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Memorias de un magnífica muralla en Madrid en mayo por Nottingham Forest

40 years ago Forest did the incredible and retained the European Cup, beating Hamburger SV in Madrid with a goal from, who better? - John Robertson. This time, unlike Munich 1979, I did make it, even though I can remember precious little about the trip. So this is it - the very last blog report in my Forest 40 years ago series. I hate to think how many hours I've spent researching, stealing images and ideas from the web, and then reassembling them on these pages over the last few years but it's definitely been a labour of love. I have to thank my old uni mate, Andrew Smales, for encouraging me (especially early on) and I probably wouldn't have done it without that encouragement. Although at one time I used to regularly get over 2,000 views of these posts (true, they could have just clicked once and then closed the page down straight away) but that number dropped considerably when the Forest fans' Facebook site got taken down and at least three new ones, with far fewer