Jason Thorpe Robinson
OBE (born 30 July 1974) is an English former
dual-code international rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
and
rugby union
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footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.
Playing as a
wing
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or
fullback, he won 51 rugby union international caps for
England
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and is the first black man to captain the England team.
In
rugby league
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he won 12 caps for
Great Britain
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and seven for
England
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. Throughout his career Robinson was noted for his speed and acceleration, side-step and ability to beat defenders.
Rugby league
Born 30 July 1974 in
Leeds
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,
West Yorkshire
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, Robinson began playing rugby as a child at th
Hunslet Boys Cluband then Hunslet Parkside before starting his
rugby league
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career in 1991 at semi-professional side
Hunslet
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It is situated in the Hunslet and Riverside ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds Central parliamentar ...
. Despite being offered a contract by
Leeds
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, he stuck by his club as it would have meant leaving at an inconvenient time. He was later rewarded by a contract with
Wigan Warriors
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Formed in 1872 as Wigan Football Club, Wigan was a founding member of the Rugby Football League, Northern Rugby ...
who went on to dominate British rugby league. His form quickly establishing him in Wigan's first team, as a teenager he was touted as a future halfback or loose forward. He was selected to play on the wing for Wigan against the visiting
Brisbane Broncos
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in the
1992 World Club Challenge.
Robinson played in
Wigan
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's 5–4 victory over
St. Helens in the
1992 Lancashire Cup Final at
Knowsley Road
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,
St. Helens on Sunday 18 October 1992.
He played and scored a
try
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in
Wigan
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's 15–8 victory over
Bradford Northern
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in the
1992–93 Regal Trophy Final during the
1992–93 season at
Elland Road
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The g ...
,
Leeds
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on Saturday 23 January 1993,
played in the 2–33 defeat by
Castleford
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in the
1993–94 Regal Trophy Final during the
1993–94 season at
Headingley Rugby Stadium
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History
1889-1980s: Construc ...
,
Leeds
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on Saturday 22 January 1994, played in the 40–10 victory over
Warrington
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in the
1994–95 Regal Trophy Final during the
1994–95 season at
Alfred McAlpine Stadium
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,
Huddersfield
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on Saturday28 January 1995,
and played in the 25–16 victory over
St. Helens in the
1995–96 Regal Trophy Final during the
1995–96 season at
Alfred McAlpine Stadium
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,
Huddersfield
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on Saturday 13 January 1996.
In 1993 Robinson played in his first
Challenge Cup
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Final, with Wigan defeating Widnes. Later that year at age 19 Robinson was first selected to represent
Great Britain
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on the wing against New Zealand.
After the
1993–94 Rugby Football League season Robinson travelled with defending champions
Wigan
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to Brisbane, playing on the wing in their
1994 World Club Challenge victory over Australian premiers, the
Brisbane Broncos
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.
It was reported in 1995 that Robinson was offered a 4-year deal worth a record £1.25 million by the
Australian Rugby League
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to play for the
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league
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at the end of 1997's
Super League II. He recovered from a foot injury to play in Wigan's 30–10 Challenge Cup Final victory over Leeds, scoring two tries and earning himself the
Lance Todd Trophy
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as man-of-the-match.
Robinson played for
England
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in the
1995 World Cup Final on the wing but
Australia
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won the match and retained the Cup.
In May 1996, Robinson played for Wigan in a special two-game, cross code challenge series against
Bath, then the leading club side in English rugby union. Robinson scored twice in the first game, an 82-6 victory for Wigan under league rules, as well as playing in the union game, which ended 44-19 to Bath.
Following the cross-code challenge series, a number of Wigan's players, including Robinson, elected to take advantage of the fact that rugby union had turned professional, and ended its ban on players that had played rugby league, by signing short-term contracts to play union during the Super League off-season. Robinson joined Bath and played 14 games for the side between September 1996 and January 1997. At the end of the first
Super League
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season, Robinson was named on the wing in the 1996
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.
In the midst of the
Super League war
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Super ...
