The Wimbledon FA Cup winner played over 300 games for both Forest and Chelsea in his career.
Speaking to today's Forest match programme, Beasant recalled: "I loved it there. I think people around Nottingham knew how much I loved it up there. When I first signed for Forest, Dave Bassett was the manager who signed me.
“I was only on loan first of all for three months. It was a month loan that became three months on loan. Then I signed permanently, but I actually trained at Chelsea while I was a Forest player — Monday and Tuesday — and then I would go up to Nottingham for training on Thursday and Friday for the game on Saturday.”
While joining Forest, Beasant still trained with Chelsea during the week.
He continued: “So, I was still going in at Chelsea, and then when we won promotion at the end of the first season, the same thing happened the following season — so I’m training down at Chelsea and they’re in the same league as us!
“I’d train with the reserves, and my coach was Mike Kelly — he was from down here as well — so he would come in and work with me so I’d get the work I needed.
“Chelsea’s first team would have gone in, and as I was going in half an hour after their training finished, Gianfranco Zola would come out with a bag of balls with a coach, and he was practising free kicks.
“He’d have the wall of dummies out and he was brilliant. He could use the wall as a guide and put it over the top because the goalkeeper’s position isn’t the right position — you’re relying on the wall protecting part of your goal.
“He’d put it over the wall into the top corner, so I’d think, ‘Right, next one, I’m going to start to go a little bit early,’ and then he’d put it back where you’d just come from.
“I’m thinking when we play them, ‘You’ve got a problem here. What do I do?’ And then the coach said, ‘Right, now take the ball out of the way, put the ball into that same position, and you take your perfect position.’ He couldn’t score!
“Because he’s a finesse player — he doesn’t smash it. I’m thinking, ‘Right, when we play Chelsea, if they get a free kick, I’m not going to have a wall.’”