Sports can be unforgiving. As Steve Cooper may soon find out, fairytales rarely last, especially in football. 📚 DTAthletic
home match when the people most attached to this club were reminded they had something that not every football supporter was lucky enough to experience.
Brian Clough was the manager and, striding out from the tunnel, he would take a sharp right and then stop in front of the dugout as a matter of routine. He would turn to the Trent End, where his name was being sung, and for a few moments, he would just stand there, hands clasped, arms above his head, classic Cloughie. It was the pose they used for his statue, gazing out from Speakers’ Corner in Nottingham.
Frank Clark came next with his soft Geordie lisp and avuncular touches and a story of managerial success that often gets forgotten in the post-Clough analysis. Clark took Forest to promotion, then a third-placed finish in theand, the following season, they were the last English team left in Europe. Different days, indeed. Memories of another century.
After that, not so much. Forest went into a period of drift that lasted longer than they would probably wish to remember. It became difficult even to keep track of the number of managers who passed through. Most were remembered for the wrong reasons. Plenty have been forgotten. “Champions of Europe,” sang the away fans, “you weren’t even born.
All of which probably helps to explain why it jars even more than usual to learn that another Forest manager is straying dangerously close to the guillotine.
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