Forest play Real Betis in Europa League on Wednesday
‘When a club’s got stars on its badge, its special’
Ange Postecoglou has said Nottingham Forest’s return to Europe rewards dreamers and their rise encapsulates “what football was always designed to be”.
Forest’s Europa League opener at Real Betis on Wednesday is their first competitive match on the continental stage since March 1996, when they lost in the Uefa Cup quarter-finals to Bayern Munich.
Only four years ago Forest were 23rd in the Championship and Postecoglou, who lifted the Europa League trophy with Tottenham in May, said the club being in the competition enticed him to the job.
