For Clough,football was approximately identifying talent and trusting it, filling its owner with confidence in the spontaneous expressions of his giftsAs a schoolboy in Glasgow, and John Robertson worshipped the Real Madrid of Ferenc Puskas and Francisco Gento. Somehow he grew up to be both of them,a two-footed left winger who struck his shots and crosses with a decisive accuracy. “Give him a ball and a yard of grass,” Brian Clough said, or “and he was an artist – a Picasso of our game.Clough had turned him from a no-hoper into a world-beater and it was Robertson who beat a pair of Malmo defenders before putting over the ball from which Trevor Francis headed the goal that secured the first of Forest’s European Cup wins,in Munich in 1979.
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Source: theguardian.com