Little did I know, when I began writing this column back in March, that I’d be penning a line with ‘Forest’ and ‘Premiership’ in the same sentence! And that play-off win against Huddersfield is enough to have any Reds supporter burst into song. They were already in fine voice when colonising Wembley on Sunday with…
Notts County have signed defender Tobi Adebayo-Rowling from Ebbsfleet United as Head Coach Michael Doyle leaves to join Ian Burchnall at Forest Green Rovers. The club yesterday signed the right sided Adebayo-Rowling, a long term target and a player that had expressed interest from several football league clubs. A Notts County statement saying “Tobi has…
Notts Outlaws A-A Northamptonshire Steelbacks (T20 Blast North Group) 30.05.22 Persistent showers caused the abandonment of Nottinghamshire Outlaw’s latest twenty20 match against Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Trent Bridge yesterday. The county were on 140 for 6 after 18 overs when the rain came to stop play, giving both sides a point each. The Outlaws came into…
Nottingham Forest are dreamers. But the line is meant to stop there. Within the confines of an East Midlands city lies a ground so steeped in history, so adorned with medals and trophies and stories of legend, and yet one so far removed from present day glory and achievement. Always the nearly team, and failing…
Unstoppable Cuckney CC are the only side remaining in this seasons’ Owzat-Cricket Nottinghamshire Premier League, they registering their sixth, successive victory, on Saturday afternoon, seeing off joint-bottom Gedling & Sherwood CC in a comprehensive, seven wicket win. Victory for Cuckney sees them hold an eight point advantage on second place Cavaliers & Carrington, and now…
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Huddersfield Town (EFL Championship Playoff Final) 29.05.22 Destination, Premier League. Not since the late nineties have Nottingham Forest been able to say that they were a top flight side, until now that is. Following a season that started off in disastrous fashion, they were relegation favourites for most of the early part…
Mansfield Town 0-3 Port Vale (EFL League Two Playoff Final) 28.05.22 Promotion bid, over, for this season at least, as Nigel Clough’s Mansfield Town fell at the final hurdle on Saturday evening, crashing to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Port Vale in the Sky Bet League Two Play-Off final. Over 37,000 supporters made…
It may well be thirty years since Nottingham Forest last appeared at Wembley, but should they lift the Championship play-off trophy it will be their third piece of silverware in a week. Whilst Steve Cooper and his troops have been busy preparing for a shot at the Premier league the NFFC walking football teams have…
Notts Outlaws 168/6-164/9 Worcestershire Rapids (T20 Blast North Group) 27.05.22 An assured batting performance by the Notts Outlaws helped them to a fine four-wicket victory over the Worcestershire Rapids with two balls to spare, in their opening twenty20 Vitality Blast game of the season. Put into bat, Ed Pollock struck four, six, and six off…
Notts County Head Coach Ian Burchnall has left the club to join in charge of recently promoted League One side Forest Green Rovers. The Nailsworth based side from Gloucestershire recently lost their Manager Rob Edwards to Watford after gaining promotion from League Two finishing as runners up and have acted quickly in replacing the former…
Nottingham Forest take on Huddersfield Town this weekend in the most lucrative game of football on the planet, the difference in winning and losing, said to be more than £170m over the next three seasons after future revenues are considered, for breaking into the Premier League. For Nottingham Forest fans, it is about more than…
Wembley Stadium holds mixed emotions for Mansfield Town fans who’ll be commuting south in their thousands this weekend ahead of the League Two playoff final against Port Vale. Those old enough to remember will still talk of their joys in 1987, George Foster lifting the Freight Rover Trophy after a dramatic penalty shootout win against…
An end of season gathering yesterday held a few laughs and smiles in the aftermath of a disappointing night that ended the campaign in late playoff defeat against Grimsby Town on Monday. Ruben Rodrigues, the clubs top goalscorer, in a Kyle Cameron emblazoned tropical shirt, wished his good byes to his team-mates but only to…
Joe Hardstaff was described as one of the most stylish and elegant batsman of his era. Another batsman to have a long career with Nottinghamshire, 25 years, he excelled at both domestic and international cricket, having an average well over 40 in both forms of cricket. He competed for a whole host of teams, with…
They wanted to win something this season, and, after their exit from the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Cup competition saw them ‘demoted’ to the Plate, Andi Bell and her Mansfield Town Ladies charges, they made it their mission to achieve nothing less, that lift it. That is exactly what they did, defeating Rotherham…
Crash, bang, wallop!…..Nottinghamshire begin their campaign in the Twenty20 competition this Friday with a day-night match against Worcestershire at Trent Bridge. Running from May to mid-July, the Vitality Blast sees Notts in the North Group with eight other teams. Previous winners in 2017 and 2020, no side in the country has won more T20 games…
It’s late on a Friday evening in March when I turn off the A1 for Nottingham and lose control of my car. A spin, a bump up the curb and I come to a stop. Snow has been with me from Cambridge – where I live and stayed at work too long – and it’s…
The first half (or as near as it can be) for Nottingham’s pro cyclist, James Shaw, has been one of very mixed, emotions, feelings, that’s for sure. Late last year it was announced that he’d be joining the EF Education Pro Cycling ahead of the 2022 season, something which he was, understandably, very excited about,…
Notts County 1-2 Grimsby Town *aet (National League Playoff Round One) 23.05.22 It was a long agonising night of drama and disappointment with tension followed by terror at Meadow Lane as Notts suffered a late and horrible defeat after it looked after 95 minutes into the match that they would be the ones going through….
That’s five wins, from their opening five matches, for both Cuckney CC and Papplewick & Linby CC, in the Owzat-Cricket Nottinghamshire Premier League, following the weekends’ matches, but the game between Hucknall CC, in their win against hosts Notts & Arnold CC, was something, different. A low-scoring game, it was, very much so, the two…
