Nottingham Forest 2-0 Liverpool, European Cup 1978-79

It would never happen these days, but in September 1978, the English champions, Nottingham Forest, were drawn against the European champions, Liverpool, in the opening round of the European Cup. It proved to be a classic encounter. Brian Clough's Forest prevailed 2-0 on aggregate and then went on to win the competition that season. The commentator at the City Ground was Hugh Johns.

[@tonybrown5071]

I was in the Bridgford End that night standing just behind the goal so I got a great view of Colin Barretts goal. For me that put a different spin on the tie and we went to Anfield with an advantage that gave us a fighting chance. The rest is history but wow what talent was on that pitch that night. Memorable times.

[@gordonferrar7782]

I could watch this all day I'm obsessed with the matches from the past. Everything about it songs to my should 22 British and Irish lads giving no quarter football as it should be played.

[@Giuseppe_Bruschi]

some genuine men playing some genuine football. greets from Italy

[@leehogg6248]

We miss the old British style of honest, hard football.

[@brendanhigginson7996]

@leehogg6248boring less technical footy yeah we all do

[@basylpeterjones]

​@@brendanhigginson7996Modern football has to be less technical than earlier eras.

[@justo.roberto]

What a great player Woodcock was.

[@chloesdad1000]

I remember this was the start of the love / hate relationship between Forest and Liverpool and of course Cloughy. As a Liverpool fan I have to say that Cloughy was up there with the gods. Forest fans should be proud of him as he was a diamond.

[@kmully8873]

Yeah. Remember what he said about Liverpool fans in 89 ???!!!?

[@jasongray4517]

​@@kmully8873 For which he later apologised.

[@spacemunky8164]

The red kens have always been scabs! Same old scabbers scabbing again... They scabbed on the miners and Robin fkn hood! 🎶

[@Emjay6175]

Liverpool were the best team in Europe 76/77/78. Forest were mid-table Div 2 in 76. Forest played Liverpool 6 times in 10 month over 77/78 and these 2 legs at start of 78/79, were unbeaten and conceded 1 goal. It says all you need to know about Clough that before the 2nd leg of this match (a 0-0) Shankly came to see Brian. Respect for our legends.

[@dodithesecond6892]

👍😅

[@vincentmcnabb939]

Clough and Taylor's transformation of Forest is surely the greatest feat ever in modern football management. Truly remarkable. As a Celtic fan, I think Clough and Taylor were the greatest of them all.🍀

[@KryptonitetoallBS]

Wonderful football from Forest under Clough the genius. As a Manchester United supporter I can't tell you how much joy games like this gave me and my pals who followed many different clubs ...Rangers, Celtic, etc. We all used to go round a pal's house with a few tins and watch. We loved this result....Magic!!!

[@maximus3233]

Beautiful football from Nottingham Forest. Art of Counter Attack. Amazing Goals & Skills from Forest players 👍🏻

[@Redpaw000]

What a time for Forest fans, two legend GK's in the game along with all those great players and managers.

[@vordman]

Hell, there was some talent at the City Ground that night. On the pitch, in the dug-outs...and in the Commentary Box.

[@thewomble1509]

Great comment sir!

[@illumencouk]

Quite possibly one of the most exciting attacking front lines I've ever seen. They're fast, direct, intelligent players. They made us look very ordinary at times. Well played Forest.

[@paulbradshaw303]

I didn't remember it this way, but Woodcock was On fire this night.

[@illumencouk]

@@paulbradshaw303 Admittedly I'm describing this based upon a small data set, while your data set consists of a lifetimes worth. Good on yer. They outplayed us that day and credit where it's due, but I gather by your comments this performance was more the exception, than the norm?:-)

[@paulbradshaw303]

@@illumencouk For an year or so it felt like Forest had a hold on Liverpool. This great Liverpool team couldnt score against Forest. My memory tells me Forest were based on solid defence with clean counter attacking. Watching this video reminds me they were more attacking than i remembered. As your comment says direct and pacey. Great times. To the credit of Paisley he made some strategic personnel changes that put Liverpool ahead again in the next few years. These two teams were ahead of their time for me.

[@illumencouk]

@@paulbradshaw303 For me, the beauty is fading fast from The Beautiful Game and 'she' looks less like I remember her, than ever. I prefer playing instead. I'm 54 but don't look a day over 92!