, Robinson played a one-off international for a 'Rest of the World' team in their 28–8 loss against the
Australian Rugby League
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's Kangaroos in mid-1997. With his contracted move to Sydney set to take place at the conclusion of the 1997's
Super League II, Robinson had had a change of heart and Wigan were able to negotiate his release from the ARL's contract so he could continue playing for his club. He then scored a try for Great Britain in each of the three matches against Australia in the post-season
Super League Test series
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.
In 1998 Robinson scored Wigan's only try in
Super League's first ever Grand Final, which the Cherry & Whites won. As a result, he was awarded the
Harry Sunderland Trophy
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as man-of-the-match. He was also named on the wing in the 1998 season's
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, and again in 1999 and 2000.
Robinson played at
fullback in the Wigan Warriors' defeat by St. Helens in the
2000 Super League Grand Final
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. Days after the match, it was announced that he had signed for the Zurich Premiership's Sale Sharks
rugby union
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side, with Robinson citing the lack of anything left to prove in rugby league and the desire to represent England and Great Britain in the 15-man code.
Rugby union
He made his début for
Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby.
Originally founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club, now a distinct amateur club, they adopted the n ...
against Coventry in November 2000. In the 2005/6 season he became the first person to have won both the
Guinness Premiership
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, and the
Super League
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trophies.
England
Robinson made his
England
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début as a substitute against
Italy
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in February 2001, having played in the A match against Wales at Wrexham a fortnight earlier. In doing so he was only the second man ever to play rugby union for England after having first played Rugby League for Great Britain (the first having been
Barrie-Jon Mather
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He was the NSWRL's ...
in 1999).
He scored 30 tries in 56 international matches, including a try in the
2003 World Cup Final against
Australia
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. He played in all seven of England's World Cup games in 2003.
After
Lawrence Dallaglio
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He played as a flanker or number eight ...
's international retirement in 2005,
Jonny Wilkinson
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was initially appointed captain. However, Wilkinson was injured for the 2005 autumn internationals and Robinson was appointed captain. He was the 118th captain of England, the first mixed-race player and the first former professional
rugby league
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footballer to captain England. In his first appearance as captain, he scored a
hat-trick
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of
tries in a 70–0 rout of
Canada
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.
In the
2004 Six Nations, he scored three tries playing as a centre in the opening match against Italy and was named
Man of the Match
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. Robinson chose to opt out of the 2004 summer tour to recover.
British & Irish Lions
Robinson was selected by the
British & Irish Lions
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for their
2001 tour of Australia, and was one of the outstanding players in the side that won the first Test in Brisbane 29–13. In that game he sidestepped past
Australian
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fullback
Chris Latham. He went on to score another try in the last Test.
Robinson was again called up to the Lions'
2005 tour of New Zealand. He was excused from travelling with the bulk of the touring party to spend time with his wife, who was expecting the couple's fourth child in August. Throughout his career, he normally brought his wife and children along when he went on a tour, but her pregnancy made this impossible for the 2005 tour. He joined the team on 7 June, well in advance of the first
New Zealand
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test on 25 June.
International retirement
On 24 September 2005, Robinson announced his retirement from international rugby union, stating that he wished to spend more time with his family. In the
2005–2006 season, Robinson led his club
Sale Sharks
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Originally founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club, now a distinct amateur club, they adopted the n ...
to their first ever
Premiership title.
Return
Robinson returned to the England set-up for the 2007 Six Nations tournament, following the decision of new head coach
Brian Ashton to recall him to provide the leadership and winning quality the team had lacked in the past year, ending a 15-month absence from the international scene. He scored two tries on his return in England's opening victory over Scotland. He also scored another try against the
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the following week.
On 2 April 2007, Robinson announced he would retire from playing club rugby at the end of the 2006/07 season. He also announced he would participate, if required, in England's summer friendlies and the 2007 Rugby World Cup, before retiring completely from the sport. His last game for Sale Sharks came at home to Bath on Friday 13 April. Robinson said, "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Sale Sharks but the time has come to move on to other things. I want my last game for Sale Sharks to be a home game (v Bath) and want to be able to say a big thank you to the supporters of this great club."
