Robson celebrates big day in style

Bobby Robson heaped praise on his “lanky Bambi” after Shola Ameobi rekindled Newcastle’s Champions League hopes in Germany.

The 21-year-old striker, whose gangly frame in his younger days prompted the manager to liken him to the cartoon character, was asked to fill the boots of the suspended Alan Shearer, and did not let manager Sir Bobby Robson down as his fired home a double inside 16 minutes to put Bayer Leverkusen to the sword.