'Calvin Ramsay will have Robertson to look after him. I had Hansen, Dalglish and Souness all winding me up!' Teenage Steve Nicol faced merciless taunts from Anfield countrymen but backs Scotland skipper to be brilliant mentor for Liverpool new boy

Resident on America’s east coast for the past 23 years, Steve Nicol’s broadcasting work with ESPN doesn’t encompass much coverage of Scottish football.

YouTube was his port of call when Liverpool moved to sign Calvin Ramsay. And what he saw on his screen proved startling.

‘Christ, I’m looking at myself here,’ Nicol laughingly recalls to Sportsmail. ‘He’s getting the ball at full-back and dribbling past people. He runs with the ball a lot. Right away, it reminded me of me!’

Nicol means when he was 19, a year older than Ramsay, and playing for Ayr United.