
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You just mentioned there, you know, man of the people, for
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example, I mean Tommy was quoted back in spring 2020 to say that
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Peterborough has been my life for more than 50 years and that
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was when the he was honoured with the freedom of the city,
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Peterborough's highest honour. I mean that that says everything
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about the man, not just from a footballing perspective but what
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he was known for in the city. Yeah, absolutely.
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And it was a shame at that time, you know, it was middle of
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lockdown etcetera. He wasn't very well and all
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these that you know could have been done earlier.
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I'm not not people in the actual honour because it is an
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incredible honour and he deserved it.
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But sadly at those times, everything was was not the way
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it should have been and it wasn't as we would wanted it to
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have been. And obviously when he became
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seriously ill, nobody could go and see him.
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I saw him when he was first poorly went to see him quite a
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lot. And the downhill slope was
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horrendously upsetting, really was.
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But yeah, to have that honour well deserved.
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And as as they said at the time, and Councillor John Fox at the
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time, I think was was integral in getting in the award.
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And they knew each other very well.
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And, you know, he said some very kind things about Tommy that
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that that we all knew. And, yeah.
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And and the word legend, to be a legend in a sport is amazing,
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however local that may be. To be a legend in a city for
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more than one thing is a very rare thing, certainly in this
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city. So yeah, I think it's that's why
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it's been, although it's taken a long time, that's no reflection
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of Tommy. The time has been taken because
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of circumstances. Out of the.
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Control of the committee. The Tommy, the the Chris Turner
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thing was very much easier. Cash was king in those days and
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etcetera, etcetera. But this has made it just as
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worthwhile for it being so much hard work and an awful lot of
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people outside the football world have contributed to
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towards the fund, which is pleasing.
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Wonderful. And we'll hear a little bit
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about that from Stuart just after these messages.
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Good evening and welcome back to the PCR Sports Show here on PCR
20:29
FM Thank you for joining us this evening.
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If you have missed any of the show, you can listen back to us
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again via the website whichispcrfm.co.uk and just hit
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the listen again button tonight. We're talking all about the
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legend Tommy Robson, Peterborough United player for
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many a year, 559 appearances, 128 goals.
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But he was more than just a footballer in this city, he was
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also very integral in the business world and created many
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a friendship, one of which was with Stuart George, who's in the
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studio with us this evening and part of the committee formed and
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helping to fundraise for the statue in memory of the posh
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legend. He meant a lot to you, Stuart,
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and now you're part of the committee to help build this
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statue in his memory and you've been putting on some fundraising
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events. But on a personal note, how does
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it feel to be part of something that'll honour the great man
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himself? Amazing.
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I mean, obviously I, I, I decided I wanted to do some
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fundraising myself when I heard AD was setting up a committee
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and, and going to try and raise money for the statute.
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And then obviously AD kindly invited me to sort of join the
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task force as such. And we've had, I've had three
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disco nights over the last couple of years and we've held
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him at the Parkway Sports and Social Club in Peterborough with
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quite a large capacity. It holds of 300 people.
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And we've managed to sell out on all three so far or virtually
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sell out on all three. And then last year with Steve
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Collins, the ex Posh player was also a good friend of ours, We
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organized APW United reunion at Stanford Football Club.
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So those four events so far have raised a reasonable sum of
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money. I'm not sure exactly how much
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about. £18,000 I will say that's Stuart because that's, you know,
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one head of an effort that you've LED.
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And we've also got another one planned on the 28th of February
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next year. Well, we're running the the
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successful formula that we've done over the last three and
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hoping that we will raise another large sum of money
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again. So yeah, looking forward to it.
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But yeah, it's, it's, it's great to be part of the team.
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Everyone obviously contributes. It's not just me that everyone
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has pulled their weight and done their bit.
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So yeah, I can't wait to get to the end now.
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I know in that moment when when Tommy is unveiled, it'll be a
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proud moment for just a committee in this city as well.
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But there's a little bit of work to go before we get to that
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stage, though fundraising is going well.
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It's been going very well and it's been going well for quite a
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long time as as we referred referred to earlier on.
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But we can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
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So we, we think it's very difficult to be exact, but we
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think we need around about 140K all together and we're on about
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115 at the moment. We have already commissioned the
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sculptor, A lad called Shawn Hedges Quinn who who is an
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amazing artist. He did Chris and I think
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everybody's absolutely delighted what he did with Chris.
