Can remember his testimonial at forest (he can't of been there 10 years?) forest showing off the European Cup pre match, oh times change.
joined F****t in 1970 pre BC...
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."
[3] In his autobiography Clough noted that "Rarely could there have been a more unlikely looking professional athlete... [He was a] scruffy, unfit, uninterested waste of time...but something told me he was worth persevering with." but that "[He] became one of the finest deliverers of a football I have ever seen – in Britain or anywhere else in the world – as fine as the Brazilians or the supremely gifted Italians."
[4] Robertson's captain at Forest,
John McGovern, later said that "John Robertson was like Ryan Giggs but with two good feet, not one. 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".
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