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It did not prove a good move for Roberts and he had a number of disagreements with the club, particularly after Stan Ternent had succeeded Andy Hessenthaler as manager. With the championship already won, Worthington restored Roberts to the starting line-up for the last game of the season at Gresty Road against Crewe Alexandra and made him captain for the day.

24 September 1995). He told the Eastern Daily Press, "I've done my qualifications. He played schoolboy football for his school and local side Caernarfon Town.

Roberts revealed in his autobiography that in February of that season he had a cancer scare and had to have a malignant melanoma removed from his arm.

A few days before the club's last home match of that 2003–04 season, Norwich manager Nigel Worthington announced that Roberts would not be offered a new contract when his deal expired that summer.

He spent only one season at Molineux and confirmed in his 2004 book that he did not enjoy his time there and does not have any fondness for the club, due largely to the mentality of many Wolves supporters. He soon thrived.

Warren Andersen, who has written a biography on Iwanoff, says when he arrived in Perth, he was quickly identified as being a "talented architect and artist".

"During that time, he worked on a lot of apartment buildings, and he also was supervising their office.

"But he was also moonlighting when he was working there.

He wanted trees to be part of it. It's not the normal practice, but because he was such a talented employee, they turned a blind eye and just let him do his own thing for a while."

Long hours pay off

Eventually, Iwanoff was able to set up his own business, building up a thriving practice that continued until his death in 1986 at the age of 67, working non-stop, his son recalled.

"He did a long, long hours on the drafting board.

Yet, although his British 400m record of 44.36s would stand unbroken for 25 years, niggling injuries were already beginning to limit his ability to compete with the best.



His response to setbacks had always been to train even harder, but this was no longer an option. Cambridge were relegated from League Two.

In August 2005, Roberts retired from playing after reaching an agreement with Gillingham to pay the final year of his contract.

Iwan Roberts has been known as a powerful header of the ball and has therefore often been used as targetman throughout his career.

Book controversy and praise

In 2004, Roberts published an account of his last season at Norwich, entitled All I want for Christmas ....

Walker left the club shortly before the end of the season and was replaced during the summer by Bruce Rioch. That season, in a match against Sheffield Wednesday at Carrow Road, Roberts scored twice to move into third place on the list of Norwich City's all-time leading goalscorers, overtaking Robert Fleck in the process. It's just getting a club to give me a chance and taking it."

When Norwich sacked manager Nigel Worthington, Roberts applied for the manager's job.

Roberts has three children, two being twins (b. He speaks fluent Welsh and also works for BBC Wales. In December 2004 Roberts had himself served as joint caretaker manager, along with Darren Hare and Paul Smith, after the sudden departure of both Hessenthaler and initial caretaker John Gorman. My routine was to bring him a cup of coffee and to rub his back," Mr Iwanoff said.

Over time clients came to seek out his highly distinctive style but, when he set out in his practice, he was catering to a general public whose design sensibilities had been formed by Women's Weekly and Home and Garden.

"Until he got the client base, and it took him about 10 years to do that, he had to basically give the clients what they wanted."

He also took on a large amount of commercial work, including designing a function centre for Miss Maud in the Perth CBD and striking buildings for Northam's council offices and public library.

"Dad was also involved with a lot of shop fronts in Hay Street, for Sportslane, Tiffany's and Mazzuchelli's jewellers and he really, he really enjoyed that challenge, doing fit-outs."

Mr Andersen said when Iwanoff designed houses, he focused on every detail.

"He was also very skilful in designing custom furniture and fit-outs for houses,"he said.

"One of the most exciting things, as part of the book project, is that I've been documenting all of the houses, and some of them have never been open to the public for 40, 50 years.

"So you can look at all of the fantastic woodwork and furniture and cabinets and all of the stuff that he did as a part of the whole package of a house, not just the exterior."

Iwanoff also had a sense of fun when designing, placing hidden vents in cupboards and light switches in hard-to-find places, so the function elements were all in place but didn't interrupt the interior design.

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'Mischievous nature' features in designs

For every house he designed, he also crafted a letterbox to match, sometimes confounding neighbourhood postmen, who found the letter slots difficult to find in the small matching sculptures, Mr Iwanoff recalled.

"That mischievous nature is very typical — he was a very quiet person, very reserved, but when it came to architecture and design, he became incredibly animated."

He said his father's interests also extended to including ideas of environmental sensitivity, in a period where it was rarely considered in house design.

"He believed in designing something for a specific site and being sensitive to the site and its characteristics being celebrated in the design of the house, whether it's the trees and especially orientation.

"He was not interested in just going to a block and bulldozing everything.

I had to sort it out myself."

Roberts threw himself into weight training and soon reached a target weight of 13 stone 10 pounds. However, Roberts and Hamilton did not have a good relationship during the Ulsterman's short spell in charge and after Hamilton left the club during the 2000–01 season, Roberts intimated that if he had known that Hamilton was going to succeed Rioch then he would not have signed his contract extension.

Although Roberts was personally enjoying the most productive spell of his career, his four years so far at Carrow Road had seen the club struggle.