[@illumencouk]

@@paulbradshaw303 The Boot Room mentality began with Shankly and this effectively would breed a future of continuity. Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Roy Evans were the clubs true identity and values.

[@robertmorley3609]

When you see this style of football and measure it against that of today, which I call "possession without purpose", there is no comparison. You hardly saw a back-pass in the video.

[@Kafkaesque117]

Robert Morley then again this is just a highlight reel

[@Mr.A..]

bit of a stretch mate

[@gollick]

Kafkaesque 003 true but football was very attacking back then. Depends what you like, but it was entertaining.

[@stefanschilde723]

Yeah, because defending obviously was so bad that the defensive midfielders or even defenders were able to walk deep into the opponent's half without getting challenged seriously. Today you can't do that unless you want to lose every 2nd ball without even crossing the midline.

[@basylpeterjones]

​@@stefanschilde723Modern teams have to have less ability and slower thinking ability, by definition.

[@AndyStoker-mv9ne]

I was there! Forest fans pinching themselves all season - very difficult to convey the excitement of those first 3 seasons back in the top flight - and European nights like this

[@chasam1234]

The pitch was in amazing condition.. I was in the Trent End I think Liverpool had 10k in the ground ..Great game , Great Atmosphere …Barrett volley underrated goal build up etc.

[@boxingjerapah]

Gutted at the time, but in retrospect that Forest team were a true marvel, winning back to back European Cups was amazing. You can see LFC's weakness here - no top class striker to go with this amazing midfield. Then Ian Rush arrived in 1980 ....

[@philipraiswell3570]

Superb stuff from Forest. Great second goal.

[@RobCLynch]

Forest were a right thorn in our side. We could do nothing good at the City ground and Forest were almost impossible to beat. It is truly remarkable what Clough and Taylor built at Nottingham Forest.

[@winny8420]

John McGovern said that his Nottingham Forest stopped Liverpool winning trophies

[@RobCLynch]

@@winny8420 no doubt about it. It was an epic battle through the late 70s.

[@RobCLynch]

Liverpool won it 77 and 78 so this was hard to take. But Forest were so strong and credit where it is due. They were a right thorn in our side for many years and Liverpool never did much at the city ground.

[@wleon4068]

I well remember these matches between these two juggernnauts of English and European football at the time. They were titanic clashes. Being drawn against Forest, in 1979 drew gasps of disbelief. We, [Liverpool] knew just how hard that draw would be. Forest had a tremendous team back then, I have to give credit where credit is due. To look at where Forest are now, must frustrate their supporters so much.

[@TrickytreeMunich]

+W Leon What an excellent well balanced comment, just wish that we (Forest) could of had better decision making at board level after Brian Clough finished to maintain our status in the top flight, oh to have a history as rich as Liverpool's. The frustration felt by the fans as you so rightly put it is spot on and must also be felt by Liverpool fans at their lack of a Premier League title after dominating the old 1st Division.

[@wleon4068]

The frustration about the lack of Premier League Titles is acute, believe me. I do believe however, [in reference to your club] that they [Forest] will be back at some point in the future. As for us, Liverpool, we will go on to win the Premier League with Klopp.

[@TrickytreeMunich]

W Leon I agree what you say about Liverpool and the Premier League, Klopp will build a good side given time, Forest on the other hand have fallen along way behind, good luck in the Europa Final on May 18th. win it and you will have entry back into next season's Champions League.

[@andrewtucker94]

'To look at where Forest are now, must frustrate their supporters so much.' Mate, tell me about it.

[@waltt5134]

Would you believe, in communist Poland, way back some 40 years ago those 2 matches between Liverpool and Ferest were broadcast live. There was only ONE !! tv channel in those days.

[@APublicDomain]

Commentary's great.. much better than todays bilge

[@ossyable]

APublicDomain Hugh johns unique personable and poetic style. World Cup final commentator for ITV around this time

[@roddyteague6246]

Hugh Johns was a class act. Known as Huge Ones to his mates due to his excessive generosity when pouring gin!!

[@vordman]

The legendary Hugh Johns. Star Soccer on Sunday afternoons and the aroma of roast beef coming from the kitchen. Happy times, I'd go back if I could.

[@elshadjafar2437]

Good day. Thank you so much for the nice video. Enjoyed and liked of course. Bravo! Greetings from country Azerbaijan

[@giuseppeachilli8180]

💩💩💩

[@Macca1000001]

This shows how the previous format for this trophy was much tougher than the current format.

