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Tom Leach & Steve Wollaston

Is this Nottingham Forest's greatest ever team?

With football still in lockdown, we thought we'd take a look back to when NottinghamshireLive readers voted for the best ever Nottingham Forest players.

At the very top of your list was John Roberston, the Scottish midfielder, who was once described as "a little fat guy" by Brian Clough.

He topped the poll with a staggering 42 percent of the votes.

Stuart Pearce was a close second in the poll, picking up 26 percent of the votes.

Third went to Stan Collymore (nine percent), closely followed by Peter Shilton (eight percent) and Des Walker (three percent).

Martin O'Neill  and Roy Keane both made the list with a slim one percent of the vote each.

In total there were 13 other Garibaldi legends who received votes from supporters, leading us to ask the question:

Who would make the club's greatest ever XI?

Every week we asked you to nominate players on our Nottingham Forest Facebook page and then vote for a winner from each and every starting position.

From Peter Shilton to Wally Ardon to Robert Earnshaw, you voted in your thousands to whittle down the list.

This is what you came up with as Nottingham Forest's all-time greatest starting XI!

GK: Peter Shilton - 86%

Peter Shilton drinks heartily from the League Cup as he and his teammates tour Nottingham city in celebration. (PA)

RB: Viv Anderson - 80%

Viv Anderson playing for England (Getty Images)

CB: Des Walker - 57%

Forest defender Des Walker in action against Chelsea (Shaun Botterill/Allsport/Getty Images)

CB: Kenny Burns - 14%

Kenny Burns during his playing days at Forest (Steve Powell/Allsport)

LB: Stuart Pearce - 95%

Nottingham Forest Stuart Pearce delivers his war cry to the home supporters before an FA Carling Premiership match between Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur. (Photo by Phil Cole/Allsport/Getty Images)

RM: Steve Stone - 38%

CM: Roy Keane - 31%

Roy Keane (c) outpaces Alan Dickens (l) and Steve Clarke of Chelsea. Forest won the match 7-0. (Getty)

CM: John McGovern - 22%

Nottingham Forest captain John McGovern lifts the European Cup after his team's 1-0 win. Also pictured is Larry Lloyd (r) (EMPICS Sport)

LM: John Robertson (voted greatest ever player)

John Robertson scored the only goal against Hamburg in Madrid (Mirrorpix)

ST: Stan Collymore - 54%

ST: Ian Storey-Moore - 10%

Forest's Ian Storey Moore congratulated by teammate Alan Hinton after scoring the winning goal against Everton to complete his hat-trick in 1967 (Mirrorpix)
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