23:44
He's done many sporting statues all over the country for massive
23:49
clubs and he's actual doing the magic massive project soon for
23:53
the FA at Wembley. But he's very kindly squeezing,
23:56
squeezing us in where we can and touch word, fingers crossed,
24:01
etcetera, etcetera. Early new year we should be able
24:05
to go over and see him at his workshop and see the semi
24:11
finished project product, make any changes that need to be made
24:15
And then a few months after that he'll go down to be bronzed and
24:20
then the stuff gets real. And in the meantime, there's
24:24
also a lot of expenditure going to come up about.
24:26
Fundraising has to continue. Just because he's been
24:28
commissioned. There is still an urgency, a
24:30
need to make sure the fundraising continues over the
24:33
next 12 months effectively. Absolutely.
24:35
Without going into every single thing, it's Groundworks.
24:38
You've got to get those sussed out.
24:39
You have to get in layman's terms, an X-ray machine on top
24:43
of that land to see that it can take the plinth etcetera, work
24:47
out exactly where he's going to go in relation to to the
24:50
football ground and where he's going to be.
24:52
We want him home. We've got an idea where we want
24:55
him. Chris is in a fantastic
24:57
position. The position we're thinking of
24:59
is just as good. It would be amazing.
25:01
Then you've got all lighting architect plans, groundworks for
25:06
the for the plinth itself. I mean, there's.
25:09
Ongoing maintenance. Ongoing maintenance which
25:11
obviously we find with Chris every so often we need to find a
25:14
bit more money. Absolutely determined we will
25:18
get there and and fully certain that we will get there because
25:21
the goodwill is there. One of the biggest goodwill
25:24
things of all is a part of the whole fundraising has been ATR
25:30
11 we've called it, where I think it's 60 odd.
25:33
Maybe 70 people have joined that way back when, maybe you said
25:38
2020, probably not long after that and have made a commitment
25:42
of paying £11.00 per month, which doesn't sound a lot, but
25:46
for five years is a great commitment and that is a massive
25:50
amount of the fundraising. Yeah, we're around £36,000.
25:55
There you go, you know. That's a huge, that's a huge
25:58
commitment. From those individuals,
25:59
incidentally, examples of Sean's work can be seen on our Facebook
26:03
page because we've got a Tommy Robson statue Facebook page.
26:06
So if anyone wants to have a look at the type of work he's
26:09
done, he's done. What's Bobby Robson, Bob Stoko,
26:13
Kevin Beatty. So yeah, some real good ones.
26:16
Yeah, Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
26:18
And, and Sean's really keen on this.
26:19
We had a great experience working with Sean when we did
26:22
Chris, and soon as I put him up for this, he was absolutely
26:26
Jocca busy and just said there's no way I can squeeze it in.
26:30
And two minutes later, while we chatted about how good the Chris
26:32
thing was, he went all right, all right.
26:34
So, you know, he's finding us a space where we can, which is
26:38
brilliant because he is the best of the best.
26:39
Sounds like you sold it to him maybe?
26:41
I well, yeah, I did send it to him and fluttered my eyelashes
26:45
and what have you. But yeah, we've got the best of
26:48
the best. We've got a fantastic committee
26:49
and and some of the support from around the city has been
26:53
absolutely amazing. Really is too many names to
26:56
mention as such, but people have put on their own functions.
27:01
So Steph, Papa Luigi, for example, he's put on a few
27:06
Northern Soul nights in particular and funk and soul
27:09
nights and everything at the same venue as Stuart uses, which
27:13
is a fantastic venue and donated all the money to that as well.
27:17
So there's, there's been some amazing support and literally
27:21
you can go back to to being a bit romantic about it all, but
27:24
literally kids emptying their their pocket money and stuff
27:27
like that. Edwin Overland as well, didn't.
27:29
We Edwin Overland very kindly. He was a big friend of Tommy.
27:32
'S big friend of Tommy's. And when he was very poorly, he
27:36
got in touch effectively himself via his via his sister at the
27:40
time and said that he changed, actually changed his will from
27:43
donating the money that had been raised from a project that he
27:47
did previous to him passing away.
27:51
Donated it to Tommy instead of to where it was going to go,
27:54
which was like an incredible thing.
27:56
He used to do commentary with Tommy.
27:57
Yes, he did. Yeah, they went back a very long
27:59
way. Just one of many Tommy's great
28:02
fun. Yeah, you know the relationships
28:03
that he had. He was also a Co commentator for
28:06
for PGB United games as well which you know just shows what
28:10
he was involved with in different.
28:12
Concepts. He loved doing the commentary.
