The way she was dressed. I don’t remember much other than it was cold and Brian told me off for not wearing shin pads.’When Forest reached the European Cup final, Clough got his squad half-cut on white wine the night before the game and left out Martin O’Neill to squeeze his record signing into his team.O’Neill reminds him of this every time they meet but for once is unable to have the final word. The wife of the first million-pound footballer.‘Then the begging letters started from all over the country asking for money. Years later I was by the pool in Spain when Garry Birtles called me and said: “The boss has died”. Brady happened to be married to the player at the time.More importantly, the Trevor Francis who sits and talks for over an hour is engaging and energised.He is beginning to pick up some TV work again and remains in love with the game.Francis is beginning to pick up some TV work again and remains in love with the game‘I don’t like it when I wake up and have nothing planned,’ he says. Cloughie had already knocked Kenny Burns into shape. His wife wore a fur coat.Author Duncan Hamilton has described it as the day English football broke the sound barrier.
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. "Francis also revealed all on his world-famous European Cup winner in 1979, while playing for Brian Clough's Forest - for whom he'd earlier signed from Birmingham for a record £1m fee.That night, Francis nodded home a famous header in Rome's Stadio Olimpico against Malmo to etch the Midlanders into European folklore.Looking back, Francis said: "It was a magical moment. ‘When you get in the first team as a footballer you don’t think football will ever stop. Only now has he felt able to slowly begin moving forward again.‘I just didn’t think I could do it and I am not finding this conversation very easy at the minute,’ he says. She was young, only 25. "But the ultimate contradiction comes when he won’t let me anywhere near the final. ‘We could sit over a coffee and he was warm, caring and engaging,’ he says.Not that Francis ever asked him about the strange way his short Forest career ended.Injured before Forest’s appearance in the following season’s European Cup final against Hamburg, Francis was not even asked-after during a short spell in hospital. She did everything for me. Nobody had ever done that, had they? @pitchpublishing. These days they rehearse celebrations in training. The man who made his manager’s dreams come true that night in Bavaria sits quietly at a table in Leicester. Trevor Francis's wife has passed away following a long battle with cancer. She did everything for me. Subsequently he was told by Clough’s secretary that he was not to travel with the squad for the game. That’s the worst part. Trevor Francis with his wife Helen in July 1987. He would be just as good in the modern game today.‘The boss favoured him but we accepted it because we knew Robbo was going to get us to where we all wanted to go.‘Clough would just tell us to give the ball to Robbo. Its a tougher challenge than anything I ever faced in football. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. After two decades of TV work, he has not been on our screens much, either. "It was a classic contradiction. We were married 43 years. We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Published by Associated Newspapers LtdPart of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group "Francis has been out of the spotlight since that fateful moment almost two years ago to the day.Francis said: "I just didn’t think I could do it and I am not finding this conversation very easy at the minute. Is he a big time Charlie?