Stretched across the Trent End, the banner read: “We’ve come so far and we’ve only just begun.”
Supporters’ group Forza Garibaldi, as they always seem to do, summed it up perfectly. Come full-time, the sentiment was perhaps even more apt.
Nobody at the City Ground needs any reminder of where Nottingham Forest were this time 12 months ago. They have indeed come a long way under Steve Cooper.