Last season, in the Northern Counties East League Division One, Ryan Hindley’s Retford United certainly had the upper hand on neighbours Retford, defeating them 6-1 at Cannon Park in early September, then 4-1 in the reverse fixture, on Boxing Day. Fast forward twelve months, to Boxing Day this season, and the pair collide again, but…
There were mixed fortunes for the handful of Nottinghamshire clubs in action in the Central Midlands Alliance this past weekend, one which saw victories for Blidworth Welfare, and Ashland Rovers, and a point picked up for each of Worksop Town Reserves, Linby Colliery Welfare Reserves, and Southwell City Development, the latter two sharing six goals,…
The top two sides in the Euro Soccer Nottinghamshire Senior League Premier Division, FCV Grace Dieu, and Cotgrave Seniors, who clash on the last Saturday of the year, continue to go at it hammer and tongs, with just seven points separating ahead of the big day (Cotgrave have two games in hand). They weren’t the…
It’s been a while since my last visit to Southwell. Christmas Jumper Day and a chance to see the lads ahead of the festive break offered a long awaited return to the Rolleston based race track on Saturday. The all weather circuit is one of the best and most popular for running horses in the…
Mansfield Town continued their strong start to the season on Sunday, registering their eighth clean sheet of the season (third in succession), in a 1-0 win away to mid-table Stamford, and sit second in the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Premier Division. With Chesterfield, slipping to third, on cup duty (won 5-1 at home…
Double success came the way of SJR Worksop on Saturday afternoon in the Central Midlands Alliance, their firsts winning 2-0 at Yorkshire Main to continue that steady climb from the relegation zone of the Premier North, and the development sides won 4-1 at Dearne & District to increase their advantage atop of Division One North….
A nine-goal thriller, in winter, on a Friday night, surely what every would love to warm those cockles, well FC Sez nearly threw that one away when at AFC Dunkirk in the Euro Soccer Nottinghamshire Senior League Premier Division. Racing into a four-goal, interval lead, the visitors, who moved up a place to fourth bottom…
A tantalising affair this evening at this City Ground, as it lay host to a late-spectacle for Nottingham Forest, who thanks to the ingenuity of Nuno Espírito Santo secured a huge late comeback and three points against a sharp Emery side. The first half This half lacked “punch”, should we say. Both sides fought in…
Dillon Pennington has signed a contract extension at Trent Bridge, committing him to Nottinghamshire until the end of 2027. The seamer enjoyed a stellar first year with the club, claiming 31 County Championship wickets at less than 24 apiece to earn selection for England’s Test squad against West Indies. That included his first five-wicket haul…
Top-order batter Ben Slater has penned a new contract, keeping him at Trent Bridge until the end of the 2027 season. The left hander struck 949 Division One runs in 2024 – second only to Haseeb Hameed in the Notts side. That tally put him in the top 10 run-scorers in the league, while he…
‘Football Land’, a book about Forest’s remarkable last three seasons, written by our very own Stephen Parker and published on December 10th, just in time for Christmas! Here’s a taster from the introduction. Over Trent Bridge, a glimpse of the grey river, then into the wall of a crowd shuffling towards the City Ground. We…
Australian fast-bowling all-rounder Fergus O’Neill has signed for the first 28 days of Nottinghamshire’s Rothesay County Championship campaign. The 23-year-old averages 21.50 with the ball in First-Class Cricket having played 24 matches for Victoria. Last season, he claimed 40 Sheffield Shield wickets at 17.25 to win the club’s First-Class player of the season title. In…
Differing weather conditions continue to cause havoc with the fixture schedule as we move headlong into the winter period, and the Central Midlands Alliance suffered the same fate as most others on Saturday afternoon, with just five games involving Notts clubs going ahead. Both of the SJR Worksop teams were in action though, although with…
A handful of games were played across the Notts Senior League on Saturday afternoon, as the continuing, ever-changing weather conditions, caused havoc with the fixture schedules, and just nine games going ahead. In the NSL Premier Division, two games went ahead, and they shared ten goals, with Aslockton & Orston taking advantage of others’ inactivity…
He’s bagged goals wherever he’s played, be it for club, or for country, and now, on what was his 33 birthday, Christopher Grant Wood has become the leading Premier League scorer for Nottingham Forest, with 25 goals, doing so with the winner, at Old Trafford, against Manchester United. Overtaking that which was set by Dutchman,…
Manchester United 2-3 Nottingham Forest (Premier League) 07.12.24 It was a huge night in Manchester, as Nottingham Forest took all three points, 10,300+ days since their last victory at Old Trafford. A real spectacle – Manchester is Red. The first half Forest started early, with an incredible goal. A wonderful header from Milenkovic opens the…
Wicketkeeper-batter Kyle Verreynne will return to Nottinghamshire for the 2025 Rothesay County Championship. The South African scored 248 runs and claimed six dismissals in three games for Notts last term. His contributions – which included an unbeaten 148 against Warwickshire – ensured Nottinghamshire secured survival in Division One of the County Championship in 2024. He…
Nottingham Forest extended their unbeaten start to the 2024/25 season to sixteen matches in all competitions, with a comprehensive, 19-0 rout, of visitors Long Itchington, in the Adobe Women’s FA Cup at the weekend, on what was goalkeeper Emily Batty’s 100th appearance. Carly Davies’ side, who’ve now won fourteen and drawn two of those sixteen,…
Cotgrave are just about keeping pace with a rampant, FCV Grace Dieu, atop of the EuroSoccer Nottinghamshire Senior League Premier Division, whilst Collingham’s early challenge is now in real danger of petering out following a heavy defeat. Having won just one of their last five outings (losing three and drawing one), Collingham suffered a heavy…
Central Midlands Alliance Premier South high-fliers, South Normanton Athletic, have certainly had the number of Notts clubs this season, putting some thirty-eight goals past a combined, Arnold Town (twice), Teversal (twice), and Mansfield Hosiery Mills. In fact, twenty of those goals have come in their last two games, inflicting season low, ten-goal hammerings, on both…