[@Geokinkladze]

Really? Liverpool, AEK Athens, Grasshopper, FC Koln, Malmo

[@sidvicious05]

@@Geokinkladze yeh they were their countries champions at the time

[@Geokinkladze]

@@sidvicious05 And? Malmo are Swedish champions but aren't even good enough to play in Europa League. Swiss champions Young Boys actually qualified for the champs league once and finished last in their group. That's one of their better performances.

[@ballymeister]

@@Geokinkladzeyou do realise back then malmo we’re more or less top 5 teams in the world? Proves u have 0 ball knowledge if u can’t understand that the best teams change, just like how Man City and Manchester United were shit teams back then

[@michaelcleary4992]

I’ll crack the jokes…

[@womba68]

i remember watching the highlights that night and being happy that forest won. tony woodcock was electric.

[@marksmith4448]

Two provincial clubs made great by Clough/Taylor. Who could ever do that? And Robertson , the greatest winger the world has seen.

[@seangoodwin3046]

The "fat lad on the left," as the coach liked to call him.

[@jamiewilson5679]

Don't know about the best ever but one of most underrated and least talked about,he was class.

[@robinstevenson1098]

The Gothenburg goal, the foot switch, he was unplayable.

[@dazzaMusic]

Cloughies tactics: get the ball to John Robertson whenever possible

[@grahamredmond3891]

​@@jamiewilson5679he wasn't underrated

[@walterwhite3018]

forest were brilliant back then ynwa

[@davidwalsh4628]

Forest were almost unbeatable for a season, but the following season Liverpool won the league again and broke all kinds of records!

[@thebeatnumber]

You'll Never Wank Alone

[@EmeryBall]

@@thebeatnumber now you will

[@thebeatnumber]

@@EmeryBall Personal experience?

[@EmeryBall]

@@thebeatnumber I though you said walk alone

[@Mike____]

Now this is some proper commentary!

[@davidandrews8963]

Thankyou David John for these I've been a Forest fan 40+ years I'm 52 now I remember most of these and where I was and my name is David Jon Andrews no bull so cheers

[@tomang71]

Listen many great players in there. Souness, Dalglish etc…but i tell you what…John Robertson of Forest was truly world class. Football talent wise well above everyone else.

[@jameskelly2559]

Not sure even Robbo would say he was well above Dalglish in football talent 😂

[@Geokinkladze]

Above Dalglish?!?

[@robinstevenson1098]

Scotland never gave him a proper shot, Willie Jonstone and Archie Hutcheson. Spoiled for choice!

[@robinstevenson1098]

He’s not doing Kenny’s job, but he was lethal. Won them two European cups. Crossed one scored one. The fat man sings!

[@robinstevenson1098]

And he scored a goal and did two guys for Francis. 2 cups.legend?

[@salahfaisal3515]

I'm a Chelsea fan, but Nottingham is a team with a really good history and I enjoyed their performance in these moments..thanks adrian💙

[@captainslog6739]

John Robertson football genius

[@robcost3605]

back in the day english teams rule in european football.

[@thomas-fq1wi]

Unbelievable the amount of great Scottish players on show there I was always amazed that the guy who captained notts forest to two European cup wins John McGovern couldn't get in a Scotland squad, can you imagine that nowadays

[@gibson617ajg]

Notts Forest? Notts County, Nottingham Forest. County are actually in the City of Nottingham. Forest aren't - the boundary is Trent Bridge. Just ask any County fan - if you can find one......

[@akrogirl32]

Supposedly, Ally MacLeod, the manager of Scotland, didn’t know that McGovern was Scottish!

[@thomas-fq1wi]

@@gibson617ajg i know since i made that comment ive read you should never say notts forest 🤣

[@CTID-9320]

I used to love these games under the lights. Classics

[@Arctic_Fox_NFFC]

A very tough, physical game produced two very classy goals.

[@galidia1]

Was there that day,stood in the Bridgford End, right behind where Barrett knocked in the 2nd goal :)

[@francisfallon6470]

Me too, its about the only goal I remember Barrett soring, but you just knew that that was such an important golal.

[@grezjoseph6257]

I Was 13 at the time this game was played and, was allowed to stay up and watch the highlights on TV. It started about 10.30pm and was a school night. Just shows you how times have changed. kids out now till all hours and Mums and Dads don't give a toss. It was a treat to stay up, and you had to have been good all day. My team then was Oldham Athletic but i was still thrilled to watch these to great teams playing in both legs. We have lost so much in Football to money and greed , Football in the 70s was and still is the best. Even at Oldham Athletic.

