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Bobby Robson’s passing was an event charitably marked by the soccer world. He left the world at 76 as one of the major coaches in the world with a CV as impressive as any.

While his two heroic World Cup exits dominated most of the obituaries, his achievements in coaching winning teams in four countries are to my mind his greatest. England is traditionally insular when it comes to the great game it invented and during most of Robson’s tenure in charge of the national team, its club sides were banned from European competition, entrenching the cultural divide.

So Bobby’s sexagenarian odyssey through Eindhoven, Lisbon, Oporto, Barcelona and Eindhoven again was unique among his Anglo contemporaries. He was born and died a Geordie but secured his place in the manager hall of fame from this exceptional continental interlude in the last quarter of his life. In the first half of the twentieth century a host of English coaches had sailed from Dover to spread the soccer word but come the 1980s there were few working overseas and most of them in the Iberian peninsula such as Malcolm Allison and Terry Venables. Since then, the only Englishman with a comparable international resume would be Roy Hodgson.

Robson was dyed-in-the-wool Judi Slot English before his grand tour and his only overseas playing and coaching experience was with Vancouver in the NASL in 1967-’68. Action for England in the 1958 World Cup followed, plus a glorious UEFA Cup triumph with Ipswich in 1981, but Robson was still regarded as tactically stubborn and too ‘English’ throughout the 1990 World Cup and even when he announced that joining PSV would “complete my footballing education.”

The Dutch tradition of collectivism in the dressing room came as a culture shock to a man used to the manager being the boss, but two titles followed in Holland, a feat he repeated with Porto in Portugal. I recall watching Robson in action as Barcelona coach when Ronaldo scored a hat-trick at Atletico Madrid. He had an unenviable task replacing Johan Cruyff, and …

Online poker has often been featured in the list of factors which have contributed to the rise of interest in the game- particularly in terms of tournaments, as online players have started to enter the arena of the professional- and crucially Togel Online have started to win.

While commentators have made much of and rejoiced in the new momentum poker is enjoying one of the hands that fed and is now reaping new rewards. Figures recently published recently have exhibited just how much this game in the online casino arsenal is gaining from the hype. Specifically, the statistic that sums up just what a Togel Online phenomenon is taking place is this- that the online poker industry has grown by 700% in the last year.

In any industry, such a rate of growth would be at once unimaginable and way beyond any realistic, yet ambitious, goals. It is now online poker’s turn to have endless lists of causes for this new cult movement, attempting to explain why so many people are now playing judi slot game online. After spending the last year being listed as a reason for land based poker’s revival, this is now being inverted as lists now appear citing the land based version being one of several factors to contribute to this outstanding performance of the online arm of the game.

Other contributing, and necessary factors are: the development of technology, the television coverage of the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel in the US, celebrity endorsement and, as the industry has grown, the now expanding range and availability of games, and the accompanying coverage and promotion employed.

This could all just be a case of good timing, extraordinary luck, that all the pieces were in place and came together at the same time, to create an online sensation. Whilst this commentator was reading up on the industry however, one factor seemed to recur in all the articles and musings written. If a point in time, or one factor was to be pinpointed to explain such a boom period it …