Nottingham Forest Great European Nights Remembered

[Greek Empire]

You lot are very lucky to have seen and experienced all these wonderful games.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

You lot are very lucky to have seen and experienced all these wonderful games.

We are Greek Goddess, we are so so fortunate.
Most football fans can only dream of this stuff, us older ones who are lucky enough to have seen it are a privliged few and every year we get fewer!

[Duncan Mckenzie]

You lot are very lucky to have seen and experienced all these wonderful games.

The first time I saw Forest play against a foreign team was in 1978 when we played the Greek Champions AEK Athens.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

You lot are very lucky to have seen and experienced all these wonderful games.

The first time I saw Forest play against a foreign team was in 1978 when we played the Greek Champions AEK Athens.

When me and her indoors are in Athens every winter we live just a stones throw away from the AEK Stadium where Forest played on the way to winning their first European Cup. It was sadly damaged during an earthquake and had to be demolished. Now they have started to build a new state of the art stadium due to be completed some time next year.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Happy Birthday Ian 'Bomber' Bowyer, 67 today.

The scorer of one of the most important games in the history of Nottingham Forest.

Colonge 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest. 25th April, 1979. European Cup Semi Final Second Leg.

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Happy Birthday Ian 'Bomber' Bowyer, 67 today.

The scorer of one of the most important games in the history of Nottingham Forest.

Colonge 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest. 25th April, 1979. European Cup Semi Final Second Leg.

Happy Birthday 'Bomber'.

One of my favourite players and an absolute gentleman.

[Mad Mel]

Ajax away, 23rd April, 1980. My first ever away European match experience. Unforgetable trip with my dad.
I remember swapping scarves with an Ajax fan after the match and I had that Ajax scarf on my bedroom wall for years afterwards.

Fantastic night, they threw absolutely everything at us but Shilton was immense!

I also went to Amsrerdam, it was a superb trip, a game game of football in a fantastic atmosphere and I really enjoyed the cities attractions.

I won't say anymore in case the mrs. is reading!

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Ajax away, 23rd April, 1980. My first ever away European match experience. Unforgetable trip with my dad.
I remember swapping scarves with an Ajax fan after the match and I had that Ajax scarf on my bedroom wall for years afterwards.

Fantastic night, they threw absolutely everything at us but Shilton was immense!

I also went to Amsrerdam, it was a superb trip, a game game of football in a fantastic atmosphere and I really enjoyed the cities attractions.

I won't say anymore in case the mrs. is reading!

You naughty boy Robbo...come on spill the beans...your mrs is not registered on here  :)

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

A documentary on ITV tonight at 10.45 about English clubs ruling Europe featuring Forest. Should be a good watch.

[Mad Squad]

Nottingham Forest - Colonge. What a night, what a match and the state of the bloody pitch. Can you imagine playing on a surface like that today?

An absolute mud heap but still they managed to play some cracking football on

This is one of my favourite matches ever at the City Ground. A 3-3 draw with Colonge.

Nobody outside of Nottingham really gave us a chance in the second leg in Germany.

The rest is history!

0-1. Ian 'Bomber' Bowyer.

[Duncan Mckenzie]

Nottingham Forest - Celtic. Uefa Cup, 1983.

A pitch frozen hard, and god alone knows how many thousand Celtic fans had descended upon the City.

Any other game would have been postponed I’m certain…but I think the logistics of appeasing many thousand drunken Scotsmen forced them to play.

I’ve never heard an atmosphere like it at any time before or since.

Enter the ground, and the Celtic fans had been allocated all the Executive Stand Brian Clough Lower Tier, the corner pen of the old Bridgford Terrace and the next 3 blocks along. No empty neutral section – they sold the ground out completely.

Someone fainted/passed out in the packed corner of the Bridgford Terrace and a gate was opened at the front fence to get the fainted person to safety.

This led to other fans rushing to the opened gate and a number of serious injuries were sustained, broken arms, broken legs etc, and the game was stopped, while the casualties were dealt with.

The match itself, well there was not a lot of action or too much to talk about and it finished 0 - 0.

Off to Glasgow we go for the second leg...

[Jasper Scarrott]

Nottingham Forest - Celtic.  Uefa Cup, 1983.

A pitch frozen hard, and god alone knows how many thousand Celtic fans had descended upon the City.

Any other game would have been postponed I’m certain…but I think the logistics of appeasing many thousand drunken Scotsmen forced them to play.

I’ve never heard an atmosphere like it at any time before or since.

Enter the ground, and the Celtic fans had been allocated all the Executive Stand Brian Clough Lower Tier, the corner pen of the old Bridgford Terrace and the next 3 blocks along. No empty neutral section – they sold the ground out completely.

Someone fainted/passed out in the packed corner of the Bridgford Terrace and a gate was opened at the front fence to get the fainted person to safety.

This led to other fans rushing to the opened gate and a number of serious injuries were sustained, broken arms, broken legs etc, and the game was stopped, while the casualties were dealt with.

The match itself, well there was not a lot of action or too much to talk about and it finished 0 - 0.

Off to Glasgow we go for the second leg...

Gret post Duncan and that's exactly how I remember it.

With the wind chill factor it actually felt like it was minus 20 (fact) and I remember many Celtic fans wearing nothing but their T-shirts and Kilts (not sure if there was anything under their kilts).

What a briiliant result in the second leg also.  Celtic 1 - 2 Nottingham Forest.  Nobody outside of Nottingham gave us a prayer.