Into the deep end, the business end of the season in the Owzat-Cricket Nottinghamshire Premier League, and it’s still tight at the top of their Premier Division, just eight points splitting the top three sides of Kimberley Institute CC, Cuckney CC, and defending champions, Cavaliers & Carrington CC. The new top two both collected victories…
There’s three Nottinghamshire clubs in the Northern Counties East League Division One this season, Ryan Hindley’s Retford United having been promoted following their Central Midlands North success last time around to join neighbours Retford, and Ollerton Town. Following a plethora of new signings, the Badgers made their NCEL One bow, with a home fixture, against…
The non-league season was up-and-running again this past weekend and what a way to kick things off, with the United Counties League Groundhop weekend, including several, Nottinghamshire clubs. Seven games took place over this past weekend, Friday-Sunday (28-30 July), and there was high attendances, and plenty of goals, ‘hoppers’ getting more than their money’s worth…
On Saturday 29th July 2023, Stuart Broad announced his retirement from cricket, at stumps, on day three of the fifth Ashes test, partway through a ninth wicket stand with his old side-kick and mate James Anderson still besides him at the crease, midst a vital match at the Oval, one which England felt they could…
Nobody has written more words over the last three years than our Senior Correspondent Peter Mann. What started with an article on golf, about Oakmere Park near Oxton, hosting the PGA Assistant’s Championship in 2020, continued into football, women’s football in particular, which Peter is a huge advocate of, the non-league game where he’s interviewed…
Looking over your shoulder in the County Championship adds nervousness and tension to games especially when you are playing one of those teams below you in the table. Notts thankfully now have a cushion on Kent in one of two relegation places after a 321 run win at Trent Bridge but it didn’t always look…
Fred Mann, a defender, Ken Mann, a winger, and Peter Mann, a centre half-forward, and with club nicknames like the Redlegs and the Bombers, the Sharks and the Bulldogs, and an unlikely connection throughout the history of Australian Rules Football, with the East Midlands city of, Nottingham, England. At the start of May, 1878, a…
NFC One South champions, play-offs bound, undefeated, it’s been an incredible season so far for Vanden Warner and the Nottingham Caesars – but they’re not done yet, far from it. For the first time since 1995, and only the second time in their history, the Caesars have completed an undefeated, regular season; this time around,…
Nottingham Forest have landed their first two signings of the summer in ex-Chelsea full back Ola Aina from Italian side Torino on a free and Swedish international Anthony Elanga from Manchester United, the club said to have paid £15m for the wide attackers signature. Both players arrived with the rest of the team for training…
What do football supporters do all summer? Flick through TikTok, tittle-tattle and back-page gossip, I suppose, but it hardly fills the gap left by the game’s close-season. So it’s out with the bikes and maps and a couple of mates finding a week to spare and we’re set for the first leg of a well-known…
One more match stands in the way of Notts County and their Football League return as a last pre-season game is scheduled at Shrewsbury Town on Saturday before the season proper starts, away at Sutton United at Gander Green Lane on Saturday 5th August. Notts will visit the Shrews this weekend with one last time…
As far as most people are obviously aware, Nottingham Forest are blessed to possess a set of the greatest fans in the English games. Equipped with passionate vocality in and out of the stands, the love and enthusiasm for our great club resonates through the leagues over and over again, be it through the dark…
There’s mixed feelings around Nottingham Forest Women of late, and, with the new season just around the corner, they kick-off at home to Stourbridge on 20 August, The Reds are getting their house back into order. Last season’s double winners, Nottingham Forest lifted both the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier title, and the League…
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club have signed young Worcestershire batter Jack Haynes on a three year deal from the start of the 2024 season. The 22-year-old has a first class average of 34.91 with an even better List A ave at 42.63 and T20 batting figures at 23.06. Worcester born Haynes, son of former professional cricketer…
English Football’s first million-pound-man, Trevor Francis, has sadly passed away aged 69 after a heart attack suffered at his home in Marbella, Spain, on Monday morning. The former Nottingham Forest forward who scored the goal that won the European Cup against Malmo in 1979 will be fondly remembered as not just a football first, but…
Nottingham Forest are expected to oversee a large number of outgoings this summer, after a large influx of signings last season – many of the signings have gone on to see first-team football, of some form, while others have left on loan and could leave permanently in the coming weeks, with one shock name now…
Nottingham woke up to the news this morning that their English-born, Canadian forward, Mike Hammond, who spent last season with the Nottingham Panthers, had died in a single-vehicle RTC in British Columbia, Canada, on the night of Wednesday 19 July. Hammond, who was 33-years-old, spent his formative ice years in Canada (2006-16), came to the…
Nat Sciver-Brunt and Lewis Gregory have been named as the captains of Trent Rockets’ women’s and men’s sides respectively, with The Hundred now just two weeks away. Sciver-Brunt, who has previously captained both England and Trent Rockets, is seeking to guide her side to the final of the competition having finished third in last year’s…
It’s no secret that Nottingham Forest tend to be linked with incredible amounts of players during a transfer window – last season’s huge spending & influx of players probably encouraged this more. This Summer however, Nottingham Forest fans can expect a different strategy, one of shrewd business, and focusing on “quality over quantity” – and…
Notts County 0-1 Nottingham Forest (Friendly) 15.07.23 Above and beyond the city of Nottingham came together yesterday as a friendly match between Notts County and Nottingham Forest at Meadow Lane paid respect to those that lost their lives in the Nottingham Attacks, as students Grace Kelly Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Forest fan Ian Coates were…