28:14
He really did, yeah. Yeah, and from a fundraising
28:17
perspective, you've talked about, you know, the the music
28:20
events that have been put on, for example, the TR11 scheme
28:23
that's running. And I'm sure you're very
28:25
grateful too for that commitment from those members.
28:29
But the Shed, for example, the new tap room and deli down at
28:33
Fletton Keys, they've they named a tipple after him as well.
28:37
They. Did Tommy's Tipple, which was
28:39
about a year ago, went really, really well and Dave did tell me
28:43
the other day that they had, they want to go and do that
28:45
soon. So they'll have a whole month of
28:48
Tommy Tipple events, as it were, and they get some amazing
28:51
attendances from their Thursday, Friday, Saturday, music nights
28:55
and all day on a Sunday. So that should boost things as
28:58
well. There are lots of little, little
29:02
things planned. I don't know if we want to go
29:05
into the thing we've got planned next May, which we I'm being
29:09
told no at the moment, but I'm sure that will will allow us to
29:12
do that at a later stage. But there is one big event that
29:16
we would like to do, maybe to put it all to bed.
29:18
But in the meantime, if anybody's got any ideas and they
29:21
would like to contribute, just run it by us.
29:23
Not that we would say no, but just that we can give our full
29:26
support via the website and via the Facebook page.
29:31
Those social media access is always there if anybody wants to
29:35
put anything on. If they've got any pictures of
29:37
them with Tommy, we'll add them on to it.
29:39
It's not a problem. Yeah, so just picking up all the
29:41
pictures, Stuart, you were saying this week that you found
29:44
a picture of Tommy when he played Chelsea.
29:46
Well, I sort of help with the Facebook page and I'm trying to
29:52
find some older photographs of Tom and I can find individual
29:55
photographs of Tommy playing for Chelsea, but no team photos.
29:59
And one of the reasons, I guess is you didn't spend that long at
30:02
Chelsea because he was very poorly while he was there.
30:04
But I wrote to Chelsea on Friday, I think it was last
30:08
week, and they kindly wrote back yesterday or e-mail back
30:12
yesterday, and they'd found one team photo that he was he was
30:17
on. Yeah.
30:17
Which they sent through. So yeah, very good.
30:19
Yeah, very pleased. It's great.
30:20
They also sent me a shirt last year when I did one of the
30:24
discos. They sent me a Chelsea sent me a
30:26
science shirt of all their current first team squad which
30:29
we auctioned and obviously that helped raise some of the funds
30:31
towards the evening, yeah. Yeah, and it's those
30:33
relationships, you know, we've talked about Tommy from a
30:35
Peterborough and a Peterborough United perspective, but you
30:38
know, he was up at Newcastle United, Chelsea.
30:43
He's got those relationships in other parts of the country as
30:45
well, which have helped with the fundraising and raising the
30:50
funds that are needed. Yeah, I mean, a new Chelsea
30:53
always used to send him a hamper every Christmas, even though he
30:56
only played a short period of time there.
30:58
They used to send him a hamper every Christmas.
31:00
They invited him to a game every year, every season.
31:03
Sorry, with with a family member or friend, with with
31:05
hospitality. Newcastle did the same as well.
31:09
So yeah, I had a good relationship with everybody.
31:11
Yeah, well, as everybody knows, you know, everybody loved him.
31:14
He had a he had a such a nice, kind person.
31:17
You could not like him. No, indeed.
31:20
The. Posh Supporters Trust as well
31:22
made a donation this week I was seeing on social media.
31:24
The The Posh Supporters Trust had been absolutely amazing.
31:27
So they'd already donated his 5000 lbs at the beginning of the
31:31
project. And then two of their members
31:36
had got together and seen Tommy before he passed away and
31:40
obviously before he passed away, but before he was too seriously
31:43
ill. And put a fantastic book
31:45
together, which is still available, which will be on is
31:49
on our website and also will be on the Facebook page.
31:51
We'll put a link to that. And it was just basically a
31:55
conversation with Tommy. So it wasn't, you know,
31:58
autobiography as such. It was just a chat with Tommy
32:01
about his life. He's gone through a lot of hell
32:05
when he was when he was young with, with illness and then got
32:08
through that to become a professional footballer.
32:10
Just about every boy's dream. And it's a really, really good
32:14
book. And then they've recently just
32:15
donated another 5000 lbs from that, which is incredible.
32:20
So the supporters Trust have always been good supporters of
32:23
of this and CT 5 and obviously the club themselves, the club
32:26
themselves that have put themselves out for us.
