The end was nigh for the season 1977-78. Forest had secured their first (and only) English League championship and there were just two matches remaining. Forest's penultimate two games were both away to tough opposition: West Brom, who had knocked us out of the Cup 6th round a couple of months earlier, and had held us to a 0-0 draw at home - and in-form Liverpool, the previous league champions looking for revenge after their League Cup final defeat. Forest would score their last goals of the season at the Hawthorns so I want to pay particular attention to the scorer of the last of those goals - John Robertson. He was a very understated and under-rated player at the time but it's good to see that more accolades have come his way since those days. I must admit I myself had not realised some of the amazing stats that back up Robbo's undoubted brilliance. Penultimate match There were just nine games to play in the first division after the last full league programme of...