Nottingham Forest Great European Nights Remembered

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Yes, a great performance from a great team. Celtic were so confident of victory, even cocky but Forest went up there and rammed it down their throats.

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Nottingham Forest players celebrate victory over Barcelona in the Nou Camp Stadium in 1979 to win The Super Cup 2-1 on aggregate.

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It really happened!

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Barcelona on aggregate and yes it WAS a great Barcelona team just like it is now.

[Alf Garnett]

Barcelona, Ajax, Liverpool, we destroyed them all.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Barcelona, Ajax, Liverpool, we destroyed them all.

Plus Cologne and Hamburg who were both champions of Germany at the time.

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A selection of some of Nottingham Forest's European Cup winners from 1979/80.

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Nottingham Forest - Nacional (Uruguay) in Tokyo Japan, 1981. 

The World Club Championship Final.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

^ Great photo but there doesn't look much grass on that pitch!

[Dog and Bear]

If I remember well Cloughie blamed the pitch on us losing the game.

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The two captains, John McGovern and Ruud Krol.

Ajax - Nottingham Forest, European Cup Semi Final 1980.

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Action from Athens. AEK 1 - 2 Nottingham Forest, 18 October 1978.

Anybody here go to this match?

[Derby My Arse]

I didn't go myself but I do know someone who went. It was our first proper game in the European Cup that was actually played abroad. The first round we only had a trip to Liverpool.

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Ian Bowyer celebrates his winning header at Cologne in 1979 to put Forest into the European Cup Final.