Scotland’s Andy Robertson relishing captaincy as McLeish hopes for new era

• Young Scot will lead team out to face Belgium at Hampden
• Robertson set to be deployed as wing-back alongside back three

Andy Robertson’s career regularly prompts flashbacks. The most pertinent one for now relates to 16 July 2014 and a Dundee United pre-season friendly at Station Park in Forfar. Robertson, a sought-after young full-back, donned the captain’s armband for the first time in his career and scored in a 2-2 draw. “I think that was maybe them trying to keep me there,” Robertson said with a smile on Thursday. “It was one of my last games for United.”

Four years on, as a Champions League runner-up and Liverpool regular, Robertson is the captain of his country. In what Alex McLeish and typically underwhelmed Scotland fans hope signifies the start of a bright new era, Robertson will lead the team out for the first time as Belgium visit Hampden Park on Friday for a friendly. The venue is significant to Robertson’s past; upon his release by Celtic as a youth he relaunched his career there with the amateur side Queen’s Park.

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