Andy Robertson: Liverpool’s selfless superstar on his emotional Anfield farewell

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“Because we both have a competitive nature, we both wanted to better each other but we also... it’s not, ‘I was gutted when he did something special’. “What he did for this football club, how he led us to win those trophies, Hendo was instrumental in that.”Jordan Henderson was one of a select few, outside of his family, that Robertson talked to before announcing his own Anfield exit.

He’s absolutely buzzing.”Robertson (left) hopes former teammate Jordan Henderson (right) gets a good reception at Anfield (PA)Robertson will share his Anfield farewell with Mohamed Salah (Reuters)It is typical of Robertson’s generosity of spirit that, unprompted, he refers to Oxlade-Chamberlain as Liverpool’s best player until he suffered a cruciate ligament injury in the 2018 Champions League semi-final. “I was s***ing myself,” he recalled.

“Even when I go back to my first game against Crystal Palace, to have your song sung in the first game, I was thinking: ‘Are they singing about another player?’ I think there’s only two players who have had that now – me and Freddie Woodman,” he said. Manchester City could testify, too, to his energy; his famous one-man press against Pep Guardiola’s team in January 2018, closing down five opponents, showed him he was good enough and left him with one gripe.Robertson struggled for game-time in his early days at Liverpool (Getty Images)“I still don't think it's a foul,” he said of his challenge on Nicolas Otamendi.