About this product Description Description. The unprecedented success of Nottingham Forest under master manager Brian Clough is one of the greatest stories in football folklore.
Winning the European Cup in and were the remarkable highlights of that era in the club's history. And the player at the heart of those Forest glories was winger John Robertson, who fashioned the goal that conquered Europe a first time and then scored the match-winner as Clough's side retained the trophy.
His unkempt and unshaven appearance made him the most unlikely of footballers but his artistry and vision made him the creative on-the-field force behind a Forest side that swept all before them.
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After retiring from playing, Robertson went on to strike up a wonderfully successful managerial partnership with Martin O'Neill at Leicester, Celtic and Aston Villa. Estratto da " https: Calciatori del Nottingham Forest F.
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Robertson had played for Scotland at Schoolboy and Youth levels and for Drumchapel Amateurs before joining Forest in May , making his debut for the team in October Although he was an infrequent member of the first team as a midfielder up to , and was on the transfer list when Clough became manager, Robertson became a key player as a left winger under Clough and appeared in consecutive games between December and December Brian Clough, Robertson's manager at Nottingham Forest, was quoted as saying "John Robertson was a very unattractive young man.
If one day, I felt a bit off colour, I would sit next to him. I was bloody Errol Flynn in comparison. But give him a ball and a yard of grass, and he was an artist, the Picasso of our game.
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He had more ability than Ryan Giggs, his ratio of creating goals was better and overall he was the superior footballer", whilst Forest coach Jimmy Gordon rated Robertson as a better player than Tom Finney and Stanley Matthews , saying that he "had something extra on top". Robertson was sold to Derby County in June on a contested transfer the fee was set by a tribunal that soured the relationship between Clough and his former assistant Peter Taylor , but was injured soon after joining the team and failed to reproduce the form he had shown when he played for Forest.
He also had stints with Stamford and Grantham Town. In , FourFourTwo magazine declared that John Robertson was 63rd in the greatest footballers of all time. Robertson's daughter, Jessica, was born in with cerebral palsy , which left her quadriplegic and unable to speak or control her movements.
She had a short life expectancy. In , Robertson and his former wife Sally challenged the hospital where Jessica was born for damages, claiming that they had caused her brain damage by a hour delay to carry out a Caesarean section. However, they lost their High Court case.
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Robertson released his autobiography Supertramp in September He supported Rangers as a boy, but describes his time at Celtic as assistant to Martin O'Neill as the best years of his life in football. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For other people named John Robertson, see John Robertson disambiguation.