Editing Bobby Robson (section)

=== Early club management ===
In 1959, the then [[England national football team manager|England manager]] and [[the Football Association]] (FA) director of coaching, [[Walter Winterbottom]], suggested to Robson that he take a coaching course at [[Lilleshall Hall|Lilleshall]].<ref name="p33to35"/> He obtained coaching qualifications during his second spell at Fulham, and coached [[Oxford University A.F.C.]]<ref name="ODNB"/> Robson made his debut as a manager in January 1968 at his former club Fulham, against [[Macclesfield Town F.C.|Macclesfield Town]], then in the [[Cheshire County League]], in the third round of the [[FA Cup]]. Fulham were struggling with 16 points from 24 matches.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Robson
 | title = Farewell but Not Goodbye
 | year = 2005
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/farewellbutnotgo0000robs/page/299 299]
 | isbn = 0-340-84064-1
 | url = https://archive.org/details/farewellbutnotgo0000robs/page/299
 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.statto.com/football/teams/fulham/1967-1968/table/1968-01-20
| title = Fulham 1967-1968 : English Division One (old) Table as at 20 January 1968
| publisher = Statto
| access-date = 17 November 2013
| url-status=dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141015200303/http://www.statto.com/football/teams/fulham/1967-1968/table/1968-01-20
| archive-date = 15 October 2014
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref> Despite the acquisition of the young [[Malcolm Macdonald]], Robson could not save the club from relegation to the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]],<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Robson
 | title = Farewell but Not Goodbye
 | year = 2005
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/farewellbutnotgo0000robs/page/66 66]
 | isbn = 0-340-84064-1
 | url = https://archive.org/details/farewellbutnotgo0000robs/page/66
 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.statto.com/football/teams/fulham/1967-1968/table
| title = Fulham 1967-1968 : English Division One (old) Table
| publisher = Statto
| access-date = 17 November 2013
| url-status=dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131202231820/http://www.statto.com/football/teams/fulham/1967-1968/table
| archive-date = 2 December 2013
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref> and he left them in November<ref>{{Cite web
 | url = http://www.fulhamfc.com/history/managers/bobby-robson
 | title = Bobby Robson
 | access-date =17 November 2013
 | publisher=Fulham F.C.}}</ref> with the club sitting eighth in the Second Division. He discovered he had been sacked not from the club itself, but from the headline "Robson sacked" on an ''[[London Evening Standard|Evening Standard]]'' placard outside [[Putney railway station|Putney station]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Robson
 | title = Farewell but Not Goodbye
 | year = 2005
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/farewellbutnotgo0000robs/page/67 67–68]
 | publisher = Hodder & Stoughton
 | isbn = 0-340-84064-1
 | url = https://archive.org/details/farewellbutnotgo0000robs/page/67
 }}</ref>