I was in the Bridgford End that night standing just behind the goal so I got a great view of Colin Barretts goal. For me that put a different spin on the tie and we went to Anfield with an advantage that gave us a fighting chance. The rest is history but wow what talent was on that pitch that night. Memorable times.

some genuine men playing some genuine football. greets from Italy

Liverpool were the best team in Europe 76/77/78. Forest were mid-table Div 2 in 76. Forest played Liverpool 6 times in 10 month over 77/78 and these 2 legs at start of 78/79, were unbeaten and conceded 1 goal. It says all you need to know about Clough that before the 2nd leg of this match (a 0-0) Shankly came to see Brian. Respect for our legends.

When you see this style of football and measure it against that of today, which I call "possession without purpose", there is no comparison. You hardly saw a back-pass in the video.

I remember this was the start of the love / hate relationship between Forest and Liverpool and of course Cloughy. As a Liverpool fan I have to say that Cloughy was up there with the gods. Forest fans should be proud of him as he was a diamond.

What a time for Forest fans, two legend GK's in the game along with all those great players and managers.

Wonderful football from Forest under Clough the genius. As a Manchester United supporter I can't tell you how much joy games like this gave me and my pals who followed many different clubs ...Rangers, Celtic, etc. We all used to go round a pal's house with a few tins and watch. We loved this result....Magic!!!

Two provincial clubs made great by Clough/Taylor. Who could ever do that? And Robertson , the greatest winger the world has seen.

Hell, there was some talent at the City Ground that night. On the pitch, in the dug-outs...and in the Commentary Box.

What a great player Woodcock was.

Beautiful football from Nottingham Forest. Art of Counter Attack. Amazing Goals & Skills from Forest players 👍🏻

Quite possibly one of the most exciting attacking front lines I've ever seen. They're fast, direct, intelligent players. They made us look very ordinary at times. Well played Forest.

Liverpool won it 77 and 78 so this was hard to take. But Forest were so strong and credit where it is due. They were a right thorn in our side for many years and Liverpool never did much at the city ground.

I could watch this all day I'm obsessed with the matches from the past. Everything about it songs to my should 22 British and Irish lads giving no quarter football as it should be played.

Gutted at the time, but in retrospect that Forest team were a true marvel, winning back to back European Cups was amazing. You can see LFC's weakness here - no top class striker to go with this amazing midfield. Then Ian Rush arrived in 1980 ....

I well remember these matches between these two juggernnauts of English and European football at the time. They were titanic clashes. Being drawn against Forest, in 1979 drew gasps of disbelief. We, [Liverpool] knew just how hard that draw would be. Forest had a tremendous team back then, I have to give credit where credit is due. To look at where Forest are now, must frustrate their supporters so much.

The pitch was in amazing condition.. I was in the Trent End I think Liverpool had 10k in the ground ..Great game , Great Atmosphere …Barrett volley underrated goal build up etc.

Forest were a right thorn in our side. We could do nothing good at the City ground and Forest were almost impossible to beat. It is truly remarkable what Clough and Taylor built at Nottingham Forest.

Superb stuff from Forest. Great second goal.

Commentary's great.. much better than todays bilge

forest were brilliant back then ynwa

Listen many great players in there. Souness, Dalglish etc…but i tell you what…John Robertson of Forest was truly world class. Football talent wise well above everyone else.

back in the day english teams rule in european football.

I was there! Forest fans pinching themselves all season - very difficult to convey the excitement of those first 3 seasons back in the top flight - and European nights like this

John Robertson football genius

Good day. Thank you so much for the nice video. Enjoyed and liked of course. Bravo! Greetings from country Azerbaijan

i remember watching the highlights that night and being happy that forest won. tony woodcock was electric.

This shows how the previous format for this trophy was much tougher than the current format.

Thankyou David John for these I've been a Forest fan 40+ years I'm 52 now I remember most of these and where I was and my name is David Jon Andrews no bull so cheers

I'm a Chelsea fan, but Nottingham is a team with a really good history and I enjoyed their performance in these moments..thanks adrian💙

Nothing better than a European Cup match under floodlights with Brian Moore doing the commentary. The European Cup so much better than the Champions League format, one poor away performance was potentially game over

Unbelievable the amount of great Scottish players on show there I was always amazed that the guy who captained notts forest to two European cup wins John McGovern couldn't get in a Scotland squad, can you imagine that nowadays

Now this is some proper commentary!

Was there that day,stood in the Bridgford End, right behind where Barrett knocked in the 2nd goal :)

My own team Everton finished the 1976-77 season strongly after Gordon Lee took over. On the opening day of the 77-78 season we played newly promoted Forest at Goodison. They outplayed the blues and I recall the width of the team and players like Larry Lloyd very strong in defence. They won 3-1 and you feared the worst. Everton went undefeated until December that year. And forest won the title No wonder the late Bobby Robson hailed Brian Clough the ironmonger. He built great teams out of raw materials. Today we see overpaid players nowhere near the standard on offer in this game.

