40 years ago Forest played arguably their most significant game in the whole Cloughie era. After a decidedly dodgy start to the season, with all sorts of worries up front after the bizarre sale of their top striker Peter Withe with no decent replacement in sight, they faced their first ever game in the European Cup as English League Champions. Cruelly, of all the teams they could have been drawn against in an era before the safety of group stages, when the draw wasn't even seeded, was another English club, the holders for the past two years, and previous league champions Liverpool. The Merseyside outfit's form at the start of the season was (apart from having been knocked out in the League Cup by Sheffield United) frightening, and in complete contrast to Forest's. They'd won all five of their opening league games, scoring 19 goals and conceding just one. Forest had drawn four and only won their first, albeit against Arsenal, the Saturday before, having scored just thr