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Retro.Reds.Liv.Forest.twb22.mp4
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Liverpool’s meeting with Nottingham Forest this weekend may be their first this century but the two clubs were locked in an absorbing rivalry in the late 1970s and 80s which for a time saw them competing for the top honours at home and abroad Fierce, passionate rivalries are an essential ingredient of football, the “salt in the soup” as Jurgen Klopp once memorably described them.
Some are as eternal as the game itself and the clubs involved, like the red-blue divide which unites Merseyside and the historical battles of will with Manchester United, while others are of their time and crackle before fading. The idea of Manchester City and Chelsea being major rivals to Liverpool would have been laughable to those who grew up in the era when the nouveaux-riche pair were often more concerned with preserving top-flight status than competing for the top prizes at home and abroad. But the game's cyclical nature means that while some disputes endure, others are more fleeting as the resumption of one of the Reds’ most unlikely but eventful rivalries in the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend highlights. Liverpool’s trip to the City Ground on Sunday evening will be their first meeting with Nottingham Forest this century, which seems inconceivable to those who remember the repeated high-octane encounters between the pair in the 1970s and 80s but is the reality with the East Midlands club still seeking to regain the Premier League status they lost following a third relegation in six years in 1999.
The sides had first done battle as long ago as 1895 when Liverpool won a First Division encounter 5-0 at Anfield and, although Forest spent more time in the lower divisions, were familiar opponents by the time Kevin Keegan made his Reds debut against them in August 1971 in the most historically noteworthy encounter up until that point. Forest were relegated to the Second Division the following May however and it was on their return to the top flight five years later that a rivalry emerged that would see both conquer Europe twice. Having taken Forest’s East Midlands rivals Derby County to a surprise league title triumph in 1972, Brian Clough took charge at the City Ground in January 1975, less than four months after his infamous 44-day spell as Don Revie’s successor at Leeds United, with the club 13th in the Second Division. Progress was slow initially with Forest only finishing eighth and not troubling the promotion placings by the end of his first full season in charge but the arrival alongside him of Peter Taylor, the assistant manager with whom he’d taken Derby to title glory, in the summer of 1976 proved a catalyst for extraordinary success.
Their first trophy together in Nottingham arrived midway through the following campaign and, while only the much-derided and long-forgotten Anglo-Scottish Cup, the club’s first silverware since a 1959 FA Cup triumph over Luton Town helped Clough develop a winning habit and was soon followed by promotion and greater triumphs beyond even surely the wildest of dreamers. Forest had to wait a week after victory in their final league game of the season over Millwall left them in the third and final promotion spot before rivals Bolton Wanderers failure to win at Wolves confirmed Clough’s men were up, despite their points tally of 52 being the fifth-lowest of any promoted side in history. It mattered not as the newly-promoted side began life back in the First Division with a 3-1 victory at Goodison Park over Everton and embarked on a truly remarkable campaign, becoming only the fourth team in history after Liverpool (1906), Everton (1932), Tottenham Hotspur (1951) and Alf Ramsey’s Ipswich Town (1962) to win the championship immediately after winning promotion from the Second Division, denying Bob Paisley’s men who finished seven points adrift in second place - a third successive title after remaining unbeaten from November onwards in their final 26 league games of the season and sealing matters with four games to spare.....
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