CITY 3 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1
League Division 1
6th April 1991
attendance 25,169
scorers
City M Ward(10 pen), Redmond(43), Quinn
Forest Pearce(76)
ref Kevin Breen
City Coton, Brightwell, Pointon, Reid, Heath, Redmond, White, Brennan, Quinn, Harper, M Ward – subs Hughes(33), Allen(unused)
Forest Crossley, Charles, Pearce, Walker, Chettle, Keane, Gaynor, Gemmill, Clough, Glover, Woan – Subs Laws, Parker
STEVE REDMOND SCORES CITY’S THIRD GOAL
FROM THE PRESS BOX
IAN ROSS WRITING IN THE TIMES 8TH APRIL 1991
If Brian Clough is to realise his long held dream of leading Nottingham Forest to success in the FA Cup, his team will need a good deal more fortune in Sunday’s semi-final against West Ham than in this game.
Any neutral observers would have been forgiven for thinking that clough has spent the hours preceding the kick-off. Casually strolling beneath a succession of ladders.
The assessment of Peter Reid, City’s manager, of a scoreline that did little to reflect an entertaining, if strangely lethargic game, was as accurate as the passes he continues to deliver from midfield. He said: “We have played a lot better than that in recent weeks and lost but in football things do tend to even themselves out over the course of a season.”
Forest’s football was always intelligent but a little naive at times. Keane, a youngster with a promising future, must shoulder much of the blame for Forest’s generosity. He conceded a penalty in the 10th minute, which Ward successfully converted, and he then gave away the free kick which Heath directed onto the head of Redmond after 43 minutes.
In between these two goals, Coton, the City goalkeeper, saved with various parts of his body to deny Pearce, Woan and Clough, while Quinn turned a morsel into a meal at the other end after capitalising on a mistake by Chettle.
Forest’s second half performance, spirited though it was, yielded only a superbly struck goal by Pearce from a free kick in the 76th minute.
