Basford United travel to the Leicestershire village of Barwell tomorrow as they look for three points in search of climbing up the Southern League Central Division table to the playoff zone. The Ambers are currently eight points off the top five but won last time out, beating Alvechurch 3-0 before their midweek fixture with high…
Eyes opened wide when Nottingham Forest signed Atalanta’s veteran Swiss international midfielder Remo Freuler in September, a star player in Italy’s Serie A, nearing fifty caps and with plenty of Champions League experience. It wasn’t the easiest of starts for a footballer who initially struggled to get to grips with the pace of the Premier…
Notts County face a potentially pivotal week in the National League title race, with difficult trips to both Chesterfield and Solihull on the horizon. The Magpies will be looking to end a somewhat stuttering run of two draws in their last three league games that has seen Wrexham close the gap at the top of…
It’s our third year of telling you who’s the best in these parts and in 2022 we enjoyed a memorable 12 months of sport with success on the field of play and some serious added talent to go with, born in the county, raised in the city, working for one of our great clubs, whoever…
There’s been plenty of hype around the Brazilian duo in Danilo and Scarpa since arriving at Nottingham Forest in the January transfer window, and rightly so. The ex-Palmerias teammates will certainly add a new dynamic to Steve Cooper’s side who are growing into Premier League life. However, their fellow Brazilian, Renan Lodi, has started to…
Notts TV hosted live the Notts FA Women’s County Cup Draw for the competitions Senior Section Quarter Finals last night with Mansfield Hosiery Mills set to face Notts County Women and Nottingham Trent University welcoming Nottingham Forest in two very eye catching matches indeed. The two other ties are equally as mouth watering as Mansfield…
With the Premier League now at the midway stage and Nottingham Forest sitting in 13th place, five points clear of the relegation spots, just a few weeks ago, this rise would have been a near impossible thought given the run of games ensuing the new year: Chelsea (h), Southampton (a) & Leicester (h) – one…
It wasn’t the most successful evening in the football calendar last night as a host of non-league games were postponed due to the frosty January weather whilst two of our local teams crashed out of cup competitions with Nottingham Forest losing to Ipswich Town in the FA Youth Cup on penalties whilst Basford United Ladies…
When the Titanic hit an iceberg in April 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, Captain Edward John Smith went down with his ship. He was following a maritime tradition, though there was no legal obligation to do so. If ‘the last person to leave the sinking ship’ has a ring of…
Languishing in ninth place but still just a point outside the playoffs, it’s been a turbulent troubled time for Mansfield Town in recent weeks with some flat performances returning just one win and five points in six games, their most recent a 1-1 home draw with Crewe where midfielder George Maris was sent off late…
Yesterday, Nottingham Forest confirmed their capture of Brazilian midfielder Danilo on a contract until 2029 for a fee worth in the region of £18m. The 21-year-old samba star was one of the key cogs for Palmeiras who’s title winning season last year ended with a Serie A championship and State championship of Sao Paulo. In…
A hat-trick for Yasmin Mosby, and braces for both Becky Anderson, Amy West, and Charlotte Steggles, helped Nottingham Forest Women romp to the top of the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier on Sunday afternoon, following a 12-1 demolition job of hosts, AFC Fylde. Boasting a game in hand on second place Wolverhampton Wanders, the…
The constant, incessant, ever-changing weather conditions meant that only a handful of matches managed to go ahead across Nottinghamshire’s non-league at the weekend, with mixed fortunes for the county’s sides. Basford United, in the Southern Premier League Central Division, paid tribute to the recently passed ‘legend’ Malcolm Storer, in the best possible way, three points,…
Nottingham Forest continue their rise up the Premier League table, after convincingly beating East-Midlands rivals Leicester City in a game which included a Brennan Johnson brace. Coming into the match, Forest were in a great mindset after beating Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals. Steve Cooper is a man who has shown that his…
This weekend, National League leaders Notts County welcome fellow fifth tier outfit Maidstone United in the fourth round of the FA Trophy. Notts County over recent years have struggled in cup runs, as shown earlier this season when Notts were knocked out of the FA Cup qualifiers by Coalville Town, who currently play in the…
Last time these two teams met, their situations were completely different, yet so similar. Both teams were struggling, rooted to the bottom of the table. On that day, Leicester ran away with it at the King Power Stadium as 4-0 victors, but the Foxes will not be playing the same Nottingham Forest side. Form is…
An eye-catching scoreline: Nottingham Forest 12 – 0 Leicester. Remember that? No, not even I do! That thrashing for Leicester Fosse (as they were then) came in a First Division fixture in 1909 and proved to be the heaviest defeat they’ve ever suffered. They went on to be relegated and, a decade later, ‘Fosse’ became…
Sunday marked four years to the day since Jim O’Brien arrived at Notts County after leaving Bradford City. As The Magpies’ longest serving player, O’Brien has seen a lot since he first walked through the door at Notts, from the highs of a Semi-Final victory and derby-day wins to the lows of Playoff heartache and…
Nottingham Forest will face Manchester United in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup, after beating Wolverhampton Wanderers on penalties. The Reds played out a feisty 1-1 draw with Wolves, managing to squeeze past them 4-3 on penalties, after some remarkable Dean Henderson saves. After a tough start to the season, as well as a disappointing defeat…
It wasn’t for the faint hearted last night as the rain poured down on Meadow Lane, a few games locally had already been called off but not at Notts, by the time they had finished their match against Boreham Wood in a soddened NG2 they probably wished there’s had suffered similar fate, but a point…
