Nottingham Forest youngster Alex Mighten has signed a new deal at the club that will see him contracted for the next five years at the City Ground. The eighteen year-old made his debut last season in the Carabao Cup at Arsenal before making his first start in the FA Cup at Chelsea and has impressed…
Radcliffe-on-Trent Cricket Club were beaten at the weekend by Wollaton to register the Notts Premier League South league leaders first defeat of the season. Batting first on Saturday Wollaton registered 171 all out with Jibran Azam top scoring on 48, it was Jacob Deavin-Baker who produced fabulous bowling statistics with 6/27 to help give the…
Height and reach advantage gave the awkward Light Heavyweight Shakan Pitters the edge in a toughly contested bout that went the distance in Redditch as the Birmingham born unbeaten boxer won the Lonsdale Belt on all three of the judges’ scorecards. Pittance, now 14 wins and no losses, was always favourite against Sugden who entered…
Long Eaton United 2-1 Basford United (Friendly) 22.08.20 Basford United suffered their first loss of pre-season as they went down 2-1 to Long Eaton United. Former Long Eaton man Niall Towle fired Basford into a half time lead. Romaine Graham then stuck three minutes after the restart and with less than ten minutes left on the…
Mansfield Town 0-3 Rotherham United (Friendly) 22.08.20 Mansfield Town were beaten by Rotherham United in a pre-season friendly at Field Mill this afternoon, the Stags third friendly of the summer as they look to increase fitness on their league season start in three weeks time. The Stags started the better of the two sides with…
A local PT Jack Smith has arranged a football match this Sunday afternoon to raise awareness and cash for the Mental Health Foundation. The match is to be played at Eastwood Community FC’s Coronation Park Stadium and will kick off at 5:30pm with a number of local known amateur players taking part. It is the…
Connell Rawlinson was last night announced as Notts County’s Fans Player of the Year for the 2019/20 campaign after a magnificent first season at Meadow Lane following his move from Port Vale. The big defender made 34 league appearances for the Magpies but was an unused substitute in both playoff matches with Manager Neal Ardley…
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club are still looking for their first win in this seasons inaugural competition of the Bob Willis Trophy but Coach Peter Moores team captained by Steven Mullaney are looking rejuvenated after a fine display in the third match of the Northern Group against Lancashire before eventually running out of time on Tuesday…
Notts County Women will face Lincoln United Ladies in the Women’s FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round on Sunday 6th September as they start their campaign in the world’s most famous cup competition. The Lady Magpies currently play in the East Midlands Regional Women’s Football League at level six on the football pyramid and will host…
Newark born boxer Chad Sugden will fight live on free-to-air television on Saturday night as he faces Shakan Pitters for the British Light Heavyweight title. Former kick boxer Sugden who has 11 wins from 13 fights professionally, drew with the much rated Craig Richards in an eight round bout at the York Hall in December…
Beeston Hockey Club’s young international star Gareth Griffiths has been nominated for a talented athlete award by TASS the talented athlete scholarship scheme. The youngster has been shortlisted in the ‘Most Committed’ category for athletes showing true dedication to sport and study after a fabulous year at Nottingham University capped off on the pitch by…
Four Nottinghamshire Cricketers will play for the Lightening team that will represent the East Midlands in this summers Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy with one match played against Thunder at Trent Bridge on Saturday 29th August. Lucy Higham, Shachi Pai, Sophie Munro and Teresa Graves have all been named in the squad of 15 that will…
Danish International Casper Sloth has signed for Notts County as the club announce their third new signing of the summer and one that will add more quality into the Magpies midfield. 28 year old Sloth has won eight caps for Denmark including one verses England at Wembley having started out in his homeland making over…
In the space of one week Nottingham Forest welcomed three new arrivals through the doors of the City Ground, in the form of Jack Colback, Tyler Blackett and Lyle Taylor. The three signings, all free transfers, represents good business by the Reds; appearing to fulfill their number one goal of this transfer window. Bringing in…
Mansfield Town have cemented another capture to their playing staff as defender Aaron O’Driscoll joins after impressing in a trial game against Nottingham Forest under 23’s earlier in the week. O’Driscoll was released by Premier League Southampton this summer after four years at St Mary’s Stadium and the Dublin born centre back aged 21 is…
Notts County striker Kristian Dennis has left the club for Scottish Premiership side St Mirren after he rejected a new deal to stay at Meadow Lane following his contract running out this summer. Dennis scored 17 goals for the Magpies over two seasons after joining the club from Chesterfield in 2018 with five of those…
If ever there was a non-league day Tuesday 18th August 2020 will always be that. On the very same day that the draws for the opening rounds of the FA Cup, FA Trophy and FA Vase was announced the football governing bodies also announced (with the help of the Government and thanks to one or…
Notts County yesterday signed combative midfielder Jake Reeves after his contract expired with League Two Bradford City in June. The former Wimbledon player has previously worked under Neal Ardley who has high regard for the 27 year old former Tottenham youth player who has also had spells at Brentford and Swindon. On signing with Notts…
Basford United 1-1 Eastwood Community (Friendly) 18.08.20 Basford United’s pre-season continued with a 1-1 draw at home to Eastwood CFC. After a goalless first half both sides struck inside the opening 10 minutes of the second half with Kieran Knight’s penalty cancelling out Niall Towle’s opener. Eastwood started the game quickly and with just a…
Lancashire 173 & 200/1 v Nottinghamshire 472 (Bob Willis Trophy North Group) *Match drawn 15.08.20 – 18.08.20 (match played over 4 days) In a home match for Lancashire played at Trent Bridge the two teams in action shared the spoils over three out of four days at least after Sunday became a wettened wipe out…
