ONCE UPON A TIME

Have you watched the 'I believe In Miracles' documentary on Netflix?
A brilliant watch!

comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 40 minutes ago
Have you watched the 'I believe In Miracles' documentary on Netflix?
A brilliant watch!
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Of course I have

The opening scene where some kids are running through the streets - I’m one of them - it was taken from the mid 70”s in The Meadows area of Nottingham

Yeah silly question!!!

Burns and Lloyd were real characters. Men not to be messed with.

It’s a brilliant documentary, and even more so because I remember those day so well - seems like only yesterday

An incredible achievement by such bunch of misfits at an relatively unfashionable club

It’s what makes it perhaps the greatest achievement in British, if not World football

People may say you signed Francis for a world record fee but he was nowhere near a proven player when you signed him.

Even buying Francis was after the amazing feat of promotion to the 1st Division and the winning of the Football League the following year, plus 2 League Cups

Admittedly, he scored the winner in the 79 European Cup Final, but all the work to get us to that point was before buying him

I very much took that goal for granted at the time, we just kept winning after all.
But it was a brilliant goal by Francis, if he had headed it just under the bar the keeper would have pushed it over. Instead Francis used his neck muscles and put the ball some where else and he made it look easy, it wasn't.
I was gutted when he was sold, one of the reasons I stopped buying a season ticket in fact.

Bear, Francis was sold because he got the hump at being injured just before the 1980 European Cup Final, and then not being invited to join the team in Madrid - clough didn’t stand for any dissent or for anyone to question his decisions, so he was shipped out - a bit like Gemmill and the 1979 Cup Final

Clough was totally ruthless - brilliant but ruthless

Great watch, can you imagine what todays ref’s and VAR would make of that, proper tackles flying in, no rolling round on the floor, get up and get on with it, proper football. 👍