Nottingham Wildcats were well beaten in their live streamed WBBL match yesterday as the away side from London went back down south with a comfortable twenty-point victory that takes their league season to 2-0. The Lions eventually winning the match 94-74 after getting off to a perfect start where they lead from the first quarter…
Former Notts County striker Mark Stallard is equally as comfortable in the commentary box as he was in the six yard box at Meadow Lane. With 79 goals in 227 appearances at the turn of the millennium, Stallard is the joint 10th highest scorer in the club’s illustrious history. Nowadays he’s swapped his goalscoring boots…
More flat racing today at Southwell Racecourse and in slightly warmer conditions than there was on Tuesday afternoon too, as French jockey Pierre-Louis Jamin came home first in the first race of the day on Shallow Hal a 5/1 shot trained by Karl Burke. The Class 3, 6 furlong and 16 yard race, the Play…
An act of desperation? Or a touch of ‘nostalgic’ reminiscing between mates just for old times sake? Chris Hughton knows what Nottingham Forest needs; but he’s running out of time and options as the January window shut nears. I’ve been there as a Manager. You ask a mate who’s not played for years to come…
“The Cobra was beginning to make a name for himself.” Carl Froch in ‘The Cobra: My Story’ (2013) It has been eighteen years since ‘The Cobra’ first appeared as a professional in front of his beloved Nottingham fans. Opposing the Guadeloupe-born, Canning Town-based Frenchman Valery Odin, who was 6-5(1) at the time, Carl Froch,…
Notts County 2-0 Solihull Moors (National League) 27.01.21 Two late goals for Kyle Wootton, his seventh and eighth in fifteen National League games this season, were enough to give Notts County all three points against resolute opposition in Solihull at the Lane as the Magpies move into the Playoff places and above their West Midland…
Nottingham Wildcats are in action tomorrow night as they play London Lions in the WBBL at the Wildcats Arena in a 5pm tip off streamed live on YouTube and free to air via Nottingham Sport. The Wildcats lost agonisingly on Saturday against Essex Rebels as the team fell to a 91-95 overtime defeat at the…
Much has been made of the impact Brexit might have on our British clubs’ transfer business in the coming years. Nottingham Forest, already shopping closer to home this winter, are reportedly looking to bring AFC Bournemouth’s Dan Gosling to the City Ground on loan and now lead the race for Peterborough United winger Siriki Dembélé…
The team at Southwell Racecourse worked tirelessly over the weekend to get on today’s frosty event at the All Weather Nottinghamshire track with Clerk of the Course, Paul Barker, telling Sky Sports At The Races channel that his men with tractors in force “started preparing at short notice on Saturday evening, working from 8 o’clock…
Notts County have reversed their National League fixture against Solihull Moors tonight so instead of travelling to the West Midlands today, the Magpies will now host their opponents at Meadow Lane in a 7:45pm kick off tomorrow night. Neal Ardley’s men are eighth in the division, a place outside the playoffs and a point behind…
Wes Thomas might be remembered at Notts County as the man who refused to play due to covid-19. Thomas recently refused to train with the club, concerned for himself and his family that his health couldn’t be guaranteed, and now the striker who scored 10 goals in 38 appearances for the Magpies since signing in…
As we have seen England’s openers struggle largely out in Sri Lanka (that was until Dom Sibley’s terrific second innings in Galle today). I always end up full circle when I seek through the county championships shortlist of competent possibilities that Joe Root and co should choose from to take the new ball in test…
Southend United 0-1 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 23.01.21 A fifth successive league win, ironically since drawing with Southend at Field Mill in December, has seen a meteoric rise for Mansfield Town who today sit just five points below the playoffs and more impressively, eleven points ahead of the drop zone. Nigel Clough’s men have…
Swansea City 5-1 Nottingham Forest (FA Cup Fourth Round) 23.01.21 Nottingham Forest were humiliatingly dumped out of the FA Cup as their hosts Swansea City ran riot in South Wales to knock out Chris Hughton’s men at the fourth round stage. The home side got off to the perfect start after just seven minutes when…
Notts County 0-0 Torquay United (National League) 23.01.21 It was stalemate at Meadow Lane as Notts County took on the divisions top team Torquay United. In the end the draw a fair reflection as neither team on the day did enough to win. National League debuts were given for both sides players as Inih Effiong…
Nottingham Forest have signed Filip Krovinovic on loan from Benfica as Zach Clough heads out of the City Ground after a dismal few years which had seen the former Bolton Wanderers playmaker shelved and shoved out of sight in the club’s bomb squad. Croatian Krovinovic played a significant role in West Bromwich Albion’s promotion season…
Fouad ‘Fred’ Bachirou is back in the Nottingham Forest squad for tomorrows trip to Wales as the Reds take on Swansea City in the fourth round of the FA Cup. The French born Comoros international midfielder has played just once for Forest since signing in the summer from Swedish side Malmo, against Barnsley on the…
Notts County are back in league action for the first time since 28th December as the two tiers below the National League (North & South Divisions) today call a two-month suspension to the season’s proceedings. The highest tier of non-league football has had a traumatic campaign with Notts playing just fourteen matches so far, still…
When we set up the Nottingham Sport in October 2019, we envisaged twelve months later hosting our first awards ceremony for the best local athletes, teams and Notts sportspeople of 2020. We chose the year because we thought it had a nice sounding ring with it to start fresh from, we thought of a nice…
Ricky Ravenhill was a serial winner – not just with Notts County but with Bradford City, Doncaster Rovers and in New Zealand under former Notts man Mick Waitt too. But undoubtedly it was the League Two championship success in 2009 with the Magpies which the midfielder lists as his most surreal and bizarre, in the…
