Mansfield Town 1-2 Leyton Orient (EFL League Two) 25.04.23 Despite defeat at home to the champions, Leyton Orient, EFL League Two promotion-chasers, Mansfield Town, are still in with a chance of joining the end-of-season party, with just three points separating the five contenders, and two games remaining. All three goals in this top eight clash…
Tuesday night will see a massive game in Mansfield Town’s bid for promotion this season, the Stags welcoming the EFL League Two champions, Leyton Orient, to the One Call Stadium. Nigel Clough’s side have, somehow, battled on in recent months, the injury-hit side putting together a nine-match unbeaten run which has kept them in the…
Nottingham Forest 3-2 Watford *aet (FA Women’s National League Cup Final) 23.04.23 Well, in our preview of this cup final we said, and we quote: “Separate the two sides if you dare, we could be in for going the distance in this one,” and we couldn’t have been any closer, both Nottingham Forest and Watford…
One in, one out, in the United Counties Division One play-offs after Newark Town lost their semi-final, away to Birstall United, on Saturday afternoon, whilst Hucknall Town, thanks to the heroics of goalkeeper Louis Kinnerley, defeated Bourne Town on penalties. At Birstall, in front a 400-strong crowd,, the hosts raced into a three-goal, first half…
Football is an interesting game – sometimes, even the best of performances from a side can lead to a loss – and while that is not necessarily the story of Nottingham Forest’s defeat to Liverpool this weekend, it was one of/if not the best performances since the Leicester win in January, three months ago, despite…
Mansfield Town 1-0 Stevenage (EFL League Two) 22.04.23 A game of few chances at the One Call Stadium was edged by a solitary, first half goal, from Davis Keillor-Dunn, his sixth since joining, as Mansfield Town kept up their play-off push with victory over Stevenage. Following a quiet opener it would be the hosts who’d…
Sunday afternoon, at the Pirelli Stadium, home of Burton Albion, sees the final of the 2022-23 FA Women’s National League, League Cup, as Andy Cook’s Nottingham Forest (Northern Premier Division) take on Damon Lathorpe’s Watford (Southern Premier). The two sides could also meet in the promotion play-off, Forest currently leading the North, whilst Watford are…
Only a handful of games remain this season, and, for Mansfield Town in EFL League Two, and their play-off aspirations, the remaining, four games, have never been more important. Just three points separate Nigel Clough’s side, sitting in eighth place, on 69 points, and Dave Challinor’s Stockport County, who are fourth, on 72 points, however…
Newport County 1-2 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 18.04.23 Mansfield overcame a 320-mile round-trip to South Wales on Wednesday night to bring a much-needed three points in the race for the play-offs, back to Nottinghamshire, extending their unbeaten run to eight games, but not without cost. Hiram Boateng scored his third in four games for…
Twenty teams in the Premier League: twelve managers sacked … so far! What’s going on? Read on. Children pat out sandcastles from coloured buckets on a sunny day at the beach. A cluster of senior citizens shuffles dominoes across a pub table. Teenagers high-five a strike at a ten-pin bowling alley. A family throws a…
Can it really get much tighter than what’s happening atop of the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier – Nottingham Forest still lead the way, Burnley are just two points behind them in second, and Wolverhampton Wanderers are third, just an extra point back. To make things that little more spicy, second travel to third…
Champions, and play-off contenders, Nottinghamshire certainly knows how to do it as both Worksop Town (Northern Premier League East) and Retford United (Central Midlands League Northern Premier) continued their title celebrations, whilst Hucknall Town, and Newark Town, confirmed play-off spots in the United Counties League Division One. In the Southern League Central, Basford United were…
Grimsby Town 1-1 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 15.04.23 Another game, and yet another draw for promotion-chasing Mansfield Town after Nigel Clough’s Stags were held to a 1-1 draw at Blundell Park on Saturday afternoon. Granted the Stags are unbeaten in their last six, but, with four of those being draws, it means of a…
The 21/22 campaign for Nottingham Forest was nothing short of heroic – climbing from rock bottom to the top six, and gaining promotion via Wembley, a dream that most Reds fans would never have anticipated becoming a reality in their lifetime, bare in mind just eight months after fears of relegation to League One. With…
I blame Manchester United – in part, at least – for the early demise to my blossoming career as a sports journalist. It’s a tale full of intrigue, with accusations of fraud and dodgy money-making. The saga would have