Albion have sent condolences to family and friends of their former player Lammie Robertson, who has died at the age of 76.

Robertson scored eight goals for the club between his arrival from Halifax midway through the disastrous 1972-73 season and his departure to Exeter City at the end of the following campaign.

He was part of the team managed by Brian Clough in the 1973-74 season.

A versatile player, Robertson mainly operated up front for Albion and was seen as a popular, hard-working and unselfish member of the side.

In a piece for the Albion club website, Spencer Vignes wrote: “Lammie was a centre-forward of the old school variety – tough, rugged, selfish when he needed to be in front of goal, unselfish in terms of putting his body on the line for the benefit of others, a master of the dark arts of attacking play. “A bit of an assassin,” as he once put it. And yet a lovelier man you could not wish to meet.”

Robertson, who hailed from Paisley, had been suffering from prostate cancer.