It is now 112 days that Nottingham Forest have occupied the Premier League’s top four, and the nerves are now jangling at the business end.
Forest’s fans are experiencing the full pendulum of emotions in the club’s pursuit of the Champions League and this was an excruciating afternoon at the City Ground.
On what was a fine advertisement for Premier League integrity, Everton have shaken up the race for Europe at the other end of the table with a disciplined performance and a late hammer-blow winner from Abdoulaye Doucoure.
Forest had been dicing with danger all afternoon.