# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-robertson-q579743
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:46:16.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-robertson-q579743"
name: "John Robertson"
slug: "john-robertson-q579743"
description: "John Neilson Robertson was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left winger for Nottingham Forest, Derby County and the Scotland national team. He provided the assisting cross for Trevor Francis to score the only goal when Nottingham Forest won the 1979 European Cup final. A year later he scored in the final when Forest retained the European Cup, this time against Hamburger SV. At Forest he also won promotion from the 1976–77 Football League Second Division, the 1977–78 Football League First Division, the UEFA Super Cup, two Football League Cups, the 1978 FA Charity Shield and the Anglo-Scottish Cup."
tagline: "Scottish association football player (1953-2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Robertson_(1980).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1953-01-20"
deathDate: "2025-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.25418506726918
  historical:           21.334708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump