I remember it well! A friend from Nottingham managed to get tickets for us with the home fans and the three of us had seats behind the Forest disabled section.
1 May 1993, City Ground, Nottingham
Only Brian Clough could perform a lap of honour on the day his team dropped out of the Premiership. Only he could be lauded so enthusiastically by the Sheffield United fans who had come that afternoon to witness the last rites of a great managerial career. Throughout that second half, as Nottingham Forest slumped to defeat and the implications dawned on everyone, both sets of fans chanted Clough's name. The visitors were delighted when he waved back cheerily.
Clough had transformed Forest from no-hopers to European champions and ensured they'd been a force over two decades. But earlier in the week, the Forest chairman had confirmed that Clough would be retiring at the end of the season. Clough had been talking about it for the past five years and knew his time was up. He had been irritated at the consensus that Forest were too good to go down and his inability to transform their performances. The pain of that relegation scarred his career. But those fans who roared their approval at the old boy in the green sweatshirt knew his value. The supreme actor-manager of football had taken his last curtain call.
· Pat Murphy is author of The Brian Clough Story (Robson Books)
As well as it being Brian Clough's last game, I was sitting alongside the late and sadly missed
Fulwood Blade, who couldn't hide the fact that he was a Blade which lead to an angry tirade on the final whistle from a woman in the disabled section who ranted that " being there we had ruined her day "
