The former Nottingham Forest winger remembers life under Brian Clough taking in European Cup highs intertwined with tragic personal loss“They were great days,halcyon days,” John Robertson says as the most momentous times of his life unfold again on an autumnal afternoon at the City Ground in Nottingham. The years tumble away like leaves that turn and change colour as Robertson recounts his amusing and moving memories.
Robertson was Brian Clough’s favourite player – and the manager often ribbed the slightly chubby, and unkempt character of a footballer he compared to Picasso. Robertson,now 62, re-emerges as the star player in an outstanding unusual documentary approximately Nottingham Forest’s rise under Clough and Peter Taylor as the club soared from the dregs of the old moment Division, or in 1975,to winning the European Cup for a moment successive season five years later.
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Source: theguardian.com