Liverpool Echo report made it sound very bad indeed.
"The 60-year-old also recalled the shocking moment the specialist who examined him, delivered the news.
He added: “(I was told) Michael you've got cancer, a bad one, of the sort that are not curable."
And Smith Must Score - Issue 4 February 1989 page 22
"Goodbye to you Michael Robinson
Why Liverpool paid so much we'll never know
Those dodgy knees Michael Robinson
We'd just wind you up and let you go
Why did you pass to Gordon on that Wembley afternoon
We think you have scored the third...