Who sees himself again, Nottingham Forest.
It is the team that, under the guidance of the magician Brian Clough (to whom they erected a statue in the city) won an English championship as a newly promoted in 1978, and then in the following two years as many Champions Cup at the expense of Malmoe (1979 ) and Hamburg (1980).
A fable of the football of the past, that of the late 70s and early 80s, which after Clough's farewell turned into a slow, but inexorable, decline that brought the club back to the minor leagues, which it currently attends at the same level. of Championship, or the B, with zero hope of going up to the Premier.
But today we are talking about Forest again because, in the third round of the FA Cup, the English Cup, they eliminated Arsenal, a club that has won this trophy that the English care so much about 14 times.
Against the Gunners it ended 1-0, with a goal for Grabban's Nottingham on an assist from Yates.
In the next round the Forest will face Leicester, holder of the Cup and in turn protagonist of another fairy tale, in more recent times, that of the championship won by Claudio Ranieri's Foxes.
But in Nottingham they do not lose their optimism: "my boys just have to continue to believe in it", is the invitation of coach Steve Cooper.
