Sleeping giant. It is a term that brings a certain amount of warmth and fuzziness, but where football is concerned it tends not to be a term of endearment.
It’s generally applied to clubs who were once great, but have fallen from grace and been unable to recapture their former glory days.
Read on as we look at five sleeping giants in football in 2020.
Nottingham Forest – England
Forest’s two European Cup successes under manager Brian Clough were undoubtedly the standout moments in the club’s history.
Clough guided Forest to victory in Europe’s top club competition back in the days when teams didn’t have the safety net of a group stage to fall back on.