I fucking love this! Shearer and Hansen would have a field day analysing all the tackles. Even the more graceful players were tough bastards. Amazed at all the home grown talent. Nowadays the best British players are over the fucking park on a Sunday morning.

The good old days of football when players had respect for each other, didn't roll around on the grass crying 24/7 and didn't complain to the refs every time a free kick wasn't given.

Tony woodcock was a class act an immense player,must have been a nightmare defending against him as Liverpool found out that night...

Great skills by Gary birtles

A very tough, physical game produced two very classy goals.

Woodcock = superb here. V intelligent play.

This is good football. Unlike the diving Prima donnas of today ...wth happened?

Phil Thompson was ‘skinned’ so many times that night...spent more time on his back than on his feet

Fantastic British talent on show in this brilliant match. All about teamwork, just like the brilliant Leeds squad earlier in the decade. Too much money in the modern game, not enough loyalty. The fans remain loyal shame the players don't

Forest were unstoppable for two seasons

Missed it as I couldn't get a ticket, but saw the rest of Forest's home ties, 12-5 in 3 games. Wonderful memories.

Cloughie...Paisely....coaching legends!

ITV covered the 2-0 to Forest first leg at The City Ground and BBC covered the 0-0 2nd Leg at Anfield

Gary Birtles takin the piss out of Phil Thomson, classic.

One amazing forest team. Everyone knew they played through Robertson yet for years no-one could stop him. Genius of Taylor and Clough to turn Burns into a sweeper.

9:20 lovely dummy from Woodcock.

the two best goalkeepers in the world at opposite ends

I was there... I remember the Colin Barratt goal.. the surprise that he scored.. the big crowd... you could barely move...... no one was picking him up, he seemed to have space on a few occasions...

This would be the last all English EC tie until Arsenal and Chelsea faced off in the Quarterfinals in 2004. In the entire history of the EC/UCL, It's only happened 14 times with one of those being a group stage set of games between Chelsea and Liverpool for there to be an all English showdown.

questo è il calcio che mi piace!!!

That night in Nottingham was electric

When I was 16 in Summer 1978 stayed with a French family (exchange). The boy was a St Etienne supporter, but he admired Liverpool. I told him about Nottingham Forest ( he hadn’t heard of them). I said that Forest were as good as Liverpool and would potentially win The European Cup 78/79. Of course they beat Liverpool in The European Cup and won It the following May! What a prediction!!!!

Love the commentator brings a lot of excitement ,passion and intelligence to the match commentary . what's his name

What a beautiful old stadium

vendo esse jogo, vejo q o futebol bom é aquele simples....aquele, q o Brasil esqueceu

At 10:17 you can see the trend of forward passes instead of backpasses like today.

What a game just watched this this was just before my time but loved all these players and teams but forest were a smashing side growing up watching them with Keane always an enigmatic type of side done well recently Steve Cooper guy seems a good manager an the lad colbecks goal was like matrco van Basten goal v WBA great watch thanks for uploading 👍

I can remember been 9 8 years old watching this........Born in Leeds, amazing team!

Well, THAT was football! Thanks for uploading.

This was when Liverpool and forest played pass the European cup, if you wanted to win it you had to beat one of these two great sides as Aberdeen FC found out in 1980-81 season and we were told a lesson in how to play in Europe. It was a lesson Fergie made sure him and his team would learn from. With our young up and coming stars that would win just about everything we played in from 82-86 under Fergie including our cup winners cup final against Real Madrid and super cup win which was 2 legs v Hamburg "who stopped the English grip on the European cup in 83" also we beat UEFA Cup holders Ipswich in 81-82 season and that was a big upset as Ipswich were challenging these two great teams in England as well as winning the UEFA cup, we were expected to get well beaten again but a lot of young players broke through that season and a new player Peter Weir ripped them apart. So as much as it hurt at the time getting beat 5-0 in aggregate, it was a lesson we did learn a lot from as did Fergie who then went on to dominate the English league at United.

Great memories.

great footage ...happy days

Liverpool and nottingham forest were top teams then two great mangers has well

In the Trent end thar night. Happy days. Liverpool were the team to beat.

Souness pretending to be concerned, he thought it was red. Birtles what a start.

Would have been a good rivalry for a good 2 to 3 years between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. Not just in England but for European glory.

