I was looking at Forests European cup wins the other day.
Forest were bloody good with Clough in the 70's and 80's, they were an excellent footballing team and lethal on the counter attack.
The EC in those days was just a straight knockout with no group games. Only 1 team ( the champions) from each country qualified for it.
Forest beat Hamburg in one final and Malmö in the other. One semi final was against Cologne. Some of their other games were against teams I have barely heard of and do not feature in today's football. Forest did beat the all powerful Liverpool team in one of those cup runs, but they were the only powerhouse they defeated in winning the 2 Euro trophies.
When Larry Lloyd mocked our Premier win by saying that Leicester's achievement wasn't the greatest sporting story, I had to disagree. When Forest won those cups we were in an era of a much more level playing field. Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City and Tottenham were not challenging for the title on a regular basis.
Teams like Watford, Southampton, Norwich and Ipswich were amongst them all at various stages, a thing that is pretty much inconceivable now.
I fully respected Clough for being a great manager, but their greatest success was achieved against a different standard of opposition to today's game.