Nottingham Post published Nottingham Forest at 150: Meet the only man to have scored five...

Did you know that Alex Higgins once helped Nottingham Forest gain promotion? Not the former world snooker champion, of course. No, this Alex Higgins, born in Kilmarnock in 1863, was the man who had the honour of scoring Forest's first goal in the Football League, in a 2-2 draw with Everton.'Sandy' Higgins joined Forest in 1890 from local rivals Derby County, where he had been leading scorer for two seasons and went on to bag 46 goals in 36 games in the Football Alliance. Higgins netted four...