Aside from colour, what significantly distinguished Forest’s shirt-front from every other team in the Premiership until September? That’s right: no advertising emblazoned across the front. And the most frequently promoted type of business? Gambling of course! Now nine of twenty clubs in the league currently thrust out their collective chests with betting brands. Since concluding…
It has been a season which began in September, with Championship clubs having been invited to take part in the new-look, Premiership Cup, and with it, a minimum of five extra games on the playing calendar. They were games which included trips to Gloucester and Saracens, and the visit of Harlequins to Lady Bay, in…
Can a first defeat of the season, at home to League One outfit Port Vale, be classed as a negative after what Nigel Clough’s Mansfield Town side has produced this season? On the night, yes, the majority of fans in the One Call Stadium, an expectant 7,432 would have left disappointed following a 1-0 defeat…
