13 h. ago Former Nottingham Forest and Scotland winger John Robertson dies aged 72

Robertson played an integral part in Forest’s European Cup victories in 1979 and 1980.

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16 h. ago John Robertson: ‘The Picasso of football’ who helped Nottingham Forest to two European Cups

The Scotland winger won the European Cup in successive seasons with Forest, scoring in the 1980 final

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16 h. ago 'Footballing Picasso' John Robertson – Brian Clough’s ‘favourite player’ who smoked in tunnel

John Robertson, who played a key role in Nottingham Forest's famous back-to-back European Cup wins, has died aged 72 after a battle with Parkinson's disease

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16 h. ago John Robertson: The ‘tramp’ who helped Nottingham Forest to two European Cups

The Scotland winger won the European Cup in successive seasons with Forest, scoring in the 1980 final.

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16 h. ago Former Nottingham Forest winger and ‘Picasso of football’ John Robertson dies at age of 72

Robertson became a cult hero at Forest after playing an integral part in the club’s European Cup victories in 1979 and 1980

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16 h. ago Nottingham Forest's European Cup winner John Robertson dies aged 72

The Scotland international has been described as the club's 'greatest'

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4 w. ago Kalimuendo strikes in Nottingham Forest’s nostalgic European win over Malmö

“Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that,” came the chant as Nottingham Forest supporters, not for the first time, enjoyed getting one over on Malmö. A lot has happened since Trevor Francis’s stooping header to clinch the European Cup in Munich in 1979 but Forest still cherish those days. A lot has also changed in the five weeks since Sean Dyche took the reins, Forest reinvigorated and a comfortable win thanks to goals by Arnaud Kalimuendo, Ryan Yates and Nikola Milenkovic enhanced their hope of qualifying for the Europa League knockout phase.For Forest, this victory – against a Malmö side that had not played for almost three weeks after finishing sixth in their domestic league – represented a third straight win in all competitions and further built on the momentum gained from last weekend’s success at Liverpool. This was a re-run of Forest’s European Cup triumph in name but the game itself was free of any jeopardy or jitters. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Nottingham Forest mark 1979 European Cup success with easy win over Malmo

Goals from Ryan Yates, Arnaud Kalimuendo and Nikola Milenkovic saw off the Swedish club.

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4 w. ago ‘The whole journey was fantastic’: how Bob Houghton led Malmö to European Cup final

Englishman was not an obvious candidate to lead them but Swedes pushed Nottingham Forest all the way in 1979Early in the 1979 European Cup final, Kenny Burns misjudged a long ball and ended up lobbing it up in the air for Jan-Olov Kindvall. He, in turn, attempted to knock the dropping ball over Peter Shilton but the goalkeeper was not as close as he had perhaps anticipated and Shilton ended up catching it simply. The chance was gone and, with it, Malmö’s hopes of beating Nottingham Forest.“I had quite a good chance to score and then they were the better team,” says Kindvall. “But maybe if we had got the first goal, maybe we had a chance. We were very good when we didn’t have the ball ourselves. We had good organisation in the defence. And Forest were very good without the ball as well. It was more difficult for us to play against a team who were more like our team. We played the English way.” Continue reading...

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