[@peterm1042]

Forest were unstoppable for two seasons

[@2468pebble]

Missed it as I couldn't get a ticket, but saw the rest of Forest's home ties, 12-5 in 3 games. Wonderful memories.

[@rankstein]

I fucking love this! Shearer and Hansen would have a field day analysing all the tackles. Even the more graceful players were tough bastards. Amazed at all the home grown talent. Nowadays the best British players are over the fucking park on a Sunday morning.

[@samcrofts789]

lol the world's worst pundits! haha

[@LoscoeLad]

or in the boozer.. or mcdonalds!

[@markwalley6876]

Tony woodcock was a class act an immense player,must have been a nightmare defending against him as Liverpool found out that night...

[@brianhaskard1042]

Souness pretending to be concerned, he thought it was red. Birtles what a start.

[@robbeadle9487]

Sourness ,dirty player ,and a crap manager

[@tenrgn]

Nothing better than a European Cup match under floodlights with Brian Moore doing the commentary. The European Cup so much better than the Champions League format, one poor away performance was potentially game over

[@Funeeman]

The commentator is Hugh Johns.

[@tenrgn]

@@Funeemanyou’re right, my bad🤦

[@kegalormoon]

What a game just watched this this was just before my time but loved all these players and teams but forest were a smashing side growing up watching them with Keane always an enigmatic type of side done well recently Steve Cooper guy seems a good manager an the lad colbecks goal was like matrco van Basten goal v WBA great watch thanks for uploading 👍

[@paulbradshaw303]

One amazing forest team. Everyone knew they played through Robertson yet for years no-one could stop him. Genius of Taylor and Clough to turn Burns into a sweeper.

[@LordFlashheart0767]

The good old days of football when players had respect for each other, didn't roll around on the grass crying 24/7 and didn't complain to the refs every time a free kick wasn't given.

[@keithbate9405]

+JHIndependence not sure about that. Tacks from behind were legal. many over the top tackles (illegal) and elbows flying . Charges on Goalies common. But maybe it was a more "manly " era. Players' did not feign injury and always tried to "get on with it" ps maybe the continental influence led to play acting

[@pigstrotterspg4841]

And they always had British players playing for them (apart from Grobelaar and Heighway)

[@deankeith830]

JHIndependence I notice how much respect Souness had for Woodcock when he tried to cripple him !

[@Puppy-lt5ur]

pigs trotters pg Heighway is British

[@justclosing]

No, Heighway is Irish

[@SamTex69]

Well, THAT was football! Thanks for uploading.

[@darren2514fv]

ITV covered the 2-0 to Forest first leg at The City Ground and BBC covered the 0-0 2nd Leg at Anfield

[@weebolddavy]

Fantastic British talent on show in this brilliant match. All about teamwork, just like the brilliant Leeds squad earlier in the decade. Too much money in the modern game, not enough loyalty. The fans remain loyal shame the players don't

[@Biggestisland]

weebolddavy j

[@LoscoeLad]

leeds were thugs

[@notoriouseagle1074]

This would be the last all English EC tie until Arsenal and Chelsea faced off in the Quarterfinals in 2004. In the entire history of the EC/UCL, It's only happened 14 times with one of those being a group stage set of games between Chelsea and Liverpool for there to be an all English showdown.

[@frankmachin5438]

Phil Thompson was ‘skinned’ so many times that night...spent more time on his back than on his feet

[@RichGriffiths99]

Woodcock = superb here. V intelligent play.

[@neil5307]

I was there... I remember the Colin Barratt goal.. the surprise that he scored.. the big crowd... you could barely move...... no one was picking him up, he seemed to have space on a few occasions...

[@thinkaboutit6832]

I can remember been 9 8 years old watching this........Born in Leeds, amazing team!

[@jamesbeaton7010]

That'll make you a 144 years old now!! Please, tell me what your secret is!!!

[@thinkaboutit6832]

@@jamesbeaton7010 no sleep

[@Biggestisland]

This is good football. Unlike the diving Prima donnas of today ...wth happened?

