LAURENT! LAURENT ROBERT! Everybody Knows His Name!


Laurent Robert

By Matthew Jones
December 14 2003

Newcastle's Laurent Robert put on an amazing display for The Magpies' yesterday, as they hammered Tottenham 4-0 yesterday at St James' Park. Robert was up all night sweating before the game and feeling washed-out, but he started - and what a good job! Two goals and two assists!

ROBERT ON FIRE!


Newcastle's Laurent Robert put on an amazing display for The Magpies' yesterday, as they hammered Tottenham 4-0 yesterday at St James' Park. Robert netted two spectacular goals, and then set-up Alan Shearer to score two of his own (His 100th and 101st Newcastle goals at St James' Park).

Newcastle the game, Magpies' boss Sir Bobby Robson revealed: "I had a call from (physio) Derek Wright mid-morning to say he'd been up all night sweating and had a temperature.

"He was feeling a little bit better but he was feeling a bit washed-out.

"We checked him out and decided what we would do to see how he felt in the warm-up. We'd soon find out whether his body strength was good and he had enough strength in his legs as well.

"I went out during the warm-up to see how he was and he said he'd like to try. I thought we'd take a risk - we could always have taken him off after half an hour.

"But he played longer than I thought he was capable of doing. The second goal gave him such an injection, gave him such an adrenalin rush, he was able to go a little bit longer.

"It was a great brace of goals for a fine player who's in good form."

He added, "Laurent scored two and made two. They were two good corners and Alan got on the end of both of them, and we find ourselves in winning form with a big victory and have picked up three points and gone up to fifth, so it's been a really good day for us.

"Some of the other results have gone quite well for us as well, but you have to help yourself and that's what we've done today."

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