'Failure' Robbo enjoying the Thail life

Robson: Lucrative salary in Thailand

Former England captain Bryan Robson - a man whose managerial CV contains nothing other than abject failure - is making a good fist of his Thailand 'jolly'!

Signed up on a lucrative four-year-deal by the Thai FA last year, Robson was heavily criticised after Thailand missed out on qualification for the Asian Cup for the first time ever but he has at least seen his side stutter into the quarter-finals of the rather less prestigious Aian Games.

Despite beating a hapless Pakistan outfit, Robson refused to talk to the media after his side could only draw with renowned minnows Oman and the Maldives...before needing extra time to scramble past...wait for it...Turkmenistan!
What an achievement for Thailand - a football-crazy nation with the world's 20th largest population (over 67 million) - to draw with the Sultans and 'oil men' of Oman (population less than 3 million)...before holding the Tuna fishermen and boat-builders of the Maldives to a goalless stalemate - a nation with a population similar to Hull, and where a curious game called 'Bai Bala' (described as 'wrestling tag') is actually more popular than football!

Then to top it all, Robbo's boys managed to squeeze past the impoverished cotton farmers and gas labourers of Turkmenistan (population under 5 million) where falconry and Akhal-Teke horse-riding outshine soccer!
Not that Robbo would need an excuse... but we reckon it's time for him crack open yet another Singha Beer!