Nottingham Forest are two wins away from the Champions League. Yes, really...

The two stars covering the Trent End before kick-off said it all.“A European heritage…forged long ago…now rediscovered,” read the banner below. European conquerors Nottingham Forest, decades on from their logic-defying success, were back.In the late 1970s, Forest’s unrepeatable run from the second tier of English football to the second of two European Cups, all in the space of just four seasons, didn’t make much sense. It was largely created by the unexplainable genius of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor.Advertisement