Chelsea, Arsenal, ManU (Liverpool) have all fielded at one time a team with not one Briton. Disgusting. It was wonderful to support British teams against the European mainland teams. But now, you don't know which player is playing for which team,you don't know from which country he comes from, especially if they're gone after 1 or 2 seasons. It's all money now, that's why I've lost all interest. They should best investing in the youth, not making short-time profit. I wasn't ever a ManU fan , but they made the right steps in creating United of Manchester.

John McGovern - When you qualify for Europe, you think Paris or Madrid, maybe. Who'd we draw? Liverpool. Great. A free trip to Liverpool. McGovern added that Clough flipped the script in motivating the players. "If you don't want to play them, just imagine how much they don't want to play you." That did it.

European cup. .what a competition. ... 2 leg matches

When Lloydy was running "The Stage Door" in town, me and a mate of mine went to pick up a 2nd hand wardrobe the he was flogging. I'd just moved in to my first flat at the time and wanted something cheap. Anyway Lloydy appears in a towel and says "What fucking time do you call this" I said 8.20, and he said "Just fuck off and come back later I've just got up" I didn't bother going back. Classic Lloydy lol.

كان عشقي إفريقي المفضل نوتنغهام الذي كان أول فريق يرقد المنتخب الانكليزي بلاعب ملون فيف أندرسون

People bitching about "foriegn" players today limiting the development of English players? What better development is there than to play against the best players you can? Besides these 2 teams had a solid core of non English players. Liverpool Heighway Souness Dalglish, previously Toshack Jones, Cormack Yates Larwence St john, soon to sign Laurenson, Hansen, Grobblaer, Rush, Whelan, Cohen, Beglin, Gillespie Forest. Gray Burns Gemmill O'Neill Robertson McGovern O'Hare. Scotland qualified for the 1978 world cup with many of the players above. I think that the development of young Engkish players today is more down to how much football they play online rather than in the park.

That Souness tackle at 0:23 😂😂 love it

I Was 13 at the time this game was played and, was allowed to stay up and watch the highlights on TV. It started about 10.30pm and was a school night. Just shows you how times have changed. kids out now till all hours and Mums and Dads don't give a toss. It was a treat to stay up, and you had to have been good all day. My team then was Oldham Athletic but i was still thrilled to watch these to great teams playing in both legs. We have lost so much in Football to money and greed , Football in the 70s was and still is the best. Even at Oldham Athletic.

in reality forest stopped that liverpool team winning 5 on the spin

Actual football! It really is a great game when real men play it. Not diving, cheating, untouchable millionaire advertising lackeys.

The 2nd goal was nice work by the interceptor he stopped it twice made a run to the box & scores the goal I think...

Must have been early in the season- the City Ground 'pitch' was usually 80% wet sand & mud.

I remember Radio City in Liverpool had Bill Shankly & Clive Tyldsley doing the commentary & after Gary Birtles scored the 1st goal CT commented that 3 weeks ago nobody had heard of Gary Birtles to which Shanks replied “Well they’ve fcuking heard of him now” & slammed his headset down. Classic radio & apparently not 1 complaint recieved

Do you know hoy to find the full game? And also the game in Anfield if is possible. Thanks

Great 2nd goal,clever football.

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I was there that night. Few Forest fans could believe it ... we had scraped into the First Division via the play-offs and initially hoped only that we might survive more than one season before dropping back. Then we won the First Division Championship with an astonishing record. Then This .... heady days indeed.

GREAT post. I'd love to see full matches of both legs of this tie.

maybe they will be promoted to Premier League this year

"Souness, taking away Woodcock's legs". Did he ever see them again?

When football was played by men...

Ron Greenwood a t-il rapidement sélectionné des joueurs de forest en équipe nationale ?

Jesus...look at fast Woodcock was

42 years ago that club Nottingham Forest 🌳 made history back to back 1978 to 1979 again 1979 to 1980 European Cup champions . The 1979 European Super Cup was played Between Nottingham Forest 🌳 and Barcelona with Nottingham Forest 🌳 winning 🏆 2-1 on aggregate those days 🔥! Man the owner has big club let him invest or else let him sell the club to the Arabs Habiib people have the money to invest the club as you see Newcastle the way the performance 🎭 Premier League 3rd place where big club Nottm Forest 🌳 is the last 3 bottom ! Actually Nottingham Forest 🌳 is big club than Man city, Arsenal, Tottenham, and PSG ! The problem is the owner fuck !! How are they feeling the legends 1979 back to back European Champions am really sorry for them but the Legacy still alive!

2nd goal is a banger

Interested to see two ex city players bowyer and Barrett not fancied by the city staff but good enough for Clough and Taylor nuff said.

I’m reading a lot of carp about Liverpool being the best side in Europe during this time. Twaddle. They were the best side in the World.

Great Nottingham!!!

Jogo corrido da porra kkkk os cara a milhão.