60s. Can you identify the player described here?
“With a surname which was factually correct in his case, he only played for three clubs and holds records which will die with him at two of them. He started and ended his career wearing red. At his first club, his first team opportunities were limited during a seven year stay, but this didn’t stop him being a part of two trophy winning squads four years apart. He then moved across country to one of those teams whose ground is outside the town/city they represent. His form was so good that his stay with the club which features Bill Shankly and Russell Slade among it’s former managers was a short one as Forest came calling. He was at the City Ground for nine years before retiring towards the end of this decade, but not before he had been a part of the greatest day in Nottingham Forest’s history until a certain Brian Clough came along.”
70s. Games between City and Forest ceased for nearly thirty years during this decade. Can you name the four Cardiffians in our team for the last of our matches against Forest until 2003 and who were the two other Welshman in that side?
80s. Another player to identify.
“It can truly be said that the best days of this Scot’s career came before he reached twenty one. A scorer in the old First Division in his first start for Forest at the age of eighteen, he’d won a tournament at Wembley, played in an FA Cup Semi Final and been a nominee for PFA Young Player of the Year by the end of his first season. Following a backwards move into defence, the following campaign bought two more Wembley cup wins and another PFA Young Player nomination along with Under 21 caps with an assumption that full ones would soon follow. However that was as good as it got for him as a succession of knee injuries, which eventually caused him to retire from full time football at the age of twenty four, took hold. He added another Wembley Cup Winner’s Medal, but this time he was an unused substitute and not long afterwards he began a year’s absence from the Forest team. During this time, there were loan moves to a Scandinavian club and a football hot bed near the Scottish border where he played under the management of a World Cup winner and then under a future England manager in the only two matches he played there.
His last goal for Forest was against Manchester United and his last match for them against Arsenal. He resurfaced in non league football a few years later with Rushden and Diamonds during their Conference days and he also played a few games for Ilkeston Town and Gresley – subsequently, he has coached at Sunderland, Hearts and in the USA.”
90s. Who is this?
00s. About which player, who faced us three times as a Forest player during this decade, did Roy Hodgson once say “I think we got lucky in that we didn’t sign him. There was a problem with the medical and it also became a problem when we found out he had a jail sentence.”?
10s. Who is this member of the last Forest team to play here?
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60s. Jeff Whitefoot played for Manchester United, Grimsby Town and Nottingham Forest – he is the sole surviving First Division Championship medal holder of the 1955/56 Manchester United squad and the lone survivor from Forest’s FA Cup winning side in 1959.
70s. Brian Attley, Phil Dwyer, David Giles and goalscorer Peter Sayer all started in the 1-0 win at the City Ground in April 1977, as did Merthyr born Derek Showers and Keith Pontin, who hails from Pontyclun.
80S. Terry Wilson – his loan spell at Newcastle saw him managed by Ossie Ardilles and Kevin Keegan in his only two appearances for them.
90s. Christian Edwards.
00s. Marlon King – a move to Fulham broke down when Hodgson was manager there.
10s. Chris Cohen.
