Mansfield Town have signed former Forest & Notts County winger Stephen McLaughlin from Southend United on a short term deal. The Irishman now 30 has played over 150 games for the Shrimpers since joining them in 2015 and is a player Manager Graham Coughlan knows well. The fellow countryman of the Donegal born winger said…
After seeing out their 4 day season with a draw against Durham earlier this week, Nottinghamshire are back in T20 action as the Outlaws take on Lancashire Lightening tonight at Trent Bridge before facing Derbyshire on Sunday in back-to-back home games. For Notts a win will take them to outright top position in the North…
Basford United’s under 18s were in stunning form as they won 7-1 away to Alfreton Town in the FA Youth Cup. The visitors strolled into the lead through Sam Newell’s effort and never looked back from there. Rory Harrison and Jacob Taylor quickly made it 3-0 before Wayde Hines curled in a free-kick for four….
Both the Dan Sutton Trophy Semi-Finals and Final will be played this weekend after it was agreed with the clubs to bring forward the original final date from Saturday 19th September to Sunday 13th September 2020. The competition organised by the Owzat Notts Premier League has been a successful shortened 40 over format this summer…
Nottingham Panthers star forward Julian Talbot has hung up his hockey skates after deciding to call it a day following the Elite Hockey League’s failure to resume post covid-19. The 35-year-old Canadian only joined the Panthers in October 2019 but soon shown his quality with 15 goals and 15 assists (30pts) in 33 EIHL games…
When Sabri Lamouchi sends his Forest side out to battle against QPR this Saturday, he will hope there are no lingering demons of last year’s capitulation – after 53 days, is there still a hangover amongst the squad following their shortcomings? Everyone connected to the club will hope not, Lamouchi more than anyone. The mercy…
Notts County have signed Mansfield Town youngster Jimmy Knowles on a season long loan as Manager Neal Ardley strengthens his forward line depth ahead of the campaign. Knowles has shown promise at the Stags in pre-season and joins the Notts attack to provide competition to the likes of Wes Thomas, Kyle Wootton and Elisha Sam….
Carlton Town and West Bridgford FC are two teams from Nottinghamshire who were expected to play in Saturdays FA Cup Preliminary Round stage that have now been awarded byes due to the opposition conceding their ties no thanks to covid-19. Carlton were supposed to face GNG Oadby Town on Saturday after beating Loughborough University in…
There seems to be one echoing statement shared from the social corridors of the internet when it comes to what fans think of Sabri Lamouchi and Nottingham Forest. “If Sabri’s team continues to play the same old way, Forest are doomed” Is pretty much the unilateral opinion that deafens the walls of Facebook, Twitter and…
Nottinghamshire 422 & 82/1 v Durham 294 & 329 (Bob Willis Trophy North Group) *Match drawn 06.09.20 – 09.09.20 (match played over 4 days) The final match of what seems to have been a successful shortened format of four-day cricket ended in another draw for Nottinghamshire as they were held by a resilient run scoring…
Just three sleeps until Mansfield Town return to football league action as they face Tranmere Rovers on Saturday upcoming in the new seasons’ opener after (and midst) stranger times following the last League Two game played all the way back in the third month of this long and miserable year. You have to go as…
As the Premier League season is almost upon us our very own ‘no average’ Joe talks football in his own simplest way and points out the first of ‘some more’ players, brief portraits, in an almost poetic allusion to some of those greats of our game. Football remembered in the most basic of ways. Ahead…
Kimberley Miners Welfare 1-3 Carlton Town (Friendly) 08.09.20 A youthful Carlton Town side won 3-1 at Kimberley Miners Welfare last night. In an eventful game on an excellent playing surface, both sides would have scored more goals but for some excellent goalkeeping and, in Kimberley’s case, the woodwork which denied the home side three times….
Notts County have re-signed defender Sam Graham from Sheffield United, a player who was on loan at the club last season and one who will return for a second spell after his initial move was cut short through injury. The young central defender was loaned out by the Blades at the start of the 2019/20…
Basford United 2-2 Nottingham Forest U23 (Friendly) 08.09.20 Basford United twice came from behind to secure a 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest Under23s at Greenwich Avenue. Virgil Gomis scored either side of Niall Towle’s strike to give the Reds a slender advantage at the break. The second half saw Basford on the front foot and…
Mansfield Town 0-3 Manchester City U21 (Football League Trophy Group E) 08.09.20 Mansfield Town were well beaten this evening at the One Call Stadium, Field Mill as Manchester City under 21’s took the spoils in the first EFL Trophy match of the 2020/21 season. City took the lead on 25 minutes when Adrian Bernabe Garcia…
Notts County will face Dover Athletic in the National League season opener on Saturday 3rd October 2020 after the fixture schedule was confirmed for the upcoming 2020/21 season. The Magpies will face a tough trip to Kent on the opening day before hosting Altrincham three days later at Meadow Lane. Neal Ardley’s side will travel…
The Dan Sutton Trophy Semi-Final stage has been finalised after both groups of the Owzat Nottinghamshire Premier League concluded at the weekend with Radcliffe-on-Trent topping the south and Kimberley Institute finishing top of the north after ten games of maximum 40 over cricket. Squashed into little over six weeks the group stages were a huge…
Nottingham boxer Ekow Essuman starts the final week countdown towards the biggest fight in his career so far this Saturday night as he takes on Frenchman Cedrick Peynaud in an IBF European Welterweight Title bout live on TV. Unbeaten Essuman aged 31 has 13 wins from 13 pro fights and takes on a fighter who…
It was, of course, a very disappointing return to action for the Reds in their 1-0 defeat against Barnsley on Saturday afternoon. An uninspired, below par performance from Forest saw them exit the Carabao Cup at the first opportunity. But are we reading too much into what unfolded between 3 and 5pm, at an empty…
