On the bus he'd say 'come on you little Scottish so and so sit beside me'; he'd be playing cards and I'd be his banker. If we start off with a win against Millwall next and keep everything going, lifting the spirit and keeping it up, then we will get there," said former central defender Robertson.

Ally Robertson, John Wile, Derek Statham - who travels over at least once a year from Spain - and Ally Brown or Len Cantello put forward their argument that it’s not just about winning but entertaining. But, to be fair, from where we were earlier in the season to still have a shot on the final day is good work from the head coach and the team. We got on well. There was a period in that season when we were both injured and we spent our days together in the gym.There’s nobody to me that stands out in the Championship this season. If we can get on another run we can get into the play-offs or even the top two places. That was also the season Albion replaced Manchester United-bound Ron Atkinson with the wrong manager. West Brom interviewed Ronnie Allen and Alan Mullery. Raven and Daryl Burgess, linchpins of the defence throughout the 1990s, are as good a servants to the association as they were to the team. Robertson took the place of the injured John Kaye in the team. But he says Kaye was a huge inspiration to him throughout his career.

We would love to see Chris Brunt and James Morrison take their place on our books when their time in the middle comes to an end. But the disappointment only lasted a year, because next season Wolves went up as champions and completed the double when they won the Sherpa Van Trophy. Wembley winner But after a misunderstanding on a telephone call in pre-season, during which Robertson unwittingly swore at Saunders, the Baggies boss paid up his contract. Joining the likes of Carl Ikeme, Kenny Hibbitt and David Kelly as inductees into Old Gold Club, sponsored by Wolverhampton Building Supplies, Robertson will speak about captaining the successful Wolves side of the late 80s while on the podcast.Steve Bull joined the tributes to Cyrille Regis, describing his former Wolves team-mate as “a man and a player I looked up to”. There wasn’t a single centre-half who liked playing against him. It remains ridiculous that he only won five England caps, even though there were quite a few decent forwards around at the time.” Robertson joined West Bromwich Albion as an apprentice in July 1968 and turned professional in September 1969. [1] He remained with the club until 1986, making over 500 appearances in the heart of the team's defence and playing under managers such as Alan Ashman, Don Howe, Johnny Giles, Ronnie Allen, Ron Atkinson, Ron Wylie, Nobby Stiles and Ron Saunders. The club spent all but three seasons in the top flight during his playing days. A tough defender, he held in high regard by the club's fans. However, he never won a Scotland cap. We can be disappointed to see him go while also knowing it probably has helped the club in the financial position that we are in,” wrote Robertson, via Express & Star.

Time may have not been too kind to waist lines or hair lines but to the fan they are as tall and as bronzed and as muscled as the day they wore the striped shirt. The older generation will move on and the middle men will move up. We will need a younger generation of member or the whole thing will eventually come to an end.” We knew what each other were going to do the minute we walked out on the park, we never had to talk to each other." Slowly the team broke up. Atkinson went to Manchester United and took Robson with him. Cunningham was sold to Real Madrid after the winger demolished Valencia in the UEFA Cup. O’Shea came through the ranks of the club’s youth academy, but has moved on to the Premier League following the team’s ninth place finish in the second tier last season.Steve Bull scored a whopping 52 goals that season and next year the team topped Division Three as champions too. When I joined Albion in early 1978, I’d heard stories about John Giles, who was regarded as a Messiah, and Ronnie Allen who was referred to as a joke. At the writers conference, I interviewed Ally Robertson, editor with The Wild Rose Press and suspense author. She is a wealth of information since she works on the editing side as well as the writing side. I learned so many tidbits on how to improve my manuscript from just a brief conversation with her. Before I share the interview, here is her biography. Bio