• At 61, Michael Robinson dies of cancer
  • Obituary: the genius of the rag language

Michael Robinson said that shortly after arriving in Pamplona (shortly after learning that the city was called Pamplona and not Osasuna ), he went out for a drink with his companions and offered to ask for everyone. "What are you going to want?" "Well, I want a son of a bitch." "And me another one." "And me another one." Total that Robinson, just arrived from England, approached the bar and asked for five motherfuckers.

That Englishman would make his peculiar accent a mark. His Spanish might be a little broken (many would like to speak English as 'badly' as he spoke Spanish), but that did not stop him from being one of the best sports journalists of the last thirty years. 'The Day After', 'Robinson's Report' or, what else if not, 'Robinson's Accent' . Using sport as an excuse to tell human stories.

Since that first time he commented on an Albacete-Valencia with Carlos Martínez . How long did it take to pronounce that erre of his companion. He was joking, already ill, that he hoped that the medication would help him pronounce the 'Rs' better. The difference between masculine and feminine was not always clear, few plurals appeared when they should and more than one pronoun was lost along the way.

"I have managed not to speak either of the two languages ​​well," he joked. A broken speech and a wide vocabulary, dotted with sayings and sayings. Of Joris Mathijsen , a low-waist centerback said, "I've seen boats turn faster." When a player was very tired, he was "more burned than a hippie's bike."

"My family, my mother and my children think that I am anti-English. My mother was the funniest woman I ever knew . After a year in Spain, I remember saying to her:" Hey, mom, wouldn't you have something with a Spanish, right? ", he joked about his love for Spain, which he felt was his" natural place ".

Mainly Cádiz, the place he was in love with. " It is a place that does not exist . When everyone is concerned about capitalism, they are with a beer and some prawns living life. It is a place inoculated against any virus related to daily worries. In Spain we laugh out loud at the rest. But laughing at ourselves costs us more, "he said.

Mr. Robinson, what is your profession ?, they asked him in an interview in El Mundo in 2015. "I would say that between jeta and communicator . If you had asked me a few years ago, I would say that you are director of television programs, but lately they called me the radio and I am crazy. I am a guy who landed very late and loves radio. I would not say that I am versatile. However, I like to communicate, either on TV or on the radio, "he replied.

A Spanish of English cadence with a peculiar sense of humor and almost his own language, the Robinson accent.

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