The schedule of international football means that the end of May marks many anniversaries of great triumphs. On May 28, 2022, for example, when the final of the Champions League between Real Madrid and the FC Liverpool will be played, Borussia Dortmund looks back on the final against Juventus Turin, which had been won a quarter of a century earlier.
May 28, 1980 is the date on which Nottingham Forest with a 1-0 win against Hamburg SV won the European Cup. Romantics rave about the competition because back then, in contrast to Champions League actually only state champions were represented.
That’s not entirely correct, however, as Forest had finished second in the English First Division the previous season. The Nottingham club, founded in 1865, had been there as the defending champions. In May 1979 he had won the national champion’s cup with a 1-0 win in the final against Malmö FF.
More European cups than national championships
Nottingham Forest is the only club to have won the most important trophy in European club football more often than a national championship. Peter Shilton was the name of the goalkeeper at the time Forest, Trevor Francis scored the goal against Malmo. Tony Woodcock was also there, he then switched to 1. FC Cologne in the Bundesliga.
Romantics and nostalgics will also, and above all, remember the name of the coach responsible for these achievements along with his assistant, also legendary PeterTaylor was responsible. Brian Clough is honored with a statue in the city, after him is a grandstand in the stadium, the City Ground, named. His face still adorns many fan scarves and murals in Great Britain murals called.
Brian Clough – big mouth, a lot behind it
Brian Clough was confident, to say the least. He doesn’t count himself among the best trainers in the business, but he sees himself as one “Top one“. This is one of the many sayings that the 2004 deceased clough are handed down. Another reads: “They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.” So: “They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they didn’t hire me to do it either.”
Big mouth, a lot behind it. So was Brian Cloughwho is already at Derby County along with PeterTaylor had worked successfully. But the story at Nottingham Forest was even better. She started for clough in January 1975. A good two years later he rose to the highest league with Forest, became champion straight away, won the League Cup in the same season and the European Cup for the next two years.
42 games without defeat
stayed across the seasons clough with Forest in 42 top division games unbeaten. It wasn’t until 2004, shortly before the legendary coach died, that he broke Arsenal FC under Arsène Wenger the record.
The face of Brian Clough was of course to be seen at the choreo, which took place on Tuesday (May 17th, 2022) in the City Ground was unrolled. The semi-finals in the promotion playoffs to premier league stood at. The first leg at Sheffield United had nottingham won 2-1.