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NOTTINGHAM, England -- "Surprised?" said John O'Hare, who played 101 games for Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "I would say so. Astonished."
O'Hare was walking past the grandstand at City Ground, where Forest -- who currently sit third in the Premier League, behind only Liverpool and Arsenal -- would play Brighton that afternoon. Behind him, reminders of the club's past glory under the charismatic but contentious Brian Clough were on display, lettered in white against the red façade. "Champions of Europe 1979," one of them read, and "Champions of Europe 1980," the other. O'Hare played on those European Cup teams. A decade later, at the end of Clough's…
