After Team Great Britain’s thrilling shootout win against Poland, I had the chance to speak with Nottingham Panthers forward Logan Neilson. Neilson has had an incredibly successful first professional season, earning him an international call-up and an award for the best under 23 British player. I spoke to Logan about the season, Team GB’s progress,…
As the football season continues to wind down, eyes are, understandably turning towards cup finals, although more silverware was won in the women’s game this past weekend with both SJR Worksop (East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Division One North) and Arnold Eagles Flyers (Notts Girls & Ladies League Seniors One) lifting their respective titles….
Saturday afternoon in the Northern Premier League Premier Division was certainly a case of ‘Brilliant Basford’ and ‘Roaring Tigers’ as the pair concluded their respective league campaigns in style, and with a pair of clean sheets to match as well. Basford, who just recently confirmed their place in the Premier Division for next season, cruised…
Beeston Ladies are set for a third consecutive cup final. The University Boulevard based hockey team is poised to make sporting history as they prepare for their third consecutive appearance in the national cup final. The women’s first team, representing Beeston Hockey Club, is aiming to become the first-ever squad to secure three consecutive national cup…
Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester City (Premier League) 28.04.24 Forest’s record against City remains winless since their Premier League return, but like the reverse fixture, it wasn’t a sour end – and, I feel, Forest can find solice in their latest performance. The first half It started with promise. Aina broke, tried something, and it didn’t…
Team GB beat Poland at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on Saturday as Joe Maciag was there for Nottingham Sport. The two teams ending the three periods and overtime locked at one each with a shoot out win as Cam Critchlow scored the decisive goal for a 2-1 win. Period 1 – Bowns’ Brilliance The first period…
Players from far and wide – from different continents, not just countries – have strutted their stuff in Garibaldi red on the City Ground’s evergreen turf, none more so than now. The current Forest squad is collected from Ireland to the Ivory Coast, Nigeria to New Zealand, from South America’s Brazil and Argentina to Senegal…
Now that the EIHL season has wrapped up, we can turn our attention to the upcoming GB games. As an ice hockey fan in the UK, the GB games are always a great spectacle, and the growth of the national team over recent years has been staggering. I have fond memories of attending the World…
There may have been agonising defeats in the FA Women’s National League for both Nottingham Forest and Notts County on Sunday, but further down the women’s football pyramid, there was joy for several of the Nottinghamshire clubs, especially in Division One of the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League. Division One Central witnessed the continued…
The games are coming thick and fast as the Nottinghamshire non-league scene crashes towards its eventual conclusion, and it was good news for the county’s clubs at the top of their game, favourable results going the way of Worksop Town and Basford United in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, and to Carlton Town in…
From Nottinghamshire non-league football to the sun-kissed pitches of Australia, Michael Leslie has travelled the globe in pursuit of his footballing dreams. Despite international recognition, the 35-year-old’s heart has remained in the East Midlands. As a Youth Development Coach at Nottingham Forest, he has come full circle, including returning to the place his career began…
‘Discombobulating’ takes a while to say and even longer to write but it’s a perfect word to describe the current ‘Points Docking In The Premiership’ saga. How long is that set to continue? How many new characters (ie clubs) will be sucked into its story? If Forest and Everton have been taking a leading role,…
No sooner as one heads to its conclusion, then other sports begin in earnest, with the Owzat-Cricket Nottinghamshire Premier League starting this coming weekend (20 April), games taking place across both their Premier League and Division Two, with the draw for the opening two round of the NPL T20 competition having also been made. Last…
Mansfield Town 2-1 Accrington Stanley (16.04.2024) EFL League Two At the fourth attempt in recent years, the Stags have been promoted, yes promoted, to the third tier of English football, for the first time since appearing in the old Second Division, in 2002-03. A lot has changed in Mansfield in the past two decades, back…
Congratulations goes to two individuals with Nottingham connections as Newcastle United won the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier Division title, with an emphatic 10-0 win over Huddersfield Town, at the weekend (braces from Emma Kelly, Bethany Lumsden, and Katie Barker). Manager Becky Langley, and assistant manager Andy Cook, both have connections to the region…
The football may nearly be over-and-done with, in fact some clubs and leagues have already wrapped up their respective season and preparing for the upcoming play-offs, but there’s still a bit to be played for. In Nottinghamshire, that is still the case with several clubs, although Worksop Town’s hopes of making the Northern Premier League…
MK Dons 1-4 Mansfield Town (13.04.24) EFL League Two The title may be gone, congratulations to Stockport County or Wrexham, but automatic promotion for EFL League Two Nigel Clough’s often-free-scoring Stags is still, very much on the cards, and that was helped in their huge, come-from-behind win, away to fellow promotion hopefuls, MK Dons, at…
Coming agonisingly close to promotion last time around, Nottingham’s American Football roster, the Nottingham Caesars, are more than ready to go again, and the aim is the same, take the final step into the promised land. An undefeated regular season in 2023 would see the Caesars (10-0; 11-1 overall) win their sixth, divisional title, before…
Nottingham Forest 2-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Premier League) 13.04.24 In a “decent performance” against Wolves under the sun at the City Ground, Forest can be content with a point, but rue mistakes made in indecision in front of goal, and failing to be clinical when needed most. Two goals scored, but a couple/few goals potentially missed…
Despite getting the win they needed on Sunday, the results didn’t go the way of the Panthers, and unfortunately, they would finish this EIHL season in 9th place and miss out on playoffs. Although it wasn’t to be for the Panthers, I think I speak for every fan when I say how incredibly proud I…
