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Nottingham Post
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Matt Abbott

Finally - Nottingham Forest aim to set record straight after sorry saga of play-off failures

Nottingham Forest will be hoping it's fifth time lucky when they play Huddersfield Town at Wembley Stadium in the Championship play-off final on Sunday.

It will be the first time the Reds have been involved in a play-off final since the end-of-season promotion deciders were first held in 1987, falling at the first hurdle the last four times they have been involved. Those initial failures came in the space of eight seasons, but more than a decade now separates Steve Cooper 's side from the defeat suffered by Billy Davies' Forest in 2011.

Their past play-off experiences date back to 2003, when David Johnson - dad of Brennan - and Marlon Harewood led the line for Paul Hart and company. Here is a rundown of Forest's four previous forays in the play-offs...

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