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Remembering '59

Posted on: Sun 03 May 2009

Nottingham Forest will tomorrow commemorate the 50th anniversary of their last FA Cup triumph - with the help of the famous old trophy itself.

The last two surviving members of the Forest side that beat Luton in the 1959 final, Jeff Whitefoot and Billy Gray, are the club's guests of honour at the sell-out Championship finale against Southampton at The City Ground (kick-off 1.15pm).

They will be paraded on the pitch before kick-off with the FA Cup itself, which has kindly been provided to the club by the competition's sponsors E.ON.

Also in attendance tomorrow will be family members of the other nine players who wrote their names in the club's folklore at Wembley half a century ago.

Meanwhile, Forest will be making a number of end-of-season presentations before the game.

The identity of the club's Player of the Year will be announced, as well as the Academy Player of the Year and Forest World Goal of the Season winner.

The provisional timings of the presentations, which will take place pitch-side, are as follows:

12.50 - Academy Player of Year

12.55 - Goal of Season

1.00 - Jeff Whitefoot, Billy Gray and the FA Cup

1.05 - Player of the Year

Please note these timings are subject to change.

Nottingham's World Boxing Champion Carl Froch will at half-time parade the WBC super middleweight belt he successfully defended in the United States last week.

And after the final whistle, the club's Golden Boot winner - Robert Earnshaw - will be presented with his award in the Robin Hood Suite.

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