It was a tough outing for Nottingham Rugby, in the Championship, this past weekend, as they very much suffered the Bedford Blues, despite taking an early lead when on the road. Away at Bedford, Nottingham led as early as the seventh minute when Ellis Mee crossed for a five point lead, from then on though,…
Last season, 2022-23, was an enjoyable one for supports, players and staff alike at both Nottingham Forest and Notts County, Nottingham’s two, flagship women’s sides having silver-laden campaigns. In the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier Division, Forest, then under the guidance of Andy Cook and led by the goals of Charlotte Greengrass, to a…
A handful of games in both the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League, and the Nottinghamshire Girls & Ladies League, managed to beat the continuing weather predicaments this past weekend with Basford United moving level on points with Mansfield Town in the East Midlands Premier. Basford led after fifteen minutes of their game away to…
Non-league football returned across Nottinghamshire on Saturday with goals aplenty, along with wins for Worksop Town and Carlton Town in the Northern Premier League, as well as that of Sherwood Colliery, Clipstone, Radford and Dunkirk et al, in the United Counties League. Arnold Town continued their recent upsurge in form in the Central Midlands Alliance,…
Crawley Town 1-3 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 16.12.2023 Davis Keillor-Dunn’s twelfth goal of a productive, first half of the season, alongside goals from Baily Cargill and George Maris, ensured Nigel Clough’s Stags returned from their League Two trip to West Sussex with all three points on Saturday afternoon. Hosts Crawley Town, sitting in mid-table,…
Want to know about the Brazilian captain at the forefront of Forest’s January transfer strategy? The average age of Nottingham Forest’s defence that started last weekend was 26; age doesn’t seem a major issue from this statistic, but the leaders within the defensive group are aging: Boly & Felipe both in their mid-thirties nearly, the…
Nottingham Hospitals Charity has had some major weight thrown behind their ‘Big Appeal’ campaign (initially launched in 2016, re-launched September 2023), in the shape of local Championship rugby club, Nottingham RFU. The players and staff over at Lady Bay helped announce the partnership at the start of this month, the new, corporate partnership having been…
Forest’s festive goodwill has come far too early this season. Gifting goals to opponents does not sit well with the prime objective in a football match: to win. Such generosity will also lose you more than games; namely, loss of confidence at an individual and team level. That makes Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Wolves a…
Carly Davies has, thus far at least, led her Nottingham Forest side into the Fourth Round of this season’s Adobe Women’s FA Cup following a battling win at home to Boldmere St Michaels on Sunday afternoon. The hosts took an early lead when Natalie Johnson fired home her fifth of the season, striking the visitors…
Talk about weather-affected, the majority of Nottinghamshire’s non-league scene was wiped out this past weekend and, but for a handful of games in the Nottinghamshire Senior League, there wasn’t much joy high up the pyramid. Just four games were played in the upper echelons with Basford losing in the Northern Premier League, Retford falling on…
Points shared at Molineux; enough to save Cooper’s job? Nottingham Forest are in a relegation battle, and every point is crucial – today earning themselves another with a decent draw against Wolves. Despite a decent performance, is “decent” enough to secure Cooper’s fate, and stay as manager of the club? The First Half: Forest started…
Stoke City 1-5 Nottingham Forest (FA Women’s National League North) 03.12.23 Carly Davies’ Nottingham Forest side kept up the pressure on the top two in the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier on Sunday afternoon, easing to a comfortable, 5-1 win, away to Stoke City. Sitting third in the table, victory for the Reds sees…
But a handful of games across the county survived the inclement weather conditions in the rugby this past weekend, Championship high-fliers, Nottingham, jumping up to second, for 24 hours at least, with another, twelve point come-from-behind success. Hosting divisional newcomers, Cambridge, under Lady Bay’s ‘Friday Night Lights,’ Craig Hammond’s side found themselves twelve down inside…
A weekend that was again hampered by the weather, also saw the announcement of the unfortunate passing of one of Nottinghamshire’s non-league players, Sandiacre Town’s Kial Thurman, with their Nottinghamshire Senior League side, AFC Sandiacre, Town dedicating their 1-0 win at East Leake Robins, to him. Thurman, who’d played three times for Sandiacre this season,…
Toffee’s taste sweet victory, as Reds left out in the cold… A hopeful Nottingham Forest soon became distraught, as Cooper’s Reds lose once again at home, in a game that was certainly not kind on the eye – a game in which, really, seemed a battle between relegation candidates, based on the performance. The First…
Historical documents record, over hundreds of years, regular invasions by armies from Scotland into England, ‘The Auld Enemy’. The 17th century was particularly busy until The Acts Of Union brought the two nations together in 1707. That didn’t stop Bonny Prince Charlie laying claim to the throne. Gathering support, as part of the Jacobite rebellion…
The homecoming of David McGoldrick’s that was dreamt of but one we never anticipated happening. Sometimes even now it still does not feel real when you see him ahead of you in Notts County colours on the pitch at Meadow Lane Stadium as he is still the player he appeared to be in those years…
As victories go, that which came the way of Nottingham RFC, under the Friday Night Lights away at Hartpury University, was a special one indeed. It was to be the first time in which the Archers had won at Hartpury, at the sixth time of asking, and they did so in style as well. Having…
Nottingham Forest progressed to the Third Round of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup at the weekend, following a 3-2 home win over Division One Midlands side, Sporting Khalsa; their reward being a home tie against Boldmere St. Michaels. Following a handful of changes to the Reds’ normal, league starting eleven, Aja Aguirre stepping between the…
There was the usual, mixed fortunes, across the Nottinghamshire non-league scene this past weekend as Basford drew, Worksop and Carlton both suffered defeat in the Northern Premier League, whilst Sherwood Colliery marched on in the United Counties League. In the NPL, Remaye Campbell’s goal just after the hour mark saw Basford United earn a point…