[@transmissionggb2820]

This was when Liverpool and forest played pass the European cup, if you wanted to win it you had to beat one of these two great sides as Aberdeen FC found out in 1980-81 season and we were told a lesson in how to play in Europe. It was a lesson Fergie made sure him and his team would learn from. With our young up and coming stars that would win just about everything we played in from 82-86 under Fergie including our cup winners cup final against Real Madrid and super cup win which was 2 legs v Hamburg "who stopped the English grip on the European cup in 83" also we beat UEFA Cup holders Ipswich in 81-82 season and that was a big upset as Ipswich were challenging these two great teams in England as well as winning the UEFA cup, we were expected to get well beaten again but a lot of young players broke through that season and a new player Peter Weir ripped them apart. So as much as it hurt at the time getting beat 5-0 in aggregate, it was a lesson we did learn a lot from as did Fergie who then went on to dominate the English league at United.

[@ewantaylor4478]

One of the *******s crocked John McMaster

[@wallflower1100]

Gary Birtles takin the piss out of Phil Thomson, classic.

[@chrisbennett606]

Great skills by Gary birtles

[@chrisbennett606]

Love the commentator brings a lot of excitement ,passion and intelligence to the match commentary . what's his name

[@SMSJSC]

Hugh Johns of ITV. Yes, a very fine commentator.

[@chrisbennett606]

Stuart S brilliant commentator I think he covered and did the 1970 World Cup as I've got all the England and Brazil games from that World Cup on DVDs .the year I was born. Again excellent commentator . Commentators today are no were near on the same level and intelligent standard as they were in the 70s and 80s with the likes jhon helm,motson,Barry Davis, and morro of the big match.

[@mozzaXtutti]

questo è il calcio che mi piace!!!

[@CoherentChimp]

Some tasty tackles but no rolling about Neymar style. Great stuff!

[@ottconsulting4499]

What an achievement by Forest - beating the reigning European champions and the best team of the ''70's - Clough was a genius.

[@ewanmacfarlane9195]

What a beautiful old stadium

[@gibson617ajg]

I was there. If I had passed out I wouldn't have fallen over, the crowd was packed in. Bridgford End, in front of the scoreboard.

[@georgehorniman]

the two best goalkeepers in the world at opposite ends

[@ayyguevara8448]

c'mon mate, they were both brilliant but neither could get near Dino Zoff.

[@LeeBeardshall]

You wish ​@@ayyguevara8448

[@dondealga]

Cloughie...Paisely....coaching legends!

[@samcrofts789]

SAF = greater than them combined! Certainly won far more trophies than them combined!

[@dondealga]

Paisley is a giant in pantheon of coaching greats..Cloughie a one-off who in his prime worked magic. In a "bang for ur buck" analysis they have to rank bove sir a.

[@thebeatnumber]

@John Cornell Well if you're still alive and Corona hasn't laid you out, for 20 years between 1993 and 2013, Manchester United under SAF *NEVER* finished outside the 3 in the EPL. 13 times 1st place, 5 times 2nd place and 2 times 3rd place. That's the greatest stretch of success ever enjoyed by one Manager in history of European football. More than Paisley, Shankley and Clough combined.

[@RobCLynch]

Let's not forget Peter Taylor.

[@abangdape]

@John Cornell please don't bring up logic when talking to "those" fans

[@kevinprior3549]

Would have been a good rivalry for a good 2 to 3 years between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. Not just in England but for European glory.

[@ushojedi]

Actual football! It really is a great game when real men play it. Not diving, cheating, untouchable millionaire advertising lackeys.

[@fisherpeter695]

My own team Everton finished the 1976-77 season strongly after Gordon Lee took over. On the opening day of the 77-78 season we played newly promoted Forest at Goodison. They outplayed the blues and I recall the width of the team and players like Larry Lloyd very strong in defence. They won 3-1 and you feared the worst. Everton went undefeated until December that year. And forest won the title No wonder the late Bobby Robson hailed Brian Clough the ironmonger. He built great teams out of raw materials. Today we see overpaid players nowhere near the standard on offer in this game.

[@sohaibfazal6528]

At 10:17 you can see the trend of forward passes instead of backpasses like today.

[@davidreed1995]

Liverpool and nottingham forest were top teams then two great mangers has well

[@Rockthecasbah3535]

Birtles was a carpet fitter playing for Long Eaton Utd.Then Cloughie signs him for Nottingham Forest.

[@andylane247]

In the Trent end thar night. Happy days. Liverpool were the team to beat.

