You do not live a life like Sir Bob Murray’s without collecting a few nicknames.
To some, he is ‘Mr Sunderland’ after 20 years spent as their owner. To others, he is ‘Bob the Builder’, the man who built the Stadium of Light and Academy of Light as well as delivering Wembley Stadium and St George’s Park for the FA.
This 77-year-old from the County Durham town of Consett has been busy, even entering the cockney rhyming vocabulary of London cabbies who say ‘in a Bob Murray’ to mean ‘in a hurry’.
To West Yorkshire Police in 1979, however, he had another nickname.