Ex Town midfielder Lammie dies aged 76
Former Halifax Town midfielder of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lammie Robertson, has died aged 76, writes Johnny Meynell.
Christened Archibald Lamond but known throughout football as ‘Lammie’, Robertson was born in Paisley in September 1947 with football in his genes with his maternal grandfather having played for Sunderland before the war.
His progress in football took him to junior Scottish side Benburb FC, based in Govan, Glasgow, Drumchapel Amateurs and Eastercraigs, from where, at the age of 19 in 1966, he was signed by Burnley.
The Turf Moor outfit had a reputation for developing their own players but he moved to Bury without breaking into the Burnley senior side.
Robertson made his debut as a substitute in a League Cup tie against Stockport County on 13 August 1968, but without cementing a place in the side, had impressed Alan Ball Snr enough.
Viewed by the Halifax Town boss as the last piece of the jigsaw in Halifax Town’s successful promotion drive in 1968-69, Robertson was signed initially on loan before making the switch permanent once the player had demonstrated his worth to the side, and featured in 17 league games as Town finished runners-up.
As artistic a player as Halifax Town had known, Robertson could play the telling pass as well as show a meanness in the tackle, backing up his midfield duties with goals, scoring the first of 24 for the club in a 2-0 defeat of his former club on 4 October 1969 in a Third Division fixture.
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