
Myers Departs A Panthers Legend
Incoming and outgoing players are part and parcel of any sporting enterprise, and sometimes, there…
Incoming and outgoing players are part and parcel of any sporting enterprise, and sometimes, there comes a time when those players are your favourites, even club legends, akin to that recently announced as having departed the Nottingham Panthers, theirs being that of Matthew Myers. At 38-years-old, Myers, who has spent the past two seasons at…
Notts County did not waste any time diving into the market this summer as a week ago today, the club completed the signing of Sutton United winger Will Randall. The 26-year-old was deemed as one of the clubs most influential players since joining them back in 2019, where he won promotion to the EFL and…
At Lady Bay, and following on from a successful, end-of-season awards night, Head Coach Craig Hammond, has been sorting out the numbers ahead of the new campaign, and announcing a handful of new signings along the way. Having been narrowly edged in the last game of what was, on-field, a tough season for the Archers,…
Since the league season wrapped up in the rugby, in late April, there’s been some Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire (NLD) Cup, and Papa Johns Community Cup, action for two of the county’s sides, Paviors, and West Bridgford. Double success came by the way of Paviors RFC in the NLD (Notts, Lincs and Derbyshire) competitions, their…
Nottingham Panthers and new Head Coach, Jonathan Paredes are busying themselves for the new, EIHL season later this year, securing the services of both Mike Caruso and Stephen Anderson, whilst also signing Finnish forward, Otto Nieminen, from Odense Bulldogs, in Denmark. Of the three, the returning stars will no doubt delight the Panthers faithful, both…
A couple of new signings already through the door at the One Call Stadium, now Nigel Clough and Mansfield Town have announced their pre-season schedule for the Stags faithful. Last seasons’ loan striker, Will Swan, has made his move from Nottingham Forest, to Mansfield, a permanent one, and veteran midfielder, Stephen Quinn, has signed a…
“It’s really important to tell their stories and I’d love to hear grandad’s story, and he wants to do it,” Vicky McClure, 2023. Eighty years ago, the D-Day Landings took place on the beaches of Normandy, France, among them, a promising young footballer, Ralph McClure, of Collingham Footway, the Meadows, in Nottingham. Fast-forward eighty years,…
Mansfield Town boss, Nigel Clough, has continued with his strengthening of the Stags back-line with his second, defensive signing, of the summer window, bringing in centre-half, Baily Cargill, from the now, League Two side, Forest Green Rovers. Winchester-born Cargill spent a number of years on the books at South Coast outfit, AFC Bournemouth, having finished…
After defeat at Worcester on Friday night, Nottinghamshire Outlaws bounced back with two victories, on Saturday night against Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston before a win in the sun against Lancashire on Sunday at Trent Bridge. On Friday despite home advantage, Notts were beaten by the Vitality Blast North Group leaders Worcestershire who emulated their ‘Rapids’…
Just as Brian Clough’s men did in 1980 the NFFC walking football squad landed on Spanish soil to defend the European trophy they lifted a year previously. Twelve months ago, the over 50’s and over 60’s sides both emerged victorious in the tournament hosted in Santa Ponsa, this time around they aimed to go one…
As the gates clunk shut at grounds around the country to signal the end of May and another football season, players will head off for well-earned rests to every popular destination you’d find in a travel agent. Aside from participation in the FA Cup and European finals, teams are now left free to lick their…
Notts Outlaws 174/4-182/6 Yorkshire Vikings (T20 Blast North Group) 30.05.23 It’s two wins and two defeats from the first four games of the T20 Blast season for Nottinghamshire who couldn’t follow up a win at Durham on Bank Holiday Monday as they were beaten by eight runs against Yorkshire Vikings at Trent Bridge on Tuesday…
As starts to a season go, that enjoyed by Vanden Warner’s Nottingham Caesars in the current, British American Football Association (BAFA) NFC1 South campaign, is one to excite Nottingham, and the East Midlands as a whole. Albeit beginning a little later than other sides, the Caesars never let that fact distract them from the job…
Yorkshire League Division One, four games in for a couple of clubs, and it’s already becoming a season of first for the Nottingham Outlaws Rugby League outfit, despite having lost their opening two matches. An opening day, 46-10 humping at home to Hull Wyke, was sharp followed by a narrow, 28-24 loss against hosts, Cutsyke…
A Party at Palace, Cooper’s Reds have made history once again. They said it couldn’t be done. They said it won’t happen. They said he [Cooper] was out the door by the next morning. They didn’t believe – but Cooper did, the team did, and the fans did – Nottingham Forest’s survival success story is…
The Owzat Nottinghamshire Premier League is very much up-and-running, with sides having played half-a-dozen matches thus far in the Premier League, Cavaliers and Carrington CC (36pts) the early pace-setters with four wins from their opening outings. Cuckney CC are level with Cavaliers (36 pts), with Kimberley Institute CC (34pts) just two behind the early pace-setters;…
The first new signing of the summer transfer window, will soon be walking through the doors of Mansfield Town’s One Call Stadium, when having also announced a contract extension for Stephen Quinn, and the signing of ex-Nottingham Forest loanee Will Swann, on a permanent deal, the Stags also brought in left-back, Nottingham-born Calum Macdonald. Having…
Nottingham born boxer Leigh Wood is WBA Featherweight Champion of the world, again, after beating Mauricio Lara in his rematch fight in Manchester on Saturday night. Mexican Lara stopped Wood in the seventh round in Nottingham three months ago but the 34-year-old wasted little time in putting that record straight, dominating a fight that went…
Notts Outlaws 182/6-178/6 Derbyshire Falcons (T20 Blast North Group) 26.05.23 What more could you ask for? A scorching Friday night, a packed Trent Bridge, a win for Nottinghamshire against their East Midlands rivals, a perfect start to the Vitality Blast campaign for the Outlaws. It was new overseas signing Shaheen Afridi who had the pleasure…
Renan Lodi: What is his future, and what does he offer to Nottingham Forest? Following a swirl of rumours back in the summer, Renan Lodi joined Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan move from Atletico Madrid, where he featured a total of 84 times over three campaigns, under one of the most defensively astute managers…