John Robertson.. RIP 🙏

[Big Ramy 1314]

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God Bless.....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏

[Orraloon]

Very sad news. A great player who absolutely loved playing for Scotland.

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[Robbo `81]

My All-Time Favourite Footballer 💔

Greatest of them All. 

 

 

[scotlad]

Only 72. It must be awful for his family; losing a family member is hard enough but at this time of year it must be even crueller.

He played before I became a football fan, so I can't remember him playing first hand, but from the footage I've seen he was clearly a class act.

[supersub]

Sad news but will forever live on in the song. 

He's handing the ball to me. . .

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Good read !! What a player....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Banjo]

For a player who scored a winner in a European Cup Final and assisted a winner in another still said his greatest goal was his penalty winner at Wembley against England in 1981.A brilliant player for Scotland and Forest.RIP Robbo

 

[thesaint]

Another great gone.Such a deceptive winger.Pure class.

[Big Ramy 1314]

1 hour ago, Banjo said:

For a player who scored a winner in a European Cup Final and assisted a winner in another still said his greatest goal was his penalty winner at Wembley against England in 1981.A brilliant player for Scotland and Forest.RIP Robbo

 

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Here it is mate.....

[EddardStark]

RIP. Part of an unbelievable Forest side. Brian Clough had him as his best player. A really tough but talented winger. Loved his country and put his winner against England above his goal  in the EC Final in terms of most memorable goals. 

[Burj_Alba]

A truly magnificent player and probably the best left sided player in Scotland history. ( IMO better than Eddie Gray or Willie Johnston at their peak) 

RIP JR

[King Of Paisley]

Hailed from the same area of Uddingston as Jinky Johnstone. Brilliant crosser of a ball too, especially the one he pinged over for Trevor Francis in the 1979 European Cup final.

RIP Robbo

 

 

[Toepoke]

50 minutes ago, Burj_Alba said:

A truly magnificent player and probably the best left sided player in Scotland history. ( IMO better than Eddie Gray or Willie Johnston at their peak) 

RIP JR

Kept Davie Cooper out of the team for a few years as well.

RIP Robbo, what a player. Bizarre we were just discussing him the other day on the Brian Clough thread.

This documentary is still on the iPlayer...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zphl

 

[Orraloon]

45 minutes ago, Toepoke said:

Kept Davie Cooper out of the team for a few years as well.

RIP Robbo, what a player. Bizarre we were just discussing him the other day on the Brian Clough thread.

This documentary is still on the iPlayer...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zphl

 

It's amazing that two of our best ever wingers had hardly any pace. They had so much skill that they could beat the defender over two yards with a wee flick, or a wee shimmy, and send over inch perfect crosses. Robertson had a wee advantage in that he was two footed (I think he might have actually preferred his right foot??? - not sure) but I would say that Cooper turned out to be the better player overall, especially once he added free kicks to his repertoire.  

[Ally Bongo]

50 minutes ago, Toepoke said:

Kept Davie Cooper out of the team for a few years as well.

 

 

I'm not sure that was down to Robertson 

Davie Cooper got his first two caps in 1979 and wasn't capped again for over 4 years - well after Robertson's International career was over 

In fact John Greig resigned Willie Johnston in 1980 which suggests either Greig never fancied Cooper like Jock Wallace did or a period when Cooper couldn't be arsed - or a combination of both 

Cooper was reignited by the return of Jock Wallace in 1983 

I don't even think it's even close as to who was the better player when on form 

That said Robertson had a 2-3 year period when he had Roy of the Rovers influence in big games 

[Hertsscot]

I remember Martin O'Neill talking about Robertson. MO'N was on the right hand side of midfield and basically said that his job was to give it to the 'genius' who was on the other flank 

[Toepoke]

48 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:

I'm not sure that was down to Robertson 

Davie Cooper got his first two caps in 1979 and wasn't capped again for over 4 years - well after Robertson's International career was over 

In fact John Greig resigned Willie Johnston in 1980 which suggests either Greig never fancied Cooper like Jock Wallace did or a period when Cooper couldn't be arsed - or a combination of both 

Cooper was reignited by the return of Jock Wallace in 1983 

I don't even think it's even close as to who was the better player when on form 

That said Robertson had a 2-3 year period when he had Roy of the Rovers influence in big games 

There were definitely issues between Davie Cooper and John Greig. My dad took me to Ibrox circa 1982 specifically to watch Cooper in a Rangers v Hibs reserve game, while he was frozen out of the first team (who were playing at Easter Road the same afternoon).

Unsurprisingly Davie ran riot, but still wasn't recalled IIRC.

 

[Malcolm]

 

Forrest were my English team growing up….  Predominantly because everyone else in my class supported Liverpool as their English team but also cause Archie Gemmil played for them, so after the World Cup that was my team.  
 

I remember being over the moon when my grandad took me to Thompsons sports shop in Corstorphine after he had a win at the bookies and bought me a Notts Forrest top.  that would be 1979 at the time of the European cup win.

 

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[daviebee]

Fabulous player, he'll always be a legend. The way he just rolled that penalty in at Wembley - different class.

[Ally Bongo]

Sadly Scottish Football had a multitude of players that were outstanding wingers which no longer existed after the 90s

If you went to football games in the 70s and 80s i bet every fan can remember who they were as almost every club had them 

That was who you paid money to go and see and felt an excitement when they got the ball 

It must have been coached out of players 

[Big Ramy 1314]

[Big Ramy 1314]

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This is brilliant !! God Bless you John...🙏

[King Of Paisley]

'Francis was wrong, Corrigan was wrong. Robertson scores'....