The festivities over with for another year, but some things still remained over the holiday period, a smattering of non-league footballing action delivering presents (or pieces of coal if your side lost) to their loving, endearing supporters, who’ve been there through thick and thin. In Nottinghamshire, over said holiday season, it was the season, near…
Sat on Santa’s knee in the Griffin and Spalding department store by Market Square, aged five, I was tongue-tied until my mum mouthed ‘a Forest shirt’. She had primed me on the bus journey to the grotto as to what to ask for but the words deserted me. Come Christmas Day morning, I got my…
Nottinghamshire sporting royalty was out in force on Wednesday (23 December) night when Salford played host to the annual, BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, one which has been given since way back in 1954. Several stars with Nottinghamshire connections have lifted the main award, including that of Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean, who…
Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Nottingham Forest (EFL Cup Round Four) 21.12.22 Nottingham Forest returned to competitive action after over five weeks without a game to win their third match in a row and progress through to the Quarter Finals of the Carabao sponsored League Cup, the first time the club have reached the last eight since…
Notts County came from a goal behind to beat Chorley and reach the fourth round of the Buildbase FA Trophy where they’ll play Maidstone United at Meadow Lane in the new year. In an entertaining round three game at Meadow Lane last night, the home side fell behind to a Connor Hall strike on 18…
Prior to December 2022, England had won only two tests in 61 years in Pakistan, but in the last twenty days, the nation has already won three more to whitewash a series and become the first touring nation ever to win 3-0 in Pakistan, a momentous achievement especially greatened by it being the first time…
Only two games across the Nottinghamshire women’s scene managed to go ahead amidst the wintry snap this past weekend, Nottingham Forest Women romping to victory in the FA Women’s National League Reserves Midlands Division, and Notts County Women atop of the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Premier Division. In the first of the two…
As with the previous weekend, non-league football both in Nottinghamshire, and across the UK as a whole, was decimated by the cold, winter snap, with our non-league scene seeing around half a dozen games played, right the way down to the Nottinghamshire Senior League Division Two. Worksop got their top-of-the-table clash on, a tight, end-to-end…
The paraphernalia associated with a World Cup has now been packed back into its Pandora’s box for another four years. What got released into the air this time round was a lot of human rights’ issues and a reminder that football has the capacity to catch the imagination of even the most cynical amongst us….
There’s been a couple of narrow, agonising defeats for Nottingham Rugby Club of late as the Championship side, currently in sixth place, fell to December defeats against Bedford Blues and Jersey Reds. That takes their losing streak to three straight at present as they, weather-permitting, travel to Ampthill on Saturday (17 December), before hosting Coventry…
So, what fight fans have expected for quite some time, finally materialised overnight as Leo Santa Cruz relinquished the WBA Super featherweight championship meaning that Nottingham fighter, ‘Leighthal’ Leigh Wood is the divisions, sole, world champion. The decision by Cruz, 38-2-1(19) means that Wood, 26-2(16) is the WBAs only world champion now, and attention, for…
As Nottingham Forest saw their Vitality Women’s FA Cup Third Round clash away to Sheffield United was postponed at the weekend, due to freezing/wintry weather conditions, Andy Cook’s Reds were in the hat for the Fourth Round draw, and with it, a sense of déjà vu emerged. The rearranged clash, with the Blades, has been…
She is the brains behind the brawn, the beating heart behind the ‘Hurricane’ fight game, whilst being so much more than that herself and the mastermind of Mar Fit PT. Mafisia Lanza, originally from Tarsia, in the Calabria region of Southern Italy, where she grew up living on a farm and took in that of…
Newark boxer, Jade Grierson, finally gets the opportunity to make her professional debut this festive season when she travels to the Magna Centre, Rotherham, to face Czech fighter, Ester Konecna, 2-19-1, over 4x2s. The show, promoted by Stefy Bull, is one that Grierson, 31, is more than delighted to be a part of, especially after…
So, here we are, coming up to Christmas remaining at the top of the Vanarama National League. To only lose one of your opening twenty-one fixtures in a season is a sign of Champions and whilst we as a collective agree to not get ahead of ourselves, this team becomes more convincing as the weekends…
Nottingham born former boxer Carl Froch who now works for Sky Sports as a pundit, has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame where he’ll be announced alongside Mexico’s Rafael Marquez and USA’s Tim Bradley as the male Class of 23 in Canasota, New York next summer. The IBHOF recognises boxers and trainers,…
I’m extremely excited by this one. Ever since the news in the summer came through that Gustavo Scarpa was joining Nottingham Forest after he finished his season in Brazil, the Palmeiras playmaker has very much been on my radar, and you can’t help but feel impressed. 31 starts seven goals and twelve assists for the…
Cast your mind back to 2008 and a young Crystal Palace Academy starlet who’d already been offered a contract by Barcelona, joins Tottenham Hotspur aged sixteen for a reported sum over £1m. A lot was expected of John Bostock, a talented midfielder with teenage England caps, but it never really went the way we expected,…
Nottingham Forest progressed to the quarter-finals of this seasons’ FA Women’s National League, League Cup at the weekend, following a come-from-behind, extra-time success, away to Stoke City. Having made four changes to his starting eleven, Head Coach Andy Cook bringing in Aja Aguirre, Becky Anderson, Charlotte Greengrass and Mackenzie Smith, the Reds, although taken to…
Worksop Town 3-2 Pontefract Collieries (NPL East Division) 03.12.2022 They’re trying, but no matter how hard opposition does try, Craig Parry’s Worksop Town Tigers just dig that little bit deeper, and grind out victory after victory, this, it was their sixteenth straight in what is becoming an enjoyable campaign at the Windsor Foodservice Stadium. They…
