Paul Robinson (goalkeeper)
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| Paul Robinson | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Paul William Robinson | |
| Date of birth | 15 October 1979 | |
| Place of birth | Beverley, England | |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1] | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Blackburn Rovers | |
| Number | 1 | |
| Youth career | ||
| 1996–1998 | Leeds United | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998–2004 2004–2008 2008– |
Leeds United Tottenham Hotspur Blackburn Rovers |
95 (0) 137 (1) 35 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2003– | England | 41 (0) |
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Paul William Robinson (born 15 October 1979 in Beverley,[2] East Riding of Yorkshire) is an English football goalkeeper who plays for Blackburn Rovers.
He joined Leeds United at 16 years of age, where he played 95 league games and also scored a goal in a League Cup tie. In 2004, following Leeds' relegation from the Premier League, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur. He played 137 games with Spurs, scoring another goal, before he was signed by Blackburn Rovers in 2008. He has also earned more than 40 caps for his country.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Leeds United
Having come through the youth ranks at Leeds United, Robinson made his debut against Chelsea in 1998, keeping a clean sheet. In the 2003-04 season he scored his first professional goal against Swindon Town in the closing moments of a League Cup game, forcing extra time. The game went to penalties, one of which was saved by Robinson (Swindon missed another penalty, hitting the post) to help his team to victory.[3] In the Premier league, he conceded 77 goals in 36 games.[4] Despite this somewhat dubious record Tottenham Hotspur's Director of Football David Pleat was not dissuaded in his pursuit of Robinson as he had played well throughout the season.
[edit] Tottenham Hotspur
Robinson transferred to Tottenham Hotspur in May, 2004, for a fee of £1,500,000.
On March 17, 2007, Robinson scored the second goal of his professional career, in a Premier League game against Watford at White Hart Lane. He took a free-kick from just outside of his own penalty area (85 metres, or 93 yards from the opposition goal) and the ball bounced over the head of Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster, and into goal.[5] He became the third goalkeeper in Premier League history (excluding own goals) to score after Peter Schmeichel for Aston Villa in 2001 and Brad Friedel for Blackburn Rovers in 2004, although of the three only Robinson's team went on to win the match. He was also the third goalscoring goalkeeper in English professional football in the 2006-07 season, following goals from Gavin Ward for Tranmere Rovers and Mark Crossley for Sheffield Wednesday.
Robinson captained the team in their 1-0 Football League Cup quarter-final win over Southend United,[6] and in their 0-0 FA Cup third round draw at Cardiff City as Ledley King and Robbie Keane were both injured.[7]
His form suffered for club and country and Spurs dropped him in favour of Radek Cerny. However Robinson regained his place and collected the first major trophy of his career in Tottenham's 2-1 victory over Chelsea in the 2008 League Cup final.[8]
[edit] Blackburn Rovers
He joined Blackburn Rovers on 25 July 2008, for a fee of £3.5 million on a five-year deal, making him Paul Ince's first signing at the club.[9] On July 29, it was confirmed during an interview that he would be wearing the No.1 jersey left behind by the departure of Brad Friedel. On 30 July, he made his Blackburn Rovers debut in a 2–1 victory against Northwich Victoria in a pre-season friendly. He is currently the first choice goalkeeper.
[edit] International career
Robinson has played 41 times for England. He was part of the Euro 2004 squad, as understudy to David James, making no appearances in the tournament. In the subsequent qualifying campaign for the 2006 World Cup he replaced James as England's first choice goalkeeper.
At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Robinson was named in England's World Cup squad for the finals in Germany and was an ever present in England's campaign, keeping clean sheets in four out of five games that he played. He conceded no goals to Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago during the group stage. However, in spite of his clean sheet tally he was also criticised for being very indecisive on crosses, missing three against Trinidad and Tobago. After the opening World Cup game against Paraguay, when his counterpart Justo Villar was injured 7 minutes into the match, ending his tournament early, Robinson sent Villar his gloves as a gesture of good will after England won 1-0.[10] During the knockout rounds, he kept clean sheets against Ecuador in the round of 16 and Portugal in the quarter-finals, although the latter prevailed 3-1 in the penalty shoot-out to end England's campaign.
