Basford United’s pre-season preparations step up a gear as they welcome Nottingham Forest under 23s to Greenwich Avenue on Tuesday night. The fixture offers the first opportunity in six months for fans to watch Nottingham Forest in person, following the recent pandemic, with multiple first team players expected to be involved. Forest come into the…
Newark FC got their Midland Football League campaign off to as flying start over the opening weekend of the season as they beat Worcester City 2-0 at Lowfields with goals from Nathan Stainfield and Craig Westcarr. Having signed from Gainsborough Trinity in the summer it was centre back Stainfield who opened the tangerines account for…
Notts County Women lost a heart-breaking tie against Lincoln United yesterday to go out of the Womens FA Cup at the first attempt in a match played in front of 152 supporters at Greenwich Avenue, Basford. The lady Magpies were eventually beaten on penalties with the full time result ending 4-4 after taking a 3-0…
When I saw Dave Shaw’s post on a Nottingham Forest supporter’s group, not only did I look twice, I had to process the information a third time to fully comprehend the magnitude of it all. He uploaded a picture of his great-grandfather, Walter Shaw, holding aloft the FA Cup in 1959, and there lay the…
Beeston Ladies 1st XI are England Hockey Champions after winning the T1 final yesterday against Clifton Robinsons at the Nottingham Hockey Centre. On a weekend where all the major finals took place in the same place it was Saturday afternoon’s showpiece at Highfields as 2019 holders Clifton took on a Bees side behind closed doors…
Barnsley 1-0 Nottingham Forest (League Cup Round One) 05.09.20 Nottingham Forest are out of the Carabao Cup at the first attempt after a disappointing single goal loss against Barnsley at Oakwell. An underwhelming first half saw chances few and far between as both sides went in at the break having failed to force either goalkeeper…
Burnley 4-2 Mansfield Town (Friendly) 05.09.20 Mansfield Town were beaten this afternoon by Premier League Burnley in a friendly match played behind closed doors. The Stags made a good account of themselves against top level opposition as Ollie Clarke opened the scoring with a cracking effort before Josh Brownhill levelled for the Clarets before half…
Notts County have signed Luke Pilling from Tranmere Rovers as the former Welsh Youth international now 23 is added to the Magpies squad ahead of the new season. The Birkenhead born shot stopper had been with Tranmere since the age of six although was only used as cover at Prenton Park registering just three first…
Notts Outlaws 124/5-123/8 Leicestershire Foxes (T20 Blast North Group) 04.09.20 Nottinghamshire made it three wins from five (with two no results due to bad weather) as the Outlaws easily dispatched off Leicestershire Foxes at Trent Bridge on Friday night. The Foxes batting first struggled to 123/8 from their twenty overs as the home team bowlers…
Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of Spaniard Miguel Angel Guerrero from Olympiakos after the 30-year-old agreed terms on a permanent deal. Guerrero spent the second half of last season on loan at Leganes where he scored just once in 13 appearances after joining the Greek side in 2018 where he played 37 matches scoring…
44 days have passed since Stoke City ended Nottingham Forest’s chances of reaching the Championship playoffs last season… Quite a significant number since the greatest Manager of all time in the Reds coveted history lasted exactly that at Leeds United in 1974 before taking on the job at Forest a year later. Whilst the legendary…
Nottingham Forest Women were back in match action at the Eastwood Community Stadium for the first time in 193 days last night as the Reds took on Wolves in a pre-season friendly match full of goals. New signings in the starting XI included Charlotte Greengrass from Aston Villa and Hayley James from Leicester City and…
Cast your mind back little over three years and to the last day of the season, Sunday 7th May 2017, when Nottingham Forest needed to beat Ipswich Town at the City Ground to stay in the Football League Championship. With 38 minutes gone during a tense but sunny afternoon in Nottingham, Danny Rowe’s speculative shot…
Notts County will become the first of our three professional clubs since March to play in front of paying fans as they take on Ilkeston Town this weekend in a 3pm Kick Off at the New Manor Ground. The Magpies face a familiar Northern Premier League opponent in Ilkeston on Saturday who play three steps…
Carlton Town last night reached the preliminary round of the FA Cup after coming from behind to earn a shootout victory against Loughborough University at the Bill Stokeld Stadium. Loughborough took the lead when Cashmore rounded the keeper to slot home on seven minutes and the Scholars were good value for their slender advantage which…
The hugely anticipated and expected move for Nottingham Forest full back Matty Cash has been finalised as the young 23-year-old joins Aston Villa in a signing that could be worth up to a record £16m paid to Forest. One of the star players last season not just for the Reds but in the Championship, Cash…
We have seen in recent years massive strides taken towards the equality of publicity given towards women’s sport in particular with football and cricket becoming more and more popular mainstream but there is still much more to do as those bridges between male and female athletes and there competitions need building better together for more…
Notts Outlaws match at Lancashire Lightening has been abandoned due to the wet weather in Liverpool after the Umpires called the decision to share the points between the North Group Vitality Blast top two sides. On reflection it might not be a bad result for Notts who see their second T20 fixture of the summer…
“Mick Waitt is living proof that you can fulfil your football dreams… No matter how impossible they may seem.” Says Paul Mace a Notts County fan and former Director at Meadow Lane who now runs a podcast dedicated to his favourite club. In an uplifting interview for Magpie Circle which will be aired live this…
This afternoon will see a top of the table clash in the Vitality Blast North Group as Notts Outlaws travel to Aigburth Cricket Club in Liverpool to face Lancashire Lightening in a 2:30pm start that will see the winner of the match take number one position alone in the standings. Both sides have five points…
