Robson started his managerial career with
Middlesbrough, where he was paid £3 a week and declined to travel to away games as an economic measure. Despite his parsimonious attitude, he took the club from being an amateur outfit in the
Northern League to a professional club in the
First Division. He was also the first manager of
Crystal Palace and coached the club to one of the greatest
FA Cup shocks of all time when they defeated
Newcastle United at
St James' Park in 1907. He later managed
Brighton & Hove Albion and started the concept of being a manager and not a secretary at Manchester United. He stepped down as United manager due to ill health in October 1921 and died of
pneumonia on 11 January 1922. ==Managerial statistics==