Overview
- Nottingham Forest and the Scotland national team led tributes to the winger, with messages of condolence also issued by Celtic, Derby County, Aston Villa and former teammates.
- Forest fans held a minute’s applause before the Manchester City match and left flowers and shirts at the City Ground, where owner Evangelos Marinakis proposed renaming the Bridgford Stand as The John Robertson Stand.
- Robertson was pivotal to Forest’s back-to-back European Cup triumphs, supplying the 1979 winner for Trevor Francis and scoring the decisive goal in the 1980 final against Hamburg.
- He made more than 500 appearances for Forest, won the 1978 First Division title and two League Cups, and earned 28 caps for Scotland, including a Wembley winner over England in 1981 and a goal at the 1982 World Cup.
- After retiring, he served for years as Martin O’Neill’s trusted assistant at Wycombe, Norwich, Leicester, Celtic and Aston Villa, earning wide respect for his coaching and mentorship.