Nottingham Post published Nottingham Forest at 150: Flashback: Skipper Burkitt rallied...

Tommy Wilson and Roy Dwight scored the goals and, because of his unfortunate injury, Dwight's legend has lasted longer than most from the 1959 FA Cup final team – but there is no doubt about their inspiration that day. It was their never-say-die skipper Jack Burkitt, a one-club man with Garibaldi red running through his veins. Tough in the tackle, he led the ten men by example, cajoling them to more effort even as their legs were ready to crumple beneath them on that stamina-sapping...