There are plenty of industry-standard ways to re-introduce yourself to top-flight football after many long (long) years of second-tier purgatory.
Nottingham Forest have opted for none of them.
Because while Forest are, on a very basic level, a freshly promoted Premier League club, they are not your typical freshly promoted Premier League club. That’s less an assertion of vibes as it is facts. This is a 23-year promotion in the making, one that required 20 managers, three failed escape attempts and a wild dark-horse season that few, if any, predicted.
