Forest 40 years ago

Brian Clough and Peter Taylor had been building a team of world beaters for about two and a half years. Incredibly, half the team were taken from the pool of (what had seemed to many of us) fairly average second division players that were already at the club. John Robertson, Tony Woodcock, Viv Anderson and Martin O'Neill had come through the club's ranks whilst Ian Bowyer had been bought by the previous management. On top of this foundation, Clough brought in a number of players at very low cost to the club: Frank Clark, a free transfer from Newcastle United. Colin Barrett a snip of £30,000 from Manchester City. Larry Lloyd £60,000 from Coventry City. Peter Withe from Birmingham City for £44,000. John McGovern and John O'Hare from Leeds (for about £100,000 for both). With the arrival of Peter Taylor, things continued. Kenny Burns was added before the start of the season for £150,000. This team had already started the season incredibly well, winning their first three league ...

Having had their perfect start to the season stopped at Highbury , Forest looked to get back to winning ways quickly at the club we had to thank for getting us promoted last season, Wolves. Wolves, you may remember, had won 1-0 at Bolton to kill their dreams of promotion and hand it, instead, to Forest. Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Nottingham Forest 3 Molineaux This was my second visit to the famous old ground in the black country. Molineux was an iconic English football ground with a name that apparently originates from Benjamin Molineux, a local merchant who bought land and ended up owning "The Molineux Hotel" on which the stadium would eventually be built. It was the first stadium built for the football league but it wasn't their original ground. Recently the ground has been redeveloped to make it look like a more generic football stadium. Wolves were one of the original 12 football league teams that kicked off on 8th September 1888 ( a 1-1 draw away to local riv...