MIRROR IMAGE | BLONDIE CLIPPING IN FOR 2-0 AT FOREST

Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester City  |  Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester City

Sunday 28th April 2024  |  Saturday 27th February 1993

✅ 👱 BLONDIE NICKS THE SECOND | Floppy blond-haired lad clips in late second goal to secure vital win at the City Ground? Yes, it has happened before. 87th minute of the league game in 1992-93, City winning 1-0 thanks to David White's goal. Gary Flitcroft, blond hair bobbing in the breeze steps in to beat goalkeeper Mark Crossley to the ball and clip the clinching goal into the Forest net. Fast forward to 2024, the blond hair belongs to Erling Haaland, whose close range finish after 71 minutes clinches City's vital 2-0 win. 

✅ 💣 POSSIBLY EXPLOSIVE CONSEQUENCES | The defeat meant Forest were staring at the bottom of the table. By May they would be relegated. In 2024, they end the season with a potentially winner takes all game with Burnley, relegation the fate for the loser.

✅ 🔥 OH NO, NOT SPURS! |  The 1992-93 game set City up for a vital game with Tottenham, in the FA Cup 6th round, with the promise of a first FA Cup semi-final since 1981. What transpired was chaotic in the extreme... In 2024 Spurs also await City, with the points essential in the fight to haul in Arsenal before the games run out. 

✅ 🥩⛨ MEAT SHIELD AND MEAT SHIELD SENIOR BY THE TRENT | Erling Haaland scores on the ground where, a year after the Flitcroft Game, his father Alf Inge would play for Forest, before moving on to play for Leeds and City.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.