40 years ago, October 1979, Forest continued their great start to the season, challenging at the top of the first division, not getting knocked out of the League Cup, beating Swedish Champions, Osters Vaxjo and making a good start against the Romanian Champions, Argeș Pitești. In this blog I'll focus a little on Romania in 1979, under the iron fist of Nicolae Ceașescu and the ridiclous and brazen story of surely the most blatant football corruption ever. In today's traumatic world, it might be good to remember than 40 years ago things were much worse: Soviet tanks rumbling through the streets of Berlin, Famous Czech playwrights getting locked up for campaigning for basic human rights and Robert Mugabe shaping up to take power in Zimbabwe, for example. Forest's progress in Europe was particularly satisfying, as Liverpool were surprisingly knocked out in the First Round against the Champions of the USSR, from the Georgian part of the Soviet's Evil Empire, Dinamo Tblisi.