On 11 October, 2006, during a Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia, an unexpected bobble on a backpass from Gary Neville caused Robinson to miss the ball completely as he tried to clear it out of the penalty area, resulting in an own goal to put Croatia 2-0 up.[11] Robinson later described the incident as a freak.[12] On 22 August, 2007, Robinson made a mistake to gift Germany their first goal in England's first loss at the new Wembley Stadium, with a final scoreline of 2-1. He was substituted at half-time by James.[13]
After a 2-1 loss to Russia in Euro 2008 qualifying, in which Robinson palmed a shot into the path of Russian forward Roman Pavlyuchenko's path to allow the winner, manager Steve McClaren dropped Robinson for the final qualifying match against Croatia in November, replacing him with Scott Carson.[14]
[edit] Return to England
Robinson was called back into the England squad in 2009 for 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhsatan and Andorra because regular keeper David James was injured. After Robinsons big mistake in a qualifier for Euro 2008 against Croatia he was not picked for 2 years. It was Robinsons first call up under Fabio Capello since he took charge. For the Kazakhstan game he was put was placed as a sub after West Ham United keeper, Robert Green. Sadly, he was not used.
[edit] Personal life
Paul Robinson was born at the Beverley Westwood hospital and attended Beverley Grammar School in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Whilst playing for Leeds he moved to a mansion in the famous village of Stamford Bridge. He is married to Rebecca, his childhood sweetheart. The couple currently live in North-West London with their daughter Lucy May and son, Jack, born 14 January 2008.
On 4 September, 2005, burglars raided his mansion while he was in Cardiff for the 2006 World Cup qualifier win over Wales. His wife and daughter were not at the house at the time of the raid.[15]
[edit] Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
- League Cup Winner 2007/08
[edit] Career stats
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
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| Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | ||
| Blackburn Rovers | 08–09 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| Club Total | 35 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 0 | |
| Tottenham | 07–08 | 25 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 37 | 0 |
| 06–07 | 38 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 54 | 1 | |
| 05–06 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 40 | 0 | ||
| 04–05 | 36 | 0 | 8 | 0 | – | 44 | 0 | ||
| Club Total | 137 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 175 | 1 | |
| Leeds United | 03–04 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | 39 | 1 | |
| 02–03 | 38 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 50 | 0 | |
| 01–02 | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 00–01 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
| 99–00 | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 98–99 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | ||
| Club Total | 100 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 119 | 1 | |
| Career Total | 247 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 300 | 2 | |
[edit] References
- ^ "Blackburn Rovers profile". Blackburn Rovers. 2008-07-10. http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10303~5707,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-07-10.
- ^ """robinson Paul"" Robinson profile". TheFA.com. http://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorTeam/Archive/?pf=p&i=5848&ap=p&searchname=""robinson. Retrieved on 04 October 2007.
- ^ "Robinson inspires Leeds". BBC Sport. 24 September, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/3125082.stm.
- ^ Paul Robinson : Biography
- ^ Kessel, Anna (2007-03-18). "Robinson on right end of freak goal as Spurs ease to win". The Observer. http://football.guardian.co.uk/Observer_Match_Report/0,,2036571,00.html.
- ^ Burnton, Simon (December 21, 2006). "Defoe strikes in extra-time to finish Southend". The Guardian. http://football.guardian.co.uk/Match_Report/0,,-70670,00.html.
- ^ "FAC: Cardiff City 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur". RivalsDM. January 7, 2007. http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/6344682.
- ^ Carling Cup Match Report
- ^ "Keeper Robinson joins Blackburn". BBC Sport. 2008-07-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/7526434.stm. Retrieved on 2008-07-25.
- ^ Vickery, Tim (July 24, 2006). "Tim Vickery column". BBC Sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_football/5209102.stm.
- ^ McNulty, Phil (October 11, 2006). "Croatia 2-0 England". BBC Sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/6035559.stm.
- ^ "'A freak goal'". TheFA.com. October 11, 2006. http://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2006/10/CroatiaReaction.htm.
- ^ BBC Football - England 1 - 2 Germany
- ^ Chick, Alex (21 November 2007). "Euro 2008 qual. - England face moment of truth". Eurosport. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/21112007/58/euro-2008-qual-england-face-moment-truth.html.
- ^ BBC NEWS | England | London | England goalkeeper's home burgled
[edit] External links
- Paul Robinson career stats at Soccerbase
- Official Tottenham Hotspur Profile
- TheFA.com profile
- Paul Robinson FIFA competition record
- Profile at Football-Lineups.com
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