Among the travel reviews, Nottingham Forest players described their European Cup final retreat as an Addams Family resort, a hammer house of horrors and Bates Motel.
Up in the Sierra Guadarrama above Madrid it was a quiet pre-match hotel – but Forest’s heroes were miffed when manager Brian Clough ordered them back to their remote lodge after beating Hamburg to defend the trophy.
Captain John McGovern recalled: “Cloughie told us, ‘We’re going home tomorrow, we’re going to be received by thousands of people in Nottingham and I don’t want you lot showing off the European Cup looking like rag-tag scruffs.
You’re going to look like a football team.’ “It felt a bit strange, celebrating back-to-back European Cup wins without our families – who
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