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Hopping over to Switzerland

40 years ago I was starting to do Ok at Nottingham University, despite spending what seemed all my time watching football or travelling to and from games. This particular day, and the day after, for instance, I spent at least 28 hours on a bus  travelling from Nottingham to Zurich and back with a few hours there in Switzerland to watch Forest get a 1-1 draw which sealed their place in the semi-finals. In this blog I'll continue from the first leg match two weeks ago that Forest won 4-1 to take a big step past Grasshopper Club Zurich. That involves a fairly big chunk of league football that had happened since (actually some before) the 1st leg tie. After reporting on Forest's Swiss success I'll finish by adding three more countries to my ever-growing "openness" table of European Leagues - Scotland, Poland and the old DDR. Because the blog post has been "re-purposed" from the first leg, you might want to scroll down a few pages to get to the second l...