On December 12, 2003, Tony Twain, one of the greatest managers in Nottingham Forest's history, returned to the post he was best at after six months of silence and appeared in the home team's technical area at City Ground Stadium. When he returned, there was no talk of his luckless predecessor, Collymore. It was as if the City Ground Stadium's position was tailor-made in advance for Tony Twain.
It was an ordinary Football League First Division game. There was no English Football League Championship at the time, so the Football League First Division was the second-tier tournament. After losing six games in a row, Nottingham Forest met Crystal Palace, a team that was ranked a spot lower than them but was aggressively determined to beat them at home. Nottingham Forest at first fell behind but then reversed the situation to end an embarrassing six-game losing streak.