32:29
Dara's been very generous, the Chairman taking us up to the to
32:35
the mark that we wanted to be when we were struggling a little
32:37
bit a few months ago or about 8 months ago.
32:40
And they'll always move stuff around for us and allow us to
32:43
hold functions, etcetera. So again, as Stuart said, just a
32:49
a mark of how popular Tommy is. Yeah.
32:51
And as much as you 2 are part of this committee, this is very
32:54
much something that you're leading on to help build this
33:00
statue for the people of Peterborough.
33:02
Well, we used a cliche for the Chris, for the fans, by the
33:06
fans. I would say this is even more
33:09
for the city by the city because he was more than just Chris was
33:13
as well. Don't get me wrong.
33:14
Yeah, but Tommy, you know, really, really was a part of the
33:17
city in such a massive part apart from the football.
33:21
So his charity work alone is, it was just incredible and it was
33:26
based around in and around football, you know.
33:29
But yeah, you've raised thousands of pounds for the
33:31
children's board at the former City Hospital, you know, through
33:33
his Peterborough Legends football team example.
33:36
Absolutely yeah and and that was you know something he did off
33:40
his own back and then being Tommy came up with the idea and
33:42
then went help. I need support and I know piece
33:45
of 2000, we sponsored the shirt for about four or five years,
33:49
which was a great thing to do, which we love to do.
33:51
And and I and I think that the a slogan, if you like, is we're
33:57
happy to lead this, but we're happy to be LED as well.
34:00
So if anybody comes up with ideas, just tell us and and we
34:03
will back it and we will support it.
34:05
We'll attend it. We'll do whatever we can do.
34:08
If it involves they want something to do with the
34:10
football club, then we'll do that as well.
34:11
So, you know, we can be that link between anything that
34:15
anybody else can think of because we think we've we've
34:18
battered our brains pretty much together to get every kind of
34:21
function that we can think of together.
34:24
And if there's a new one out there, then then you send it to
34:26
us. Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
34:28
Right, it's going to take another very short break and
34:30
we'll be back with Stuart and AD after these messages.
34:34
Good evening. Welcome back to the PCR Sports
34:36
Show. If you have missed any of the
34:38
show this evening, you can listen back to us via the PCR FM
34:42
website whichispcrfm.co.uk and just hit the Listen again
34:47
button. We've got Stuart George and Adie
34:51
Moles in the studio with us this evening and we've been talking
34:55
all about Tommy Robson, the great Peterborough United Legend
34:58
record appearance holder at 559, 128 goals.
35:02
But he was more than a football player for the club.
35:06
He did many a good work in and around the city, including
35:10
raising thousands of pounds for a children's ward at the citys
35:13
former hospital through the Peterborough Legends football
35:17
team that he formed a number of years ago.
35:21
Sadly passed away in October 2020 and since then AD Moles and
35:26
the Tommy Rodson Statute Committee have been on a mission
35:31
to raise the money to build a statue in his honour to be
35:34
erected at his home ground of Peterborough United.
35:38
In due course. AD fundraising's going well.
35:43
There's always a need for more that you've discussed thought
35:48
process in terms of what do you think's left to raise?
35:52
And perhaps not a a specific figure because we know things
35:56
can change, but where would you like to get to?
35:59
I'd I'd like to get to too much which, which you know, is too
36:02
far away because there's an awful lot of good stuff that we
36:06
could do with any extra. There'd always be ongoing
36:08
maintenance. The club had been fantastic with
36:12
Chris and I'm sure they would be no less fantastic with Tommy,
36:16
but it would be nice for us to be able to to manage that side
36:20
of things ourselves as well. So I think the 140 mark is more
36:27
than doable. I think if we got anything above
36:29
that then we would find A use for it and I think we've learnt
36:33
a lot of lessons from Chris. So we we maybe went over the top
36:37
with the lighting for example. It's too complicated.
36:40
You only really need blue. We play in blue, we are blue,
36:44
that's what we do. Why did we have all those
36:46
different other colours at the time?
36:47
It looked fantastic. It was donated for nothing.
36:50
But as a lesson to be learnt, some of the ground works around
36:55
in and around could have been better.
36:57
We've learned that lesson and we've improved it at Chris as
36:59
well. So yeah, that's nothing is as
37:02
cheap as it was even 5-6 years ago when we did Chris.
37:06
Everything is more, everything is more expensive.
37:10
So, yeah, we are so grateful for everybody starting with, you
37:16
know, TR 11 people who joined it on that first ever month at that
37:20
opening night all those years ago in the library, in the
37:23
museum, and Lynn as well. Wasn't that Lynn and Lynn, Lynn
37:26
Turner, who made it an amazingly generous contribution from what
37:31
we'd raised for the Chris Turner statue, What was left?
