For Nottingham Forest, this was one of those absorbing occasions worth the long wait. After 23 years outside the top flight, how they enjoyed giving Liverpool a bloody nose and who better to clinch victory than Taiwo Awoniyi, who left them without making a first-team appearance after being farmed out on loan seven times in six years?
Steve Cooper’s name reverberated around this throbbing stadium at the final whistle as fans launched into a hearty chorus of “Forest are back, Forest are back”.
