The mythical Nottingham Forest era

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His time has come. 23 years after the historic Nottingham Forest will find an opportunity to return to Premier League in the promotion playoff final of Championship which will take place on May 29 at Wembley before him Town of Huddersfield. He stands out in this final without suffering, because despite a 1-2 win in the first leg of the semifinals against Sheffield UnitedThe group of Steve Cooper had to make a penalty shootout after falling with the same result in the second leg. The goal Samba He is the hero with three stops.

Isn’t the Nottingham Forest any club. Founded in 1865, it just has more than just its windows european cup than the national leagues and one of the five Englishmen who were able to lift the trophy of the champion of the highest competition in Europe including Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea Y Aston Villa. On his list of winners there are also four League Cups, two FA Cup and one Community Shieldachieved at different times, in addition to a European Super Cup.

His works from the late 1970s remain in the memory, including brian clough as a coach, Trevor Francis as a figure or a legend as Peter Shilton reference to the purpose. After winning the league for the first time in the 1977-78 campaign, it premiered on european cup the next and ended up being the champion. After deleting Liverpool, AEK Athens, Grasshopper and Colognewon the final Malmo Swedish 1-0, with a goal from Francis in the 45th minute.

He repeated this method of participation the following season and became champion again. they fell Osters, Arges Pitesti, Dinamo Berlin and Ajax before knocking down in the final hamburg from Kevin Keegan Y felix magathwhich in turn removed the real Madrid then came back from 2-0 down and ended up scoring 5-1. The final result was 1-0, with two John Robertson in 20 minutes.

They were golden years which he also won European Super Cup of 1979 before the FC Barcelonadefeat in 1980 against Valencia. He also fell in the 1980 Intercontinental, against National Uruguayan. In 1979 the English club refused to participate and the European representative was the Malmo.

After the same successful decade in the 1980s, especially in cup tournaments, Nottingham had ups and downs in the 1990s where they combined good seasons with promotions and relegations until reaching the final. Championship in 1999. It went even further, because in 2004-2005 it fell to League Onefrom which he did not return until 2007-08.

Not many opportunities have been shown to him since then to get back to Premier and is now faced with an incomparable. Ang Town of Huddersfield is the last obstacle in the way of a historical presence that will give luster to Premier League.

Source: La Verdad

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