As the gates clunk shut at grounds around the country to signal the end of May and another football season, players will head off for well-earned rests to every popular destination you’d find in a travel agent. Aside from participation in the FA Cup and European finals, teams are now left free to lick their…
Notts Outlaws 174/4-182/6 Yorkshire Vikings (T20 Blast North Group) 30.05.23 It’s two wins and two defeats from the first four games of the T20 Blast season for Nottinghamshire who couldn’t follow up a win at Durham on Bank Holiday Monday as they were beaten by eight runs against Yorkshire Vikings at Trent Bridge on Tuesday…
As starts to a season go, that enjoyed by Vanden Warner’s Nottingham Caesars in the current, British American Football Association (BAFA) NFC1 South campaign, is one to excite Nottingham, and the East Midlands as a whole. Albeit beginning a little later than other sides, the Caesars never let that fact distract them from the job…
Yorkshire League Division One, four games in for a couple of clubs, and it’s already becoming a season of first for the Nottingham Outlaws Rugby League outfit, despite having lost their opening two matches. An opening day, 46-10 humping at home to Hull Wyke, was sharp followed by a narrow, 28-24 loss against hosts, Cutsyke…
A Party at Palace, Cooper’s Reds have made history once again. They said it couldn’t be done. They said it won’t happen. They said he [Cooper] was out the door by the next morning. They didn’t believe – but Cooper did, the team did, and the fans did – Nottingham Forest’s survival success story is…
The Owzat Nottinghamshire Premier League is very much up-and-running, with sides having played half-a-dozen matches thus far in the Premier League, Cavaliers and Carrington CC (36pts) the early pace-setters with four wins from their opening outings. Cuckney CC are level with Cavaliers (36 pts), with Kimberley Institute CC (34pts) just two behind the early pace-setters;…
The first new signing of the summer transfer window, will soon be walking through the doors of Mansfield Town’s One Call Stadium, when having also announced a contract extension for Stephen Quinn, and the signing of ex-Nottingham Forest loanee Will Swann, on a permanent deal, the Stags also brought in left-back, Nottingham-born Calum Macdonald. Having…
Nottingham born boxer Leigh Wood is WBA Featherweight Champion of the world, again, after beating Mauricio Lara in his rematch fight in Manchester on Saturday night. Mexican Lara stopped Wood in the seventh round in Nottingham three months ago but the 34-year-old wasted little time in putting that record straight, dominating a fight that went…
Notts Outlaws 182/6-178/6 Derbyshire Falcons (T20 Blast North Group) 26.05.23 What more could you ask for? A scorching Friday night, a packed Trent Bridge, a win for Nottinghamshire against their East Midlands rivals, a perfect start to the Vitality Blast campaign for the Outlaws. It was new overseas signing Shaheen Afridi who had the pleasure…
Renan Lodi: What is his future, and what does he offer to Nottingham Forest? Following a swirl of rumours back in the summer, Renan Lodi joined Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan move from Atletico Madrid, where he featured a total of 84 times over three campaigns, under one of the most defensively astute managers…
As the final whistle – finally – blew (how long can nine minutes of added time feel? Answer: infinity!) scenes of ecstasy filled the City Ground stands and our TV screens. On a balmy Saturday evening Forest secured Premiership status in their last home game of the season. Fans and players alike let loose an…
Steve Cooper’s men defy the doubts once again – the club is revitalised, Forest are staying up! The last weekend, as of when this is being written, has been perhaps one of the most nerve-wracking but elating period’s of time for Nottingham Forest fans – the thought of playing one of this seasons best sides,…
Several Nottinghamshire clubs were in action this weekend (20 & 21 May) as the women’s season came to its conclusion. It would be a weekend that would see heartbreak for Nottingham Forest, and Arnold Eagles, mixed fortunes for Nottingham Trent University, and a cup win for Newark Town, with four competitions reaching their dramatic endings….
A game of two halves, a season of two halves, it’s something which can be attributed to Neil Matthews and his Arnold Eagles side as they prepare for what, on paper at least, is a tough, East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League, League Cup final. In the league, Arnold have struggled, badly, finishing bottom of…
Despite losing to Mansfield Town in the League Cup, it’s been a reasonably decent season on the field for Emma Dennis and her Nottingham Trent University charges. A fourth place finish in the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Division One Central, and opposition for Loughborough Foxes Vixens in the Plate final, is just reward…
Nottingham Forest and Watford go at it again this Saturday afternoon, in the play-off for a place in next season’s Barclays Women’s Championship. The two sides, having won their respective (Northern and Southern Premier) championships, will face each other in what is the last of the National League play-off games, won last season by Southampton…
As Cedwyn Scott stood there in the North London sunshine, the weight of the world’s oldest professional football club rested on his shoulders. Two penalty saves from loan goalkeeper Archie Mair, first from DJ Oldaker then Jeff King, followed by an agonising chip against the crossbar from John Bostock, had presented the 24-year-old Geordie with…
Retford manager, Chris Woodhead, is preparing to go again when the 2023/24 campaign kicks off, his Choughs side narrowly missing out on a spot in the play-offs last time around. Just ten points separated that of Staveley Miners Welfare, in fifth place (the last play-off position), and tenth place, Selby Town, Retford one of several…
Promotion, relegation, reprieves, and lateral movements, has been the name of the game for those powers-that-be at the Football Association over the past few weeks, they sorting out all those comings, and goings, in the non-league system. As Notts County were promoted, via the play-offs, to EFL League Two, this past weekend, it now means…
Nottingham Forest will face Watford for the second time in a matter of weeks this coming Saturday when, at the Stadium MK, the two will collide for a place in next season’s Barclays Women’s Championship, so the Nottingham Sport caught up with Forest defender and centurion, Georgia Hewitt, for a chat. It has been a…
