Nottingham Forest Women reached the third round of this seasons Vitality Women’s FA Cup where they’ll play Barclays Women’s Championship side, Sheffield United (away, 11 December) following an eventually comfortable, 5-1 win, away to Shropshire side, Wem Town. Level at the break, the hosts equalising on the stroke of half-time after the visiting Reds had…
Worksop Town’s winning streak in the Northern Premier League East Division continued on Saturday afternoon when coming from behind away to Ossett United. Goalless at the break, the hosts led though Bradley Grayson within ten minutes of the restart, the visiting Tigers battling away before snatching the points with two goals in the closing stages….
Newark Town 3-2 Radford (United Counties League Division One) 26.11.22 A fun fact to begin with, when googling the distance between these two grounds, for some reason, the first option was the near 483 mile, seven hour travel between Newark, New Jersey, and Radford, Virginia – now that’s a (near thousand mile) round trip. Fortunately,…
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Mansfield Town (FA Cup Round Two) 26.11.22 Having reached the Third Round of the FA Cup in each of the last two seasons, and four times in the past decade, Nigel Clough’s Stags slipped up when at Hillsborough on Saturday afternoon, falling to a late brace from Owls substitute, Michael Smith, League…
Evening All, Saturday 19th November my monthly residency visit to Cromwell Lakes. Arriving at a very busy lake. On arrival only three pegs available for choice. After a brew and a natter with the boss Nathan, peg 18 it was. Probably my favourite peg on the lake with my Mirror PB of 37.8lb coming from…
Worksop Town are top of the league after a thumping 4-0 win at Tadcaster Albion in the Northern Premier East Division last night. The Tigers led from the front after netting their first goal inside two minutes through James Hanson who tapped in from close range after good work by Jay Rollins down the right….
Nottingham Panthers have parted company with Head Coach Gary Graham after a poor start to the Elite League season, where the team are sixth place in the standings having won just four games and lost nine of their fifteen played. American born Graham joined in the summer from the USHL with big intentions but results…
This past Sunday saw the opening round of the County Cup in Nottinghamshire and, although a couple of sides received walkovers, the victories, they were there for all to see. Nottingham Forest Reserves hit thirteen, Sherwood seven, Mansfield Town six, and Mansfield Hosiery Mills five, as they all reached the next round. In Mansfield, and…
Newark & Sherwood United 4-0 Pinchbeck United (United Counties League Premier Division North) 19.11.2022 Player-manager, Jonathan D’Laryea, is two-from-two as manager of United Counties Premier North high-fliers, Newark & Sherwood United, after The Highwaymen followed up their FA Vase win over Blackstones, with a comfortable, 4-0 win, over Pinchbeck United. The visitors, in the bottom…
Another point in the bag for Basford United at the weekend, in the Pitching In Southern League Premier Division Central, following a battling draw with visitors Rushall Olympic. Both clubs harbour promotion aspirations and are both on the verge of the play-offs, with leaders Tamworth topping the able, ten points better off than the Notts…
It was a frustrating day for Notts County who played out a goalless draw with Yeovil in front of a record crowd at Meadow Lane whilst for Mansfield, it was an afternoon to forget in Harrogate. The Magpies slip back down to second in the table as they couldn’t open the Glovers door at a…
Those over at The Stag have had a mixed week indeed, both on, and off the field of play. Having suffered a narrow, battling defeat, the previous week, against the league leaders Loughborough Students, it was fast followed by a battling draw when away to second-placed Melton Town last time out. We say last time…
It’s been a frustrating start to the season so far for Nottingham Wildcats who sit comfortably in mid table of the WBBL having won two and lost two of their Women’s British Basketball League games whilst the side last weekend crashed to defeat against Leicester Riders in the second round of the WBBL Cup. This…
In November 2021, Notts County Football Club broke the Vanarama National League attendance record with an incredible 12,843 supporters in attendance. Now, in November 2022, the club prepares for 16,500 supporters inside Meadow Lane to clear their previous record attendance by almost 4,000. However, as we are all aware, these times seemed a very, very…
The official auctioning partner of the Royal British Legion, MatchWornShirt, is currently putting under the hammer the worn and signed shirts of the Nottingham Forest players from their recent game against Crystal Palace, which of course was won by the Reds 1-0 at the City Ground thanks to a goal by Morgan Gibbs White, who’s…
Mansfield Town have bolstered their squad with the addition of left back Lewis Page who joins on an initial one-month contract. The former West Ham United youngster is now 26 and was without a club after leaving Harrogate Town in the summer, he’ll be utilised by the Stags potentially as a replacement for the injured…
It is by now no secret that the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar starts on Sunday with the host nation in action against Ecuador in the first of 64 matches involving 32 of the elite football nations on the planet. England and Wales will be there, contesting in the same group B alongside USA…
‘The lamps are going out all over Europe,’ said British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in August 1914, on the eve of the United Kingdom’s entry into the First World War. Over years, the most powerful nations on earth had drifted towards that conflagration. I’m not going to follow that opening with a piece on…
It was always going to be the answer to an obvious question asked, ‘let’s just see where we are by the time the World Cup starts’… The English Premier League season split into two, for the first time ‘deliberately’ since it began in 1992, Nottingham Forest returning to the top tier for the first time…
It wasn’t quite the redemption innings he’d have hoped for but nonetheless the inclusion of maverick batter Alex Hales was fully justified by Sunday lunchtime gone as the returning Nottinghamshire player helped England to win the ICC T20 World Cup after three years of international exodus. After bowling out Pakistan in the final for just…
