Hoods Make Positive Change
Changes afoot in Nottingham ahead of the new Basketball season with National Basketball League Division…
Hoods Make Positive Change
Changes afoot in Nottingham ahead of the new Basketball season with National Basketball League Division One outfit, Nottingham Hoods, welcoming on-board both a new co-owner, and a new head coach as the excitement continues to build. A narrow defeat at the weekend, as the Hoods welcomed a USA Select to the Wildcats Arena, was certainly…
Women’s Round Up: Forest Hit Nine
Nottingham Forest Women continued their emphatic start to the new season with a comfortable, 9-0 home win, against Stourbridge, this past weekend – victory moving them top of the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier. In hitting their opponents for nine, Sophie Domingo bagging the first women’s hat-trick at the City Ground, on what was…
CML Round Up: Ollerton Edge Glapwell
After relegation last season, Ollerton Town’s start to life in the Central Midlands Alliance Premier North has been an interesting, high-scoring one, to say the least. Sitting joint-fourth (fifth) in the table, after nine games played, eleven points off early pace-setters Dinnington Town JFC, and with 42 goals in their games thus far – supporters…
NSL Round Up: Webb Debuts For Cranmers
There was certainly plenty of goals witnessed this past Saturday in the Euro Soccer Nottinghamshire Senior League, nearly fifty being scored in the eight, Premier Division games alone. Cotgrave, sitting in fourth place, helped themselves to nine of them when on the road at lowly Beeston, a 9-1 win boosting their goal-difference at this early…
McGoldrick Double Sinks Stanley
Notts County 2-0 Accrington Stanley (EFL League Two) 07.09.24 Notts County’s unbeaten start to the season was extended on Saturday as the Magpies cruised past Accrington Stanley, courtesy of another David McGoldrick brace. County dominated the match overall, boasting a possession percentile of just under 70%, as well as out-shooting their opponents by 8 shots…
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…