Neil Robinson RIP

[alan ball]

Some very sad news. Neil Robinson, former Everton full-back, died suddenly last night. A lovely man & the first vegan pro footballer in the UK. He loved EFC. Our condolences to the Robinson family

 

[BNJ1878]

Can't have been that old.... Early/Mid 60s?

 

[Bluerover]

RIP - sad to hear. Very hazy memories of him - only 17 apps in the 70s, although he was a Walton lad.

Played a good bit for Grimsby iin the 80s.

 

[April1970]

Very sad news - he played for Swansea for a time when Toshack was the manager. If I remember correctly his brother, also no longer with us, was a leading educationist.

 

[alan ball]

Can't have been that old.... Early/Mid 60s?

65

 

[LEONARD]

Sad news.

My main memory of Neil was a reserve game at Goodison.

Spectators stood then in the Goodison Road Paddock.

Colin Harvey was asking him to do more, his response was totally unprintable.

?

 

[Joey66]

RIP

 

[chrismpw]

Some very sad news. Neil Robinson, former Everton full-back, died suddenly last night. A lovely man & the first vegan pro footballer in the UK. He loved EFC. Our condolences to the Robinson family

Wasn't Kenny Hibbitt a vegan?

RIP Neil.

 

[tommytowne]

Bloody hell, another one?
I certainly recall him speed being his greatest asset.
Shocked to hear of this.
RIP

 

[bcblue1878]

Sad news (again), RIP Neil.

 

[Dixieslaces]

RIP, sad to hear this, he was a relative of one of our neighbours who lived near me as a kid in Southport.

65 is no age?

 

[klingklang]

Scored in the 6-0 win over Chelsea when Big Bob got his 30th league goal.
RIP Neil

 

[duncs pigeon]

RIP Sir. Sad news indeed

 

[BigMick]

Very sad news - he played for Swansea for a time when Toshack was the manager. If I remember correctly his brother, also no longer with us, was a leading educationist.

That's right - his brother, Ken, was knighted for his work in education.

His family lived on Spellow Lane when he was a kid - he reckoned that made him the player born closest to Goodison.

A true Blue.

Sad news.

 

[roydo]

That's right - his brother, Ken, was knighted for his work in education.

His family lived on Spellow Lane when he was a kid - he reckoned that made him the player born closest to Goodison.

A true Blue.

Sad news.

I read about him (Neil) a few years ago, and Sir Ken is quite a story. IIRC, their Dad was invalided due to a work accident, and Ken had polio as a kid. The family had enough compo to buy a place on the Wirral, but the Dad, from a wheelchair, (different days), pushed and pushed Ken in particular to get very well educated, which he did, and made a passionate career out of it.

When Neil retired from footie, after bouncing around a bit, he invented a veggie energy bar, and that company got bought by a bigger one.

Not bad for two working class lads with a disabled Dad from Liverpool. In those days.