[@fisterklister]

No club has cashed in on their moment in the sun like forest. Clough and Taylor were the greatest duo.

[@Tom-jg2ss]

9:20 lovely dummy from Woodcock.

[@socialoutcast6234]

Tom Carolan what a name 😂😂

[@robinstevenson1098]

Sublime arse turn from Kenny as well.. Enjoyable fitba!

[@sallysmith1484]

Great days - when the first division in England was overwhelmingly made up of British players. Now it's highly-paid foreign mercenaries, a disgrace. It's the "English" Premier League in name only...

[@sallysmith1484]

Shukin Andjivin Are you delusional? Thanks for giving me a good laugh though.

[@soundpark_]

Stop the hate.

[@dondealga]

The English national soccer team lags behind performance of national soccer teams of Spain, Germany, Brazil etc....Top English players rarely play abroad for other European clubs. It is common for Latin American and continental European players to play for top clubs outside their own countries. Insularity is killing the development and quality of English players.

[@MrJeepsters]

Pas faux.

[@hassanmonnan7526]

Young English players dont care, and no ones stopping younger brits to go abroad n play, alot of these foreigners do it

[@nrsajnrjas963]

كان عشقي إفريقي المفضل نوتنغهام الذي كان أول فريق يرقد المنتخب الانكليزي بلاعب ملون فيف أندرسون

[@Mustaine1ify]

When Lloydy was running "The Stage Door" in town, me and a mate of mine went to pick up a 2nd hand wardrobe the he was flogging. I'd just moved in to my first flat at the time and wanted something cheap. Anyway Lloydy appears in a towel and says "What fucking time do you call this" I said 8.20, and he said "Just fuck off and come back later I've just got up" I didn't bother going back. Classic Lloydy lol.

[@alexandros38a]

vendo esse jogo, vejo q o futebol bom é aquele simples....aquele, q o Brasil esqueceu

[@patbrett3031]

What a night!! I was there in the Trent end!!

[@watteva3896]

People bitching about "foriegn" players today limiting the development of English players? What better development is there than to play against the best players you can? Besides these 2 teams had a solid core of non English players. Liverpool Heighway Souness Dalglish, previously Toshack Jones, Cormack Yates Larwence St john, soon to sign Laurenson, Hansen, Grobblaer, Rush, Whelan, Cohen, Beglin, Gillespie Forest. Gray Burns Gemmill O'Neill Robertson McGovern O'Hare. Scotland qualified for the 1978 world cup with many of the players above. I think that the development of young Engkish players today is more down to how much football they play online rather than in the park.

[@thewomble1509]

It doesn't help but the main problem is desperation for short term success at the expense of longer term stability. Young british talent is swamped by foreigners who are no better and often not as good.

[@gwangi64]

I was at this game in the old East Stand. I'm from Nottingham but was a Liverpool supporter at the time, although I tried not to make it obvious being surrounded by Forest fans. When Barrett scored at the end quite a few had obviously sussed me out and were shoving me in the back! There was also a Forest fan near me who spent the whole match shouting foul-mouthed abuse at the Forest captain John McGovern.

[@seangoodwin3046]

John McGovern - When you qualify for Europe, you think Paris or Madrid, maybe. Who'd we draw? Liverpool. Great. A free trip to Liverpool. McGovern added that Clough flipped the script in motivating the players. "If you don't want to play them, just imagine how much they don't want to play you." That did it.

[@geoffpoole483]

One can see McGovern's point; the squad were expecting a foreign team so getting drawn against Liverpool would have been an anti-climax; especially considering few of them had played in European competition.

[@stevogeezer]

great footage ...happy days

[@mvdiablo]

The 2nd goal was nice work by the interceptor he stopped it twice made a run to the box & scores the goal I think...

[@jasonclark658]

That night in Nottingham was electric

[@BelfastManUtdTherapy]

Whose here from the overlap martin O'Neill show? Great football. Fast and furious, all footballers. Now too many are glorified olympic level athletes.

[@cameronstracey8696]

Tonu woodcock absolutely class in this match clever runs and eating up the ground in front of him

[@paulwakenell9758]

Two Great sides with proper players no rolling around

[@andystoker6961]

I was there that night. Few Forest fans could believe it ... we had scraped into the First Division via the play-offs and initially hoped only that we might survive more than one season before dropping back. Then we won the First Division Championship with an astonishing record. Then This .... heady days indeed.

