Ex-Liverpool striker Robinson passes on

Former Liverpool striker Michael Robinson has died at the age of 61. 

A post on Robinson’s official twitter account read, “With tremendous sadness, we inform you of Michael’s death. It leaves us with a great emptiness, but also countless memories, full of the same love that you have shown him,”

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“We will be eternally grateful to you for making this man SO HAPPY, he never walked alone. Thank you.”

Clubs and players have started paying tribute to the late Robinson with Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia leading the line through their Twitter accounts. 

“You’ll never walk alone Michael!! Rest in peace,” Alonso wrote. 

“R.I.P Michael Robinson. The Liverpool legend that got in all the Spanish homes with his fantastic commentaries every Weekend !! #YNWA,” Garcia wrote. 

“We at FC Barcelona wish to express our deepest condolences for the passing of Michael Robinson, a person who loved football and who knew how to explain it with
knowledge and ingenuity,” a statement from Spanish giants Barcelona read. 

Robinson, who the European Cup, Division One title and the League Cup in 1984 in his first – and only – full season with Liverpool, revealed in December 2018 he had been diagnosed with malignant melanoma