Nottingham Forest now know that they will end their absence from Wembley Stadium on May 29 when they face Huddersfield Town in the Championship play-off final for a place in the Premier League next season.
That also means that their drought of playing at the national stadium will come to an end at four days over 11,000 days. Just over 30 years ago, Brian Clough faced off against a relatively fresh-faced Sir Alex Ferguson, who was five-and-a-half years into an eventual 26 in charge of Manchester United, under the Twin Towers at the original Wembley in the 1992 Football League Cup final, then known as the Rumbelows Cup.
Forest had reached that state after beating Bolton Wanderers (on aggregate), Bristol Rovers, Southampton and Crystal Palace both after a replay before besting Tottenham Hotspur over two legs in the semi-final 3-2 after extra time header from Roy Keane. It was the Reds' sixth League Cup final in the space of 15 years.
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It was the team that Keane went on to join that lifted the cup for the first time in their history courtesy of a Brian McClair goal inside a quarter of an hour in the capital. That finish past goalkeeper Andy Marriott proved to be the final goal of the game.
Forest had already won a cup final that season, though, after beating Southampton 3-2 after extra time in the final edition of the Zenith Data Systems Cup. Scot Gemmill scored the winner with five minutes remaining at Wembley to see the Reds become to only two-time winners of the trophy.
