Mull of Kintyre is not a football anthem to rival Sunshine on Leith and it will doubtless draw the usual query of "What the f*****g hell is that?" from the Manchester United supporters in the Bridgford Stand on Tuesday night.
It will be belted out with more gusto than ever. Nottingham Forest, who finished 17th in the Championship less than four years ago, are in the top three of the Premier League and into the final four of the FA Cup.
This evening's fixture is bigger for Forest than United as they have everything to lose. Forest rose to fifth when they won at Old Trafford for the first time in 30 years in their 15th league fixture nearly four months ago. Fifth would secure a place in next season's Champions League, never mind third.
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Forest were even nostalgically billed as budding championship challengers a few months ago. Chiefly to draw up anticipation for their game against champions-elect Liverpool. These are heady days for a club that was 21st in the second tier when United loaned them James Garner in January 2021.
Sleeping giant is maybe overstating it with Forest, whose last major honour was in 1990. Yet they are another club - a smaller club with fewer resources - that have a recruitment strategy United must glance at enviously.
And that was after two scattergun summers that must have made United blush. Forest signed 21 players in the 2022 summer transfer window and they came 16th. Last season, they dropped to 17th.
Steve Cooper remains, just about, the club's finest manager since Brian Clough. But Forest head-hunted an upgrade midway through last season in Nuno Espirito Santo, a Premier League-standard manager who was an ill fit with Tottenham.
That was on Spurs. They interviewed Antonio Conte in the summer of 2021 yet failed to find common ground. They were convinced they needed a coach brimming with passion after Rino Gattuso interviewed and eventually returned to Nuno. who was initially discounted as he was deemed expensive and his style of play off-putting. He was sacked after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer led United to victory for the last time at Spurs.
Forest can be a tough watch for anyone but their supporters. They average the least amount of possession in the Premier League and their strategy revolves around counter-attacks.
Nuno immediately elevated Wolves from Premier League newbies to European qualifiers in 2018-19. The Wolves squad was teeming with artisans but there were also aesthetes: Ruben Neves, Joao Moutinho and Diogo Jota. They were so effective that Solskjaer switched to a back three at Molineux in April 2019. United lost 2-1.
At 6ft 2in, Nuno is the only Premier League manager to walk into a press room and appear as daunting as Duncan Ferguson. As a former goalkeeper, he was never going to tolerate Matt Turner.
Forest have upgraded from one of the worst goalkeepers to ever play in the Premier League to one of the best goalkeepers in the league this season. Matz Sels is nine games away from claiming the Golden Glove award for clean sheets.
That is an individual accolade that ought to belong to the collective. Sels is shielded by the rock-steady Murillo, a recent Brazil debutant, and Nikola Milenkovic, once shortlisted by Jose Mourinho as a potential centre-back recruit at United. Milenkovic was the man of the match in the tedious tie with Brighton on Saturday.
In front of them are Ryan Yates, local hero and club captain, and the dexterous Elliot Anderson. Yates played across the Trent on loan at Notts County before breaking into the Forest team nearly seven years ago. Anderson was a sale Newcastle United were loath to make in the summer and unfortunate not to make the cut for Thomas Tuchel's contentious first England squad.
The pair underpin Anthony Elanga, Morgan Gibbs-White and Callum Hudson-Odoi, mercurial and creative players bound to service the striker. And the striker has seldom stopped scoring. Chris Wood has 18 league goals this term - six times as many as United's number nine.
Rasmus Hojlund cost £64million rising to £72m. Wood fetched a fee of £25m. He is the right striker at the right club for the right manager. Hojlund's managers have already changed and United's formations have done so drastically.
Wood, Elanga, Hudson-Odoi and Murillo arrived in 2023. Sels, Milenkovic and Anderson joined last year. Gibbs-White and full back Neco Williams are the only members of the bloated 2022 intake who have established themselves.
It cannot be that hard for United to assemble a credible squad within two or three years. The target of a title in 2028 is not fanciful if - and it is an 'if' as tall as Lord Foster's masts for the 'New Trafford' - they recruit well.
United have harped on about the profitability and sustainability rules for a few years. Forest fell foul of them and were deducted four points. If Forest were sleeping giants, United are the giant tumbling haplessly out of the beanstalk.
Forest and fellow east midlanders Leicester have climbed from the second tier to relegation fodder to (probable) Champions League participants in the last ten years. That's something else for United to mull, away from Kintyre.
