Official Site of Man U · Apr 18, 2024
Opinion: A Mark of respect
For some, Mark Robins will always be the man who kept Alex Ferguson in a job and, therefore, enabled Manchester United to enjoy the most glorious of periods under the Scot's tenure.
Whether that is true has always been open to debate and it's something former chairman Martin Edwards has vehemently denied, as he did again when we spoke to him a few years ago.
Yet there was more to Robins's United career than that in any case. It was not like he arrived on the scene, scored a famous goal and did nothing else.
The homegrown forward rose up through the ranks with a reputation as a prolific goalscorer and there was quite the buzz around him when he made his senior debut in October 1988.
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