Who will complete the final four? A tie of historic significance, a trip down memory lane will decide it. It’s not since the last century, 1999, that Forest and Liverpool faced each other and by then the rivalry of the late-1970s/early-1980s and a less heated revival at the end of the 1980s was a distant memory, even if Liverpool were in the doldrums themselves by 1999. Forest are in the hunt for promotion, but their cup run has seized the imagination and the agenda for now. Liverpool meanwhile are going for the type of quadruple that even the teams of the 1980s would have thought beyond their ken. Jürgen Klopp seems to have decided the cups are now worth going for. The City Ground awaits, a stadium where a visit does conjure memories of glories past, mostly because the place has barely changed in years. To draw this preamble to an end, you will notice that we have not actually mentioned his name until the very end: Brian Clough.
Kick-off at 6pm UK time. Join me.
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