“I was curious about the city,” Mourinho explained in the foreword to I Believe in Miracles, the book telling the story of Nottingham Forest’s back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980.

Bindon, the 20-year-old defender, will not play for Forest until next season at the earliest as, after signing from Reading, he has immediately returned there on loan. The experience of a promotion ...