May 12 – Rob’s Bad Day
MAY 12, 1993 was a pretty bad day all round for Robbie ‘Lily’ Savage. Then a young apprentice at Manchester United, Rob was called into Alex Ferguson’s office and told that he was being released. So a case of so long, and thanks for all the fish, but things were about to get worse for the young Welshman.
After five years in the Old Trafford youth set up, playing with the likes of David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, Sav was out on his ear and at his lowest ebb, and his mental state was surely a contributory factor when he had a lapse of concentration behind the wheel of his car and crashed.
“It was absolutely devastating. My heart was set on being a success at United,” he recalls. “I came out in a daze.
“I didn’t know how I was going to tell my mum and dad so I phoned some mates and arranged to meet them at a local snooker hall. I couldn’t stop thinking about my parents and I guess I wasn’t concentrating. The next thing I know I had crashed and was in hospital: broken bones, cut head, no feeling in my arm, the lot.”
Now that is a bad day, but Robbie’s fears that his professional career was over were unfounded and he soon found a new home at Crewe where he played 77 times before he fell out with Dario Gradi (not the first time he would clash with his bosses).
Martin O’Neill came to his rescue and snapped him up for £400,000 to take him to Leicester City where he really made his name as the scrappy midfielder that everyone loved to hate. Since then he has had spells at Birmingham, Blackburn and now at Derby County, as well as an international career with Wales that would surely still be ongoing if he hadn’t had one of his trademark feuds with John Toshack.
Here is a nice little selection of clips involving Savage getting hit in the face by balls, other players and even a referee. Enjoy, and come back tomorrow for a riot that Robbie didn’t start.
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R-Unit on May 13th, 2008
You really have a thing for Bentley don’t you? As you are a Spurs man I can understand Campbell and Drogba but does being a former Arsenal youthie quality Bentley for hatred?
J-Rock on May 13th, 2008
It’s John Terry for me. I’m not a violent man, but every time I see him crowding the ref I want to hit in the face. Horrible man.
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Greg Burns on May 12th, 2008
I have spent the last five minutes after reading this entry thinking of another player that I don’t like as much as Robbie Savage.
The only ones that have sprung to mind are 1) David Bentley. 2) Sol Campbell. 3) Didier Drogba.
But still Savage tops the bill.
Its the hairdo I think.