Andy Robertson gets mega Liverpool verdict but Scottish icon reminds him what must be done to match Nottingham Forest

John McGovern respect for Andy Robertson is such he believes he’d have had the seal of approval from the late, great Brian Clough.

But the twice European Cup winner has warned his fellow Scot than nothing less than back-to-back Champions League wins will be enough to be compared alongside the double European Cup-winning Reds of the late ‘70s glory days.

The midfield brain of Clough’s Nottingham Forest side which lifted the European Cup against Malmo in 1979 and Hamburg the following year is a huge fan of the Scotland skipper who will line up against Real Madrid in Paris this Saturday to try to claim the biggest prize in club football.

McGovern’s own European adventures are a story of melancholy in the moment of his greatest success and he’s tipped Robertson to join him in a select band of players who’ve lifted the trophy twice.

He said: “Once you win the trophy you want to win it again and at Forest we were labelled a flash in the pan.

“It remains to be proved if this Liverpool can compare to the one I played against as they need to hold that Champions League trophy for two years in a row.

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“They are capable of doing that as they have so much quality within their side and Robertson is a big part of