ANDY Robertson is acclimatising to the limelight.

The most intensive 10-day stretch of his football life concludes this afternoon with a live televised Barclays Premier League match for Hull City against Tottenham Hotspur, and if his last two outings are anything to go by, the UK-wide audience is in for a treat.

The description "overnight success" scarcely does justice to the 20-year-old, whose senior debut for Queen's Park came as recently as August 4, 2012, a 3-2 League Cup win in front of 622 people. He now has five caps and one goal for Scotland, all seemingly achieved with such ease that one wonders where this quicksilver product of St Joseph's Primary School in Clarkston and Giffnock Boys Club might end up.

Having nullified the dual threat of Seamus Coleman and Aiden McGeady last Friday, Robertson was the name on everyone's lips, despite being partially culpable in at least two of England's three goals.

Celtic may have released him as a teenager due to his lack of height, but Gordon Strachan is committed to the player's development. This does, however, require the odd bawling out. With an hour gone on Tuesday night, and things looking desperate for Scotland at 2-0 down, one aimless, frustrated pass led to Robertson being shouted at by his manager from the technical area. It elicited the desired reaction but, as McGeady once found out to his cost whilst at Celtic, it is the curse of playing on the flank.

"That's the gaffer all in one," said Robertson. "It doesn't matter if you are winning 6-0, if you mis-place a pass he will be annoyed. Maybe I was a wee bit frustrated at that point. He was shouting at me and it helps having somebody being so vocal at the side of the pitch if you are letting your standards drop.

"Obviously we were getting beaten, but if we were winning he would still be the same. His style is that he wants to get the ball down and play and that's also the way I like to play. You see him running out to the touchline and shouting, but it's brilliant to have a manager like that. When you are playing well, it's good. When you are playing bad it's not so good. But you take that from the manager because of what he's done for the country, he's revived us all. What he has done has been incredible."

The Republic of Ireland and Scotland's teams are drawn from the same gene pool with players meeting up at Celtic, Everton, Sunderland and Derby County to discuss the situation in Group D. This kind of creative tension is also present at Hull, where Robertson will rejoin a dressing room featuring Stephen Quinn and Robbie Brady, against whom he was recently locked in combat.

"It was a wee bit weird, but we weren't team-mates on that day," said Robertson. "I think I might have had a wee shouting match with Quinny, but that was just in the heat of the battle. We hugged it out afterwards. We won't go in there boasting because we know we have to go to Ireland in June. Maybe after that, if we have done the double we can claim the bragging rights."

Robertson, of course, is not the only Scot at the KC Stadium. Keeper Allan McGregor is fast approaching his return from a shoulder injury, while cheerleader-in-chief for the Scotland cause is Robert Snodgrass, who is back running following a dislocated knee cap. Few have done more to encourage Robertson than the former Livingston, Leeds United and Norwich City player, who was in Glasgow on Friday night.

"He and Allan have been brilliant with me since I went down," said Robertson. "I can't thank them enough because it can be hard when you move further away from the family. Snoddy talks to me every day and tries to keep me going. His personality is different class - he could put a smile on anyone's face. He is back in the gym so I think he is a lot happier. When we see him on the training field again that will be a happy day."

Scotland star Andy Robertson was promoting the Tesco Bank Football Challenge in partnership with the Scottish FA.