Unheralded Robins merits big-time shot

Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

RICHARD Keys, the former Sky Sports presenter, sparked much online hilarity when he advocated Mark Robins for the Manchester United job last season. Needless to say, the Old Trafford hierarchy did not go cap in hand to Coventry, but the suggestion wasn’t as ridiculous as it sounded. Robins will never get a big job. He’s too old. Too English. Too unfashionable. With his flat cap and hangdog demeanour, he looks - and sounds - more like an extra from Last of the Summer Wine than the sort of character who’ll beam from Chines...

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