Francis is best-remembered for his stints at Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, and Manchester City, becoming renowned as one of the greatest footballers of his generation. The glittering career of Trevor Francis reached its zenith on 30 May 1979, when he scored the winning goal in the European Cup final, gifting Forest their first continental trophy.
He’d miss the 1980 final due to injury, but he still played a role in Brian Clough’s men winning consecutive European Cups and the 1979 European Super Cup. To achieve those feats with a club like Forest seems impossible nowadays, but Francis embodied everything that was magical about 20th-century football.
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