from a book that will be released in time for Christmas.
If this passage is anything to go by (and I'm sure you will all know who the player in question is) it should be a mighty fine read
".....If you were writing a fictional film about football and had as the lead character a man who liked a drink and a smoke, was over-weight, generally scruffy-looking and had recently suffered a cartilage injury, then you had this man revive his career in a Second Division promotion campaign, you’d have something that might go in the same gritty realist bracket as This Sporting Lift. With a bit of artistic licence, you could maybe stretch the realms of possibility to have this loveable rogue be the key creative force of a team that stormed the First Division and won it with games to spare. But even Hollywood execs would laugh you out of the door if, for the final act, you had your hero go on to set up the winning goal in one European Cup Final and score the winner in a second… even if you had Brian Clough among the supporting cast!....."
http://nffcblog.com/2012/11/20/book-review-the-glory-of-forest/#comments
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Brian Clough's Forest career would make a fantastic film, about a bunch of misfits and a man with something to prove after falling from grace, against all the odds etc etc. Shame that we have to make do with that United crap.
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The problem was back then we thought it would never end and we began to take success for granted. We had three great teams the European Cup winning side, the team that qualified for successive UEFA Cups and then the team in the late 80s which was robbed of European football due to the ban.
If only we knew back then how bad it would get following our last relegation from the top flight I'm sure many of us would have appreciated it much more. I'd love season where we finished about eighth in the top flight, back in the eighties we were considering that to be a poor season.
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Nice anecdote, Rev
KingJacko
I bet if you knew what was coming, you'd have taken up something else, like tennis Seriously though, I think you make an interesting point about finishing eighth, then & now.
On the one hand, it shows the gap now between clubs of our ilk and the PL, what our aspirations are and the best we can (realistically) hope for - after many fallow years for both clubs. Another comparision is how Forest use to win the League Cup easily. Now the pair of us struggle to get past the early rounds. Or in our case, the first round.
I saw John Robertson at my first ever game, an end of season match between us & Brentford in the old Third.
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