With a vastly inferior goal difference and with the two teams directly above them ( Southampton and Nottingham Forest ) still having to play each other, it was effectively an impossible task for Charlton to avoid relegation.

He finally collected an English piece of silverware when he won the 1991 FA Cup Final with Spurs, who beat Nottingham Forest 2 – 1.

His final goal had come three years earlier, in a 3 – 0 home league win over Nottingham Forest on 18 April 1987.

Liverpool's success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing.

The second disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989.

In 1979, they advanced to the final of the European Cup defeating AS Monaco, Dynamo Kiew, Wisla Krakow and Austria Vienna but lost in the final at the Munich Olympic Stadium against Nottingham Forest by a single goal just before half time scored by Trevor Francis.

A second consecutive League Cup final appearance followed in 1992, in which the team beat Nottingham Forest 1 – 0 at Wembley.

The remaining stands were completed for the following league game against Nottingham Forest three weeks later.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

The Sheriff of Nottingham also had jurisdiction in Derbyshire that was known as the " Shire of the Deer ", and this is where the Royal Forest of the Peak is found, which roughly corresponds to today's Peak District National Park.

* May 2 – 1959 FA Cup Final: Nottingham Forest defeats Luton Town 2 – 1.

* September 3 – The Nottingham Forest Football Club plays their first league match, a 2 – 2 draw with Everton FC.

* September 20 – Brian Clough, British football manager of Nottingham Forest and Derby County ( b. 1935 )

It was used for the first time ( allegedly ) at a game held at Nottingham Forest, prior to this referees used handkerchiefs to attract players ' attention.

The 1989 Hillsborough disaster was a human crush and a panic which occurred during the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs on 15 April 1989 at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.

In 1989, Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, the home of Sheffield Wednesday, was selected by the Football Association as a neutral venue to host the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs.

Liverpool and Nottingham Forest met in the semi-final at Hillsborough the previous year, 1988, and fans reported crushing at the Leppings Lane end leading to Liverpool lodging a complaint before the match in 1989.

Nottingham Forest fans were allocated the South and East ends ( Spion Kop ) with a combined capacity of 29, 800, accessed by 60 turnstiles spaced along two sides of the ground.

Although Liverpool had a larger fan base, Nottingham Forest was allocated the larger area, the reason being to avoid the approach routes of rival fans intersecting.

Highlights of that first season back included the club's first-ever Football League Cup match against former European Cup Winners Nottingham Forest.

* Charlie Jones ( footballer born 1899 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ), Welsh international footballer whose clubs included Oldham, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal

The following season they returned to Wembley in the final of the League Cup when they acquitted themselves well, losing 3 – 2 to Nottingham Forest.

Southampton soon secured their best start to a season for 75 years when they beat Nottingham Forest 3 – 2 at St Mary's, taking 15 points from a possible 18 and then beat Birmingham City 4 – 1 at home to go top of the league and extend their winning run at St Mary's to 13 league games, creating a new club record.

Whereas home form continued to waver with a 2 – 0 defeat to Leicester, away form picked up dramatically, with a convincing 3 – 0 away win at struggling Nottingham Forest, despite Lambert's absence.

Carmarthen thought that it was advisable to fight ; as did Nottingham and Admiral Russell, who were unconvinced that the French were as strong as Torrington reported, and considered that only the admiral's pessimism, defeatism or treachery could account for his reports.

A more recent version of darts cricket, to take into account the rise of the Twenty20 form of the game, has been developed in Nottingham.

Nottingham: Nottingham Castle ISBN 0-905634-58-6 ( Catalogue of exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum in 2002 ; contains an account of the life and works that includes many references.

He began business on his own account at Nottingham, but finding himself subjected to the intrusion of competing inventors he removed to Hathern ( near Loughborough ) in Leicestershire.

After an endorsement by League President and chairman of Liverpool John McKenna on account of their longer membership of the League, Arsenal won the vote by eighteen votes to Spurs ' eight ( Barnsley got five, Wolves four, Nottingham Forest three, Birmingham two and Hull City one ) and were thus elected to the First Division.

In 2009 prior to a UK Tour, Nottingham Playhouse commissioned a play of the book by Robin Kingsland.

* Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist: A study in Business History by Stanley Chapman ( Detail from a copy of the book with black and white plates of Jesse Boot and published by Hodder and Stoughton UK as a special edition for The Boots Company Nottingham in 1973 with an ISBN 0-340-17704-7.

John Blackner's book History of Nottingham, also published in 1811, provides a variant tale, of a lad called " Ludnam " who was told by his father, a framework-knitter, to " square his needles ".

Baxter, who was a schoolboy in Newark from 1830 to 1840, contributed to The hungry forties: life under the bread tax ( London, 1904 ), a book about the Corn Laws: " Chartists and rioters came from Nottingham into Newark, parading the streets with penny loaves dripped in blood carried on pikes, crying ' Bread or blood.

Francis Willughby's Book of Games is a book published in 2003 that printed for the first time a transcription of a seventeenth-century manuscript written by Francis Willughby that was held in the library of the University of Nottingham.

On April 1, 1872 BCC sold their lease to the Lehigh Navigation & Coal Co., and on January 1, 1874, the LN & C sold to the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. which operated the mine as the Nottingham No. 15 Colliery.

In 1861 gas was supplied from Nottingham by the Nottingham Gas Light and Coke Company, and for street lamps in 1872.

Re-elected at the beginning of three successive parliaments he retained this position until February 1872, when he resigned and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Ossington, of Ossington in the County of Nottingham.

As the largest of the 29 schools of the Girls ' Day School Trust, Nottingham Girls ' High School is part of an organisation which, since its foundation in 1872, has promoted the education of girls.

Born in Nottingham, England, he was a son of James Elton Hales ( born July 23, 1872 ) and Ethel Burbidge.

As early as January 1865 Sheffield FC was associated with scoring a goal through " scientific movements " against Nottingham A contemporary match report of November 1865 notes " We cannot help recording the really scientific play with which the Sheffield men backed each other up " Combination play by Sheffield players is also suggest in 1868: " a remarkably neat and quick piece of play on the part of K Smith, Denton and J Knowles resulted in a goal for Sheffield, the final kick being given by J. Knowles " Contemporary proof of passing occurs from at least January 1872.

For example, in " Robin Hood and the Tinker " and several other tales, the quarterstaff is the weapon in hand as the two engage in a duel, as the Tinker was apparently sent to bring Robin Hood to justice at the hands of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

He turned down a mooted £ 1. 15 million move to Nottingham Forest to see out his contract with Leicester after Brian Clough apparently failed to impress him during an interview.