Peterborough United 0-1 Nottingham Forest (EFL Championship) 23.04.22 Steve Cooper’s promotion chasers put in another, workman-like performance on Saturday afternoon when away to Peterborough United in the Sky Bet Championship. Victory, conformed by a goal shortly before the interval from Sam Surridge, maintained the Reds’ hopes of automatic promotion, whilst relegating Grant McCann’s Posh side…
South West Wales, to South West(ish) Nottingham, is a path travelled well by West Bridgford RFCs tight end prop, Owen Howells, and, although they say that, home is where the heart, his is firmly entrenched in the Nottinghamshire stronghold. Rugby though, it has been in Owen’s blood for a good fifteen years or so now,…
Durham 230 v 371/3 Nottinghamshire (County Championship Division Two) 22.04.22 *day two (of four) If Carlsberg did Fridays they would favourably put Notts in control of cricket matches so that with two days to spare they’ll be up some and more with plenty of time and wickets in hand for a Saturday slog and an…
This Saturday could be the last outing of the season for Nottingham RFC who go into the second leg of their RFU Championship Knock Out Cup match against Bedford Blues this weekend already 24 points in the match down. The Green & Whites lost their first leg game at Lady Bay by 38-14 a fortnight…
It’s been a roller-coaster of emotions for Mansfield Town this season, starting the campaign with plenty of optimism they fell to the brinks of the two relegation slots in the division before going on a remarkable record run that would have the fans not just thinking of playoffs, but automatic promotion from the third tier…
Newark Town 1-1 Retford United (Central Midlands Premier Division North) 20.04.22 Honours even, and level pegging still atop the Central Midlands League Premier Division North, as Newark Town, and Retford United, shared the spoils at the YMCA on Wednesday evening, 20 April. Nathan Arnold (Newark), and Liam Kay (Retford), would have preferred victory, and the…
Durham 230 v 50/0 Nottinghamshire (County Championship Division Two) 21.04.22 *day one (of four) It was a good day for Nottinghamshire who bowled out their hosts Durham and reduced a chaseable first innings deficit down before dusk with everything still in-tact. A bit of cloud hovers the early morning Northern skies but generally bright as…
Let’s talk about defibrillators for a while, after all, the heart is the most important part of your body. We won’t go into any statistics, any data, nothing like that, we’ll just talk about one of Nottingham’s many, unsung heroes, this being Amanda Gretton, and her fundraising activities to get defibrillators into her local grassroots…
My eyes were drawn to a video shared on Twitter last week, when after watching the goals of a comprehensive 3-0 home victory against Wolves on April 13th, 1998, just two matches prior to Nottingham Forest winning the First Division title, someone begged the question “was the Championship winning team of ‘Harry’ Bassett better than…
Nottingham based boxer Ekow ‘The Engine’ Essuman was supposed to be fighting in a fortnights time at York Hall for the defence of his IBF European, Commonwealth & BBBofC British Welterweight titles against Darren Tetley but a space has just come up, to bring the bout forward a week and now ‘the Engine’ will be…
Nottingham Panthers take on Guildford Flames in the Quarter Finals of the Elite League Playoffs with back-to-back games on Saturday and Sunday for one goal aim, to progress into the last four and the finals weekend at the Motorpoint Arena over May Bank Holiday. The Panthers who last won the Playoffs in 2016, have a…
Victory over Ashfield Rugby (27-12), in early April, where a bonus point success would see both promotion, and the Midlands 3 (East) title, made for an exciting end to a long season for Mellish Rugby Club. Having begun back in late September, with a 46-0 whitewash of hosts Belper, and embarking on a ten-game winning…
It seems with every matchday of late that something at stake is gained or lost and the latest of those jubilant successes rather than most disappointing of losses has been a momentous one for little old Blidworth Welfare who last night won promotion from the Black Dragon Badges Central Midlands League Premier Division South at…
When I first see Jim Baxter in a Forest shirt at the City Ground, I know something isn’t quite right but the sight of him still takes my breath away. I’d feasted on photos, reports and profiles of him in my football magazines and annuals for years. He’d starred at Rangers and for Scotland when…
We’ve been calling him Scotch John for the last ten years… It’s only now that he tells me his name is ‘Duncan’… Those of you who know will know, Scottish by name, Nottingham by nature, John, sorry Duncan, has been on the barrels at Trent Bridge since the days of Eddie Hemmings it seems? Things…
Ten months after the appointment of Nathan Arnold as Newark Town manager the club currently find themselves on the brink of the double, sitting top of the Step 7, Black Dragon Central Midlands Premier Division North, and into the final of the Nottinghamshire Senior Trophy. League leaders, Newark Town, are enjoying a successful season and…
Behind the scenes, irrespective of where, there is always an unsung hero, sometimes there’s more than one in fact, and one of those, at West Bridgford Rugby Club, recently attaining second place, and with it promotion from the Midlands 1 (East) Division, is their club physiotherapist, Holly Calver. To be classed as an unsung hero,…
Not many better goals have been scored at the City Ground than the left footed thunderbolt volley by Jack Colback in the 4-0 demolition last night against West Bromwich Albion, but questions on whether ‘he’ meant it? Or not? Will define whether it can ‘really’ be considered as one of the ‘greatest Nottingham Forest goals…
Nottingham Forest 4-0 West Bromwich Albion (EFL Championship) 18.04.22 Nottingham Forest took another large leap to securing playoff status this season after bouncing back from Good Friday defeat at fellow promotion rivals Luton Town to land a severe blow for the Baggies own slim hopes of making the Premier League eyeing cut. It took seventeen…
Congratulations this weekend are afforded to United Counties Division One duo (interviews to come in due course), Kimberley Miners Welfare, and Radford, the former wrapping up the title following a tough, 2-1 home win, over mid-table Harrowby United, the latter confirming a play-off spot after a hard-fought, 2-2 draw, away to Aylestone Park. At Kimberley,…
