New Beginnings – Joel Taylor Interview
After a period that was just shy of two years as a Notts County player,…
New Beginnings – Joel Taylor Interview
After a period that was just shy of two years as a Notts County player, the club confirmed the departure of full-back Joel Taylor last week, following a mutual agreement to terminate the 26-year-old’s contract. Joel arrived at the club ahead of the 21-22 Vanarama National League season, the first for the club under the…
BUCS Going For Gold Again
Head Coach Jason Scott is creating somewhat of a dynasty over at the University of Nottingham, his BUCS Gold side heading into Tuesday’s battle with the UWE (University of West England) Bullets, for the National Championship. He’s not averse to winning championships either, is Scott, both as a player, and as a coach; in fact,…
Who’d Be A Referee?
A Friday evening Sky TV fixture and it’s Nottingham Forest 1 – Newcastle United 1. Then the visitors score a late winner before … . Pause. In a different sort of fixture we had the fallout from the Gary Lineker v BBC ‘Match Of The Day’ shambles. Unscheduled but it’s taken up – and continues…
Stags To Face Magpies In County Cup
The 2023 Nottinghamshire FA Women’s County Cup final will be contested between two sides from the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Premier Division, Mansfield Town, and Notts County. Andi Bell’s Mansfield side saw off the tough challenge of FA Women’s National League Midlands Reserves Division leaders, Nottingham Forest Reserves, 5-3 on penalties, following a…
Panthers Well Beaten By Storm
The Nottingham Panthers endured yet another difficult night as they were defeated 5-1 by the Manchester Storm at the NIC. Goals from Scott Simmonds (2), Anthony DeLuca, Chase Harrison and Tyson Fawcett overruled Stephen Anderson’s consolation goal and consigned Nottingham to an eighth defeat in their last 10 games on home ice. The defeat extends…
Nottingham End Lady Bay Ton In Defeat
A battling performance was insufficient for the Archers of Nottingham as the hundredth game at Lady Bay ended in defeat when hosting the power-hungry, RFU Championship leaders, Ealing Trailfinders. They tried, oh did they try, Kehinde Olowofela with an early try for the hosts, whilst Taiye Olowofela also crossed early in the second period, and…
Kimberley & Newark Share Eight
Four, was the magic number, in the United Counties Premier North on Saturday afternoon, with Kimberley Miners Welfare, when hosting Newark & Sherwood United, in a local dust-up, shared eight goals, in a 4-4 draw. The first half, it belonged to the visitors, goals coming from Kian Sketchley, Ainsley Finney and Luke White, in the…
Worksop Crowned Champions
“The first one is on the board, now let’s get the next one.” Worksop Town manager, Craig Parry, after winning the league title with the Tigers. Mid-March, and the Tigers of Worksop Town have become the first, crowned champions in the country, following a destructive, 4-0 win, over visitors Tadcaster Albion, it coupled with second…
Stags Battle Hard To Earn Point
Stockport County 1-1 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 18.03.23 Nigel Clough and his Mansfield Town charges left Edgeley Park on Saturday night with their promotion aspirations still in their own hands, battling to a hard-earned point against fellow promotion-chasers, Stockport County. The Stags, they’ve been a little erratic of late, but this was to be…
100 Up At Lady Bay
The Archers are preparing to host ‘100 Games at Lady Bay’ this coming weekend, when they welcome RFU Championship leaders, Ealing Trailfinders. It’ll be the one hundredth game in which Lady Bay has hosted at the ground, since they moved there from Meadow Lane at the beginning of 2015, and current Head Coach, a former…
Ten Men Stags Beaten At Sixfields
Northampton Town 1-0 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 14.03.23 It was a bad night in Northampton in midweek for Nigel Clough’s Stags, but it could have easily been much worse at the Sixfields Stadium. One red card (Stephen Quinn, midway through the second) could easily have been two, on any other day, following visiting Stags…
The Woman Behind The Defence
“The Caesars have a huge opportunity to win the division this year and I am enjoying being part of the coaching team, and bringing some new ideas to the defensive side of the ball.” Laura Moore, 2023 Having played both codes of rugby, Union with Nottingham/West Bridgford, and League with the Nottingham Outlaws, Defensive Coach…
Chapman Eyeing Another Promotion
They’re nearly there; having come so close to promotion last season, Retford United, of the Central Midlands League Premier North, are but a handful of wins away from doing so this time around. Twenty-three points clear, with a few games left to go, the Badgers are in a more than promising position, and, to help…
Eagles Land Final Slot
Neil Matthews’ Arnold Eagles, bottom of the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Premier Division, will contest this season’s League Cup final, with high-flying Lincoln United, after the Eagles avenged their previous weeks’ loss, to see off Oughtibridge War Memorial, 4-3. Another Nottinghamshire club, Daniel Corlett’s Nottingham Trent University, of the EMWRFL Division One Central,…
Rouse Rescuing Panthers Social Game
There’s been plenty of changes, on, and off the ice, at the Nottingham Panthers around this, the 2022-23 season, one of those seeing them bring in, late last year, a new media team, to which includes 18-year-old, Sophie Rouse. It’s been a somewhat meteoric rise for the Bramcote, Social Media Executive because, less than a…
Clifford Exits After Basford Loss
Not for the first time in recent months, the non-league scene, nationwide, was severely depleted due to adverse weather conditions, and so it proved across Nottinghamshire, only a handful of games getting the go-ahead. Basford crashed to defeat in their Southern League Central match at home to Barwell, whilst the two games to go ahead…
Archers Win At Richmond – Rugby Round Up
The Archers picked up just their fifth win of the season at the weekend, Craig Hammond’s Nottingham side claiming a hard-fought, 28-17 win, on the road at Richmond. It was to be a victory that pushed them back up to the ninth in the RFU Championship table as sides prepare themselves for the final throes…
Turning To Paige
It’s been another, roller-coaster season, for Beeston Hockey, but it’s been one that has, yet again, seen them qualify for the play-offs. Among their ranks is the experienced, central midfield athlete, the 24-year-old, Paige Gillott, someone who continues to strive to achieve, in every capacity, but it could have been so, very different for her,…
March Matches
‘This was the decisive moment when …’. You can apply your own ending. It’s the time of year when that sentence starter gets rolled out by football punters and fans alike as they try to read the runes taking us to the end of the season. The first weekend fixtures of March gave us plenty…
Newark Hit Eight At Rainworth
Eight goals scored, joint second in the table, and just thirteen points now behind leaders Aylestone Park, Luke Parsons’ Newark Town are flying in the United Counties Division One at present. At home to lowly Rainworth Miners Welfare, the Blues only led 2-1 at the interval but, in the second period, turned on the style,…