Carly Davies’ Nottingham Forest side stretched their unbeaten, Grange Park home record this season to ten-wins-from-ten following a battling, 2-1 win, over visiting Burnley in the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier. It was a victory that sees the Reds move up to second in the table, and just four points behind leaders Newcastle United;…
What is Forest’s transfer strategy in the later stages of the transfer window? The end of the Winter transfer window is soon drawing to a close, and Nottingham Forest are yet to make a signing – an unfamiliar concept when looking at recent transfer windows. However the reason for this isn’t because there is no…
In the Northern Premier League, Basford United came back to earn a 2-2 draw at home to Warrington Rylands, whilst Worksop Town fell to a 2-1 loss at Marine, in the Premier Division, whilst in the East, Carlton Town were held to a goalless draw when at Stocksbridge Park Steels. It was Prince’s day as…
With such famous professional sporting teams as Nottingham Forest Football Club, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, and Notts County FC, there have been numerous grounds and stadiums used throughout the years by these sides, some of which are regular now and known worldwide as monuments of sporting prestige and valour. We take a look at some…
Nottingham Panthers 2-3 Sheffield Steelers (Elite League) 27.01.23 A quick turnaround for the Panthers from Wednesday night’s 6-3 Loss to Glasgow Clan as they face league leader’s Sheffield Steelers in what is always a good game of ice hockey. Panthers remain unchanged from Wednesday except Rok Stojanovic takes the crease from Mike Robinson. Sheffield misses forward…
The 2023/24 season has been unprecedented for all the wrong reasons. The death of Adam Johnson rocked the hockey world and the city of Nottingham. This team of young ice hockey players has endured more than any other group in the world and the fact we, in Nottingham, still have a team to watch, support…
Both snooker and darts have lit up the start of the sporting year with record wins for Ronnie O’Sullivan and an emerging talent in 16-year-old Luke Littler with both superstars of their genres gripping the nation in recent finals. Both sports actually have long connection back to the city of Nottingham with the Heart of…
Three goalless draws, eight clubs failing to register a goal, and a second consecutive goalless game involving Mansfield Town, it was certainly an interesting weekend of action in Nottinghamshire’s women’s football scene – on the plus side, there was to be a he win in the North East for Nottingham Forest, and a first league…
Ryan Hindley’s Retford United continue to challenge at the top end of the Northern Counties East Division One, the Badgers continuing to push for what would be a second successive promotion. This past weekend, at home to lowly Athersley Recreation, the hosts were in devastating, first half form, an opening forty-five which saw them register…
Only Half A Yard. Furious. Incandescent. Fulminating. Gobsmacked. Foaming at the mouth. Ah, that’s it! Brentford’s first – and equalising – goal against Forest on Saturday evening was something special for several reasons, leaving me, figuratively, foaming at the mouth. It was the worst example by the Reds of making a defensive wall against a…
Brentford 3-2 Nottingham Forest (Premier League) 20.01.24 Brentford’s clinical acumen matched with Forest’s defensive mistakes leads the Reds to end good recent Premier League form, and give the Bees their first win in some time. The first half couldn’t have been more fantastic to start with, as Danilo unleashed his inner Paulo Di Canio, flicks…
Ilkeston Town 4-1 Basford United (Northern Premier League) 20.01.24 Less than six miles separates Basford with Derbyshire neighbours Ilkeston, but heavy defeat in the Pitching In Premier Division has former Robin, James Jepson the United Manager and his side now a massive fourteen points below their ‘nearest’ league rivals locally, hovering dangerously above the drop…
Nottingham Forest travel to the capital on Saturday where they will face 16th place Brentford at the Brentford Community Stadium. Each team goes into this game as the foil of the other in terms of form with Nottingham Forest winning 3 of their last 5, only losing to Bournemouth amidst an unfortunate VAR error. Whereas…
Notts County have a new Head Coach in Stuart Maynard, the man who’s part-time side Wealdstone sat thirteenth in the National League table, the Stones however having built up quite a reputation under his stewardship of playing football ‘the right way’ and the Magpies owners see him as a perfect replacement following Luke Williams departure…
A few weeks back, Blackpool Tower was reported to be on fire. When emergency services responded, they realised it was a case of mistaken identity. What had been taken to be flames fanning around the structure turned out to be orange netting caught up in it, blowing around in the wind. Perhaps it was an…
Nuno’s FFP mentality should be echoed by Forest fans, despite looming verdict. In a recent press conference, Forest boss Nuno Espírito Santo stated that he has urged focus amongst his squad, despite news of charges relating to a breach of Profitability & Sustainability Regulations by the club. And while natural to worry, Forest fans should…
Nottingham Forest have been charged with breaching the Premier League profitability and sustainability regulations and will now be sent to an independent regulator. What have Forest done? In a short and hopefully less confusing description, Forest have been charged for having losses above the thresholds that cover 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2022/23. Over these three seasons,…
Whilst Nottingham didn’t play last weekend due to their pitch at Lady Bay recovering from flood damage, victories for both Paviors and West Bridgford, in the Regional 2 Midlands North division, keeps them firmly in the top five, with Pavs sitting third, ten points behind leaders Long Eaton, who were beaten at home by the…
Nottingham Forest reached the fifth round of the Women’s FA Cup for the first time in over decade at the weekend following a 6-1 demolition of hosts Plymouth Argyle. Their reward for victory will be a home tie with Everton, to be played on the weekend of 10-11 February, Carly Davies’ side no doubt itching…
Carlton Town collected their fourth win in six on Saturday afternoon to move level on points with third place Belper Town, with two games in hand, and a point behind second place Hebburn Town, with a game in hand, following a hard-fought, 2-1 win, at home to bottom club, Winterton Rangers. Goalless at the break,…
