You can say the same about a Forest-Liverpool fixture being billed as a title clash for the first time in 46 years. Talk of that 1979 showdown sits alongside the echoes of Leicester City 2015-16 ...

Just like Leicester, it was predicted that Forest would fall away with the Christmas decorations, with their surprise title bid regarded as unsustainable. Just like Leicester, it was thought that ...

Leicester largely avoided injury too and, in Jamie Vardy, a talismanic and reliable spearhead. Forest have arrived at a similar destination, either by happy coincidence or through astute decision ...