"It's a great honour to be recognised by the ECHO in this way and it means so much," he said.
"This isn't just for me but for all the lads I go to the matches with.
"I've had a run of bad luck but being part of such a great night and rubbing shoulders with the stars certainly makes up for it."
Robert was taken ill at The Riverside last season and underwent heart surgery. When he was discharged from hospital the car he was in on the way back to Merseyside was written off after a crash on the M62.
