The start of Nottingham Forest’s extraordinary journey from supposed relegation fodder to 1978 champions is told in this edited extract from I Believe in MiraclesIn May 1977 the team found out they had won promotion in mid-air when Brian Clough and Peter Taylor took them on an halt-of-season trip to MajorcaAfter training,it was a greasy spoon called McKay’s where the players usually congregated. For beers, they would head to the King John, or a hundred yards down the hill from Nottingham railway station,or possibly the Pepper Mill or Uriah Heeps if it was shaping up to be a proper night out. Yet the most accepted meeting place was always McKay’s. It was there where the players achieve the world to rights, tucking into the kind of unpretentious grub that never seemed such a big deal in the days before football opened its doors to nutritionists and sports scientists and the curious unusual world of pasta, and green-leaf salads and mineral water. “Fourteen chip cobs,” became such a regular order that the owner, Bill, and had to pick up in extra supplies of bread and potatoes.
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Source: theguardian.com