On 13 April 2007, Robinson ended his club career with a match-winning try 6 seconds from time as Sale edged past Bath in the Guinness Premiership. In the last play of the game, he received the ball 30 metres out and could not be stopped. He was then given the opportunity to convert the try, only to miss by a matter of inches past the left post.
On 14 September 2007, Robinson left the field to a standing ovation during England's defeat by South Africa, with a
hamstring
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injury. This kept him out of England's remaining two group games, but he resumed full training in time to be available to play in the knock-out stages. In the quarter-final against Australia, Robinson returned to the side as full back and played his part in a tense 12–10 victory over the Wallabies. In the semi-final victory over France, his 50th cap, he was given the honour of leading out the England team. Robinson's last game for England came in the 2007 World Cup Final defeat by South Africa, when he was forced to leave the field during the second half, due to an injury. He was one of only four players to have started both the 2003 and 2007 Finals, the other three being
Jonny Wilkinson
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,
Ben Kay
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Background
Kay was born in Liverpool, the only son of Lord Justice of Appeal Si ...
, and
Phil Vickery.
Robinson was selected to play for the
Barbarians
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at Twickenham on 1 December 2007, showing many of his trademark runs and received a standing ovation as he left the field for the last time in the 68th minute of the match.
Fylde
On 26 July 2010, Robinson came out of retirement at the age of 35 to play for
National League 2 North
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side;
Fylde. He announced his final retirement on 7 July 2011.
International tries
England
British & Irish Lions
Coaching career
On 5 March 2008, the
RFL announced that Robinson would be returning to rugby league in a coaching capacity at grass roots level from under 8s to open age, as a dual code ambassador for the sport in association with
Gillette
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.
On 25 February 2009 it was announced that Robinson would be re-joining Sale Sharks as the new head coach from the 2009–10 season.
Awards
Already a
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE), he was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(OBE) in the
2008 New Year Honours.
In March 2017, Robinson was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the
Lycamobile
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British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSAs) held at the
London Hilton on Park Lane
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.
Personal life
He is of Scottish and
Jamaican descent. His father William Thorpe, a Jamaican living in Leeds, left his mother before Robinson's birth. Robinson and his two older brothers Bernard and George were raised by his mother and a step father. In 2003, he was reunited with his natural father again through his brother and sister.
Robinson is nicknamed '
Billy Whizz' after a character in the British comic ''
The Beano
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'', who is an extremely fast runner.
In 2012, his eldest son
Lewis Tierney
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He started his professional career in 2013 with the Wigan Warriors in the Super League, and spent time on loan at Workington Town. He joined t ...
, who plays as a full back, signed a two-year deal with Wigan Warriors at age 18. Tierney is one of six children that Robinson has. Tierney has declared himself for Scotland. His son
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is a professional cyclist.
After the 2003 Rugby World Cup, Robinson wrote an autobiography entitled ''Finding My Feet: My Autobiography'' published by
Coronet Books. In it, he wrote about how he overcame issues from his childhood and bouts of drinking when he found success as a rugby league star. In 2005, a biography, ''The Real Jason Robinson'', written with Robinson's full co-operation by Dave Swanton, was published by Empire Publications.
See also
*
List of top English points scorers and try scorers
References
External links
Statistics (RL) at wigan.rlfans.com*(archived by web.archive.org
Profile (RU) at england-rugby.comJason Robinson photo 1 by sportingheroes.netJason Robinson photo 2 by sportingheroes.net*(archived by web.archive.org
Jason Robinson feature at bbc.co.uk
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1974 births
Living people
Barbarian F.C. players
Bath Rugby players
Black British sportspeople
British & Irish Lions rugby union players from England
Dual-code rugby internationals
England international rugby union players
England national rugby league team players
English people of Jamaican descent
English people of Scottish descent
English rugby league coaches
English rugby league players
English rugby union coaches
English rugby union players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Hunslet R.L.F.C. players
Lance Todd Trophy winners
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People from Belle Isle, Leeds
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league players from Leeds
Rugby league wingers
Rugby union fullbacks
Rugby union players from Leeds
Rugby union wings
Sale Sharks players
Wigan Warriors players