37:33
She was more than happy to donate that money.
37:36
So thank you. Good shout.
37:38
She obviously was great friends with Tommy as well.
37:41
So she's been a part of this from the very beginning.
37:45
So, you know, we would like to call ourselves a family and
37:47
everybody says that. And if the football club itself
37:49
is our family, then obviously, you know, Tommy and Chris are
37:54
our family too. And we want to make sure that we
37:56
honour, we've already honoured Chris in the best way we
37:59
possibly could and we'll do the same for Tommy.
38:02
Stuart, you've got a fundraising event coming up in February.
38:06
You've run many a successful one in the past 18 months or so, but
38:11
another one coming up. Yeah, February the 28th,
38:14
Peterborough Parkway Sports and Social Club.
38:16
It's a great venue because it holds, you know, a large amount
38:20
of people, which is quite difficult to get a big haul.
38:22
So yeah, we've sold 167 tickets so far in the sort of first two
38:28
weeks. So we're on track to sell out
38:30
again. So tickets are obviously
38:33
available for myself. We're advertising on social
38:36
media, on the Facebook page, the Tommy Robson statue Facebook
38:39
page, which if anyone's not a a follower of that, when I'd I'd
38:43
urge you to. Lots of interesting information
38:46
on Tom's career and all the latest events and functions that
38:50
we've got going on are all advertised on there.
38:53
And, you know, we'll have a number of events coming up in
38:55
the new year as well, which will interest all different types of
38:58
people, I'm sure. And also just sort of Tommy's
39:01
background as well. For those younger fans that
39:04
didn't know Tommy, you've done a lot of work in making sure that
39:08
message gets out there. Yeah, I think sort of working
39:12
with Tom for long hours and being a bit of a football freak,
39:17
stroke Stato, you know, I learnt quite a lot.
39:21
I mean, actual fact. I mean, I remember going to
39:23
Whittlesey one night, I think it was for some Rotary Club and
39:27
they'd asked him. It was his first, first time.
39:29
I don't think he did many, but he did one of his first times
39:31
he's after dinner speaking. So we had a meal and he, he
39:37
started telling the stories and and I, I did actually think that
39:40
either I could probably have stood up and done a better job
39:43
because I'd heard these stories so many times.
39:45
I think I could tell the story better than he could.
39:48
You know, it was great. I mean, sometimes you tell me a
39:50
story at work and you know, I'd heard it so many times that, you
39:54
know, I knew I knew it better than him.
39:55
So. So many anecdotes.
39:57
Yeah, you've got him as well. We went Holly's a Cyprus and we
40:00
went in a restaurant and you know he got talking to the
40:03
people sitting the opposite side of the table.
40:04
They found out he was a footballer and he moved his
40:06
chair and sat with them and left me on me, on me own.
40:08
You know, it was just everyone just fell in love with him.
40:11
He was great. Brilliant, right?
40:13
If you want to do find out more information about the campaign
40:17
that's ongoing at the moment, you can go to the website which
40:19
is the Tommy Robson statute.co.uk as Stuart has
40:25
mentioned there. There is also a Facebook page
40:26
and you'll find that underneath the Tommy Robson Statute, you'll
40:30
find all the information there. There'll be contact details on
40:32
there as well to get hold of the committee and share what you'd
40:36
like to do to support getting Tommy back home to London Road
40:41
and a statue in his honour. AD Thank you very much for your
40:46
time this evening. Thank you for your background on
40:50
Tommy, his footballing career. You know, we could talk about
40:53
him for hours. I mean I've got so many notes,
40:55
you know, we could spend hours talking about Tommy and his
40:57
stories from a footballing perspective.
40:59
And I know Stuart, you've had many a story of working with him
41:02
professionally and personally as well.
41:04
So wish you all the best. Do keep us informed and as
41:10
events come on board, then do let us know.
41:12
We'll give them a plug here on PCR Sports as well.
41:16
Thank you very. Much time this evening.
41:18
Thank you. Brilliant.
41:19
Well, thank you for listening once again, thank you for your
41:21
time. We'll be back next Friday
41:24
evening here on the PCR Sports show at 6:00.
41:27
But whatever your plans this weekend, whether you're
41:30
travelling up to Doncaster to watch Peterborough United have a
41:34
safe trip, whatever sport you're involved, whether you're
41:36
volunteering, playing or spectating, we do wish you a
41:39
very successful and winning weekend.