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Francis Full Debut at Ipswich

I think they call it "re-purposing". I couldn't be bothered to write a whole new blog about Forest's match at Ipswich 40 years ago - Trevor Francis' full Forest debut, so I just bolted on an extra bit to the previous blog. After all, I posted the previous blog the day after Forest beat Derby so it kind of got swamped. Maybe this one will get a little more attention. So, as I was saying last time... All good things come to an end and 40 years ago it was another of Forest's amazing unbeaten sequences: our run of 49 home matches in all competitions. Who breached the City Ground fortress? Appropriately, perhaps, it was The Gunners. There was a lot of stuff going on around at that time and so this post is quite a mixed bag. Forest beat York City 3-1 in the F.A. Cup 4th Round on a white, snow-covered, pitch with an orange ball, so I pay tribute to club from the Yorkshire capital and their pretty impressive giant-killing exploits in the cup before their recent