Has Reds Window Been Best Yet?
Jamie Martin asks is this Forest’s best transfer window since Premier League return? It’s done,…
Has Reds Window Been Best Yet?
Jamie Martin asks is this Forest’s best transfer window since Premier League return? It’s done, it’s confirmed, all the late twists and turns have either formalised, or failed. The window is officially over. And while the need for a “frontman” hasn’t been resolved with a transfer in this window, Forest still have options, and could…
England Star Elwiss Next In For Blaze
The Blaze have completed the signing of versatile all-rounder Georgia Elwiss from Southern Vipers on a two-year deal. The 33-year-old will join the club upon the expiry of her current contract at the end of this season. It marks a return to the East Midlands for the 54-times capped England player, having spent four years…
Nottingham Forest Netball Squad Announced
Next year (2025) will see Netball’s Super League celebrate its 20th Anniversary, and Nottingham Forest have entered the party, led by England national team legend, Chelsea Pitman, and her all-star cast. The league replaced what was the AENA Super Cup back in 2005 with eight teams vying for the title, which was won by the…
Lions Beat Sheffield In Season Opener
The Nottingham Lions got their 2024/25 NIHL1 campaign underway with a battle against main league rivals, the Sheffield Scimitars, at the National Ice Centre on Sunday night. The Lions entered the game with winning the past 3 match ups against Sheffield, however in last season’s opener between these two it went the way of the…
Collingham Closing In
Last seasons’ Euro Soccer Nottinghamshire Senior League Premier Division runners-up, and NSL Senior Cup winners, Collingham, are sitting second after the opening half dozen or so games, three behind early pacesetters Borrowash Victoria, who’ve a game in hand. Having begun the current campaign with five wins from seven, Collingham have already passed the twenty-goals scored…
Linby Heading The Way
The 2024/25 season of the Central Midlands Alliance League is well underway, most clubs having already played around half-a-dozen or so matches with two Notts-based clubs leading their respective divisions. Linby Colliery Welfare head up the Premier South, with seven wins and a loss from a busy August, whilst Mansfield Hosiery Mills Blue head up…
Reds Women Hit Wolves For Six
Carly Davies’ Nottingham Forest maintained their 100% start to the season when they followed up their midweek cup win over local rivals Notts County, with another six-goal hammering, this time over league rivals, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Coasting to a four-goal interval lead, the Reds, who’ve now netted twenty-two goals in their opening four matches, are joint-top…
Blaze Sign Phillips On Loan
The Blaze have secured the services of seamer Charley Phillips from Sunrisers. The 21-year-old will join on loan for the remainder of this year’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy campaign, before a permanent two-year deal from November. She becomes the first new face to sign for The Blaze in the restructured domestic system, with Trent Bridge…
Ahmed Breaks Record In Draw
Sixteen-year-old Nottinghamshire spinner Farhan Ahmed became the youngest ever player to take a County Championship five-for and the youngest to take a 10-wicket haul in first class cricket in England. Farhan, brother of England and Leicestershire all-rounder Rehan, comes from a family of locally born cricketers and it was his performance, largely, that abled Notts…
Basford Hit Six In Cup
Basford United hit Sporting Khalsa for a big six in the First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup on Saturday. The Ambers beating the West Midlanders from Willenhall 6-1 at Greenwich Avenue, a stunning display of attacking football from the Northern Premier League side. Jordan Hallam got Martin Carruthers men underway with an 18th minute…
Didzy Double Helps Notts Beat Swindon
Swindon Town 1-2 Notts County (EFL League Two) 31.08.24 Notts County’s unbeaten start to the new EFL League Two season remained intact on Saturday as they triumphed over Swindon Town at the County Ground. Although it would be the home side to start the match better, as Will Wright made a good challenge on Curtis…
Lister Reflects As SJR Kick Off Campaign
Opening the new campaign with a home game against Stamford AFC, Abbie Lister, captain of newly-promoted SJR Worksop, recently took some time out for a chat with the Nottingham Sport. Champions, narrowly, of the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Division One North last season, by a point from runners-up Oughtibridge War Memorial, Worksop join…
County Cup Draw
Nottinghamshire FA has made, and published, the opening round draw for their men’s, and women’s County Cup competitions, along with those sides receiving byes to the next round. In their flagship, Saturday Senior Cup, last season’s winners, Nottingham Forest U21s, and runners-up Basford United, along with the other six quarter-finalists in Carlton Town, Clipstone, Eastwood…
Unbeaten Notts Ready For Swindon
With the new EFL League Two season well underway, Notts County’s second successive campaign back in the fourth tier has so far been good, unbeaten with two draws and a win, but further performances and results will be evaluated with a view towards progression over the remainder of the campaign and what may be in…
Reds Exit Carabao On Penalties
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Newcastle United *3-4 pens (EFL Cup Round Two) 29.08.24 A much changed Nottingham Forest were beaten by Newcastle United at the City Ground but only out after valiant fight. After a frantic start, Forest stabilised, but despite their most valiant, and in many ways impressive efforts, Newcastle came out victorious, advancing to…
Kirk & Hughes Extend With Blaze
Batter Michaela Kirk and wicket-keeper batter Scarlett Hughes have each signed one-year contracts with The Blaze. Hughes joined The Blaze earlier this year and has recently made a positive return to action following injury. A score of 45 in a friendly against Thunder preceded a near-run-a-ball 38 against Central Sparks. “Injury has made it a…
United Pip Robins In Derby
Bank Holiday Monday usually means non-league derby day and making the short trip down the A610 were Ilkeston Town, ready to face cross border rivals Basford United at Greenwich Avenue in what has recently became quite a new rivalry in the Northern Premier League. So short, is the nine-mile difference, some supporters of Ilkeston Town…
The Maynard Reign – So Far
January 18th 2024, 221 days ago, Stuart Maynard was appointed as the new Head Coach of Notts County Football Club following the departure of promotion-winning boss Luke Williams to Swansea City. As imaginable, a difficult man to be successor to with Williams achieving what the club was crying out for, promotion back to the Football…
Forest Surge Against Sporting
The more things change, the more things stay the same; an adage that can be attributed to Nottingham Forest Women when, after a season of change in playing staff, the FA Women’s National League North outfit have, thus far, began the new campaign, with two wins from two. In scoring ten, and conceding zero, the…
Forest Win On The Road
Southampton 0-1 Nottingham Forest (Premier League) 24.08.24 Forest returned to away action in the Premier League, in a battle down south at Southampton’s St Mary’s stadium, where the Reds came home with all three points after a productive match. The First Half Similar to last weekends draw to Bournemouth, Forest took hold of the first…