[@pigstrotters4198]

And I was in Cologne to see them win the semi-final 1-0 after the 3-3 draw at Forest. Unfortunately standing at the wrong end.

[@geoffpoole483]

The play-offs didn't exist when Clough and Taylor got Forest promoted in 1977. They finished 3rd and I don't think anyone expected them to do much in their first season back in the top tier.

[@johnhanson5943]

Great memories.

[@ayubelmi7370]

42 years ago that club Nottingham Forest 🌳 made history back to back 1978 to 1979 again 1979 to 1980 European Cup champions . The 1979 European Super Cup was played Between Nottingham Forest 🌳 and Barcelona with Nottingham Forest 🌳 winning 🏆 2-1 on aggregate those days 🔥! Man the owner has big club let him invest or else let him sell the club to the Arabs Habiib people have the money to invest the club as you see Newcastle the way the performance 🎭 Premier League 3rd place where big club Nottm Forest 🌳 is the last 3 bottom ! Actually Nottingham Forest 🌳 is big club than Man city, Arsenal, Tottenham, and PSG ! The problem is the owner fuck !! How are they feeling the legends 1979 back to back European Champions am really sorry for them but the Legacy still alive!

[@philipglaister5160]

I’m reading a lot of carp about Liverpool being the best side in Europe during this time. Twaddle. They were the best side in the World.

[@tenrgn]

I remember Radio City in Liverpool had Bill Shankly & Clive Tyldsley doing the commentary & after Gary Birtles scored the 1st goal CT commented that 3 weeks ago nobody had heard of Gary Birtles to which Shanks replied “Well they’ve fcuking heard of him now” & slammed his headset down. Classic radio & apparently not 1 complaint recieved

[@geoffpoole483]

I think Birtles was signed from a non-league team.

[@tenrgn]

@@geoffpoole483he was

[@Joanne248]

European cup. .what a competition. ... 2 leg matches

[@redflag8970]

in reality forest stopped that liverpool team winning 5 on the spin

[@davidlawlor4317]

Nobody gives that Liverpool side enough credit for how absolutely filthy they were. Not one or them were afraid been to leave a boot in.

[@muhammadafiq8133]

When football was played by men...

[@cyrilrogan4069]

Great players,no gloves (except the two great keepers) No stockings,Snoods,heated sub seats,Hugs in the tunnel,proper tackles,no diving, or rolling about,no carpet surfaces (or slippers)....where did it all go wrong???

[@horrortackleharry]

Must have been early in the season- the City Ground 'pitch' was usually 80% wet sand & mud.

[@dionysiaex5538]

It was mid-September.

[@salimtufail]

4:10 and 9:21 Two fantastic dummies. One by Dalglish, and one by Woodcock.

[@pigstrotters4198]

Tony Woodcock could have been in the UK 100m sprint. Fuck, he was fast.

[@justclosing]

Chelsea, Arsenal, ManU (Liverpool) have all fielded at one time a team with not one Briton. Disgusting. It was wonderful to support British teams against the European mainland teams. But now, you don't know which player is playing for which team,you don't know from which country he comes from, especially if they're gone after 1 or 2 seasons. It's all money now, that's why I've lost all interest. They should best investing in the youth, not making short-time profit. I wasn't ever a ManU fan , but they made the right steps in creating United of Manchester.

[@SMSJSC]

Couldn't agree more. Not interested in club football at all anymore. To me, there's no pride in supporting your own team which is choc-full of foreign mercenaries, who just want the money and couldn't give two hoots about the club.

[@abhiroopdey]

You need to start following Tottenham in that case.

[@leehogg6248]

Reading this I thought it was one of my rants. I actually had to scroll back up to check lol. You obviously know what you're talking about.

[@widerspacefanz4316]

Back then Wales and Scotland were the foreigner that been mostly into the english league tho

[@rohithraman6488]

@@SMSJSC I think your comment suggests that you're tarring all foreign players with the same brush. I honestly believe that most footballers have passion these days as in before, but it's just the minority who don't that get all the attention, and it's just sad how fans don't appreciate players these days who do care. When they watch videos of other players in the past around 15-20 years ago showing passion people are like "what great passion" whereas now when players show passion there are people all over social media saying "well why should I feel happy about this, they're getting paid x amounts a week, that's their job", so they basically loved players having passion in the past but now they say "it's their job"