George Robledo

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    Anyone that still remembers him will be in their mid-eighties at the very least.

    My Grandad used to recount stories about him, Blanchflower, Baxter, Taylor et al. The 1949 side must have been the equivalent, if not better, than the early Eighties side.
     
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    I used to work with a young Chilean guy in Palo Alto, and I brought the subject of the brothers up with him. He didn't remember their names (before his time), but he remembered his Dad talking about them.
     
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    There's blue plaque on the side of their old house in West Melton which I think is a nice touch
     
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    Not on the foreign front.
    But I wonder how many know about the goalscoring record of Brian Clough.
    251 in 274 games. Seriously injured at the age of 29. Ending his career as a footballer.
     
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    I certainly didn’t know that the cover of Lennon’s ‘Walls And Bridges’ album is a print of Lennon’s school boy painting of Robledo’s winning goal for Newcastle in the 1952 cup final against Arsenal. Apparently so.
     
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    Wonder whatever happened to him……
     
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    My Dad used to talk about the Robledo brothers. He watched them as a youngster. We had come great players back then. George is featured in the excellent Oakwell Centurions book.
     
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    I heard that Newcastle wanted George, but he wouldn’t go without his brother, so they took them both and both played for them. My dad said George went to Wombwell feast and there was an attraction where you put a football through a hole in a wall and the bloke stopped him after he did it three times. This was at a time when everybody thought British football was best, until The Mighty Magyars and Real Madrid showed us different. We arrogantly thought that we were the best and the great Brazilian, Italian, German, Argentinian and Dutch sides were still to come. It was a simpler game then. I saw George Best and I saw Pele.
     
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    Was once in ibiza talking to an old Geordie, he said you can have gazza, shearer and Beardsley, best players ever to play for Newcastle were the robledo brothers
     
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    was one of my Dad's best mate -he said he was a football genious
     
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