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Liverpool matched by Forest

So this is it. The last blog for the last game of a fantastic season 40 years ago. It's been a labour of love writing these posts and I've learned a lot myself from doing so. Often it's resulted in embarrassment realising that I didn't know something, even though I was there, week after week. The latest example of that was just two days ago when I discovered Robbo had played in 239 consecutive games . How did I not know that? I had intended to write a piece about John anyway and was thinking of focusing on his contribution to our goals scored in terms of assists as I had a hunch it would be pretty spectacular. Turns out, over 50% of Forest's 104 goals that season were either scored or, to a significant extent, made by Robbo. I knew he'd had a long run of consecutive matches, like I'd reported for Tony Woodcock for the Villa away game, but I just didn't realise how long. I had it in my mind that Robbo, like Tony Woodcock and the others, must have had th