{0} Hat Trick - Nottingham Forest Champions

Amazing Display By New Signing {1} {0} Wins Cup for Underdogs

Barcelona 1

(Messi, 8)

Nottingham Forest 3

({0}, 48, 86, 90)

The football form book was turned upside down when recent signing {2} year old {1} {0} from {3} scored an amazing second half hat trick to seal a fairy tale win for Nottingham Forest in the European Champions League Final at Real Madrid's Bernabeu Stadium. It all looked to be slipping away from Nottingham Forest when Messi converted an eighth minute penalty following a spell of constant Barcelona pressure. The Nottingham Forest defence did well to keep the Barca lead to a single goal when the teams went in at half time.

Recent signing {0} was brought on as a second half substitute - an introduction that proved pivotal to Nottingham Forest. In the 48th minute {0} picked the ball up just inside the centre circle, the rookie attacker danced around Puyol and sublimely nutmegged Xavi to leave a one on one with the Spaniards keeper. {1} feigned to shoot then exquisitely lobbed the ball over the advancing keeper. {0} was buried in a sea of Nottingham Forest shirts as the players celebrated. The massed ranks of Nottingham Forest supporters went wild as they acknowledged {0}'s wonder goal. The nimble-footed {0} nearly got a second only four minutes later after firing a blistering volley just wide of the Barcelona post from 25 yards.

In the 76th minute Messi hit the Nottingham Forest upright with a curling free kick from just outside the 18-yard box. The Nottingham Forest response was swift as they forced a string of three consecutive corners in as many minutes.

With just five minutes to go the strong, tough-tackling {0} intercepted a loose pass from Xavi just inside the Barcelona half. Gliding past chasing defenders with a quick burst of speed, {0} approached the edge of the box and fired an unstoppable shot into the roof of the Barca net. {0} set off for the Nottingham Forest supporters behind the goal with hands aloft in celebration. The Nottingham Forest supporters were ecstatic; amazingly they had taken the lead and the seemingly impossible was becoming a reality. They were under five minutes away from winning the Champions League. Could they hang on?

Nottingham Forest's dreams were complete when, in the last minute the Barcelona keeper came up for a corner. The ball was eventually cleared by the Nottingham Forest defence and it fell straight to {0}. The quick-thinking {0}, seeing the Spanish keeper racing back towards his goal sent the ball high into the air three quarters the length of the pitch into the empty Barcelona net to seal a victory the magnitude of which the football world has never seen. Pandemonium followed as the dream of Nottingham Forest winning the European Cup became reality. At the final whistle players and supporters were united in tears of ecstasy. The eternally modest {1} {0} had almost single-handed, won the Europe's most prestigious trophy for Nottingham Forest. {0} and the rest of the team will be remembered for as long as football is played.

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