Nottingham Post published Nottingham Forest at 150: Flashback: Reds' ​big night out in...

Brian Clough was nothing if not a dedicated opponent of convention. On the night before Nottingham Forest's European Cup semi-final second leg in Amsterdam on April 23, 1980, he took his players for a look around the city's red-light district. Aware of the pressure on Forest to repeat their European heroics of the previous year, Clough thought a little relaxation would settle their nerves. Forest lost the match 1-0, but the two goals they fashioned without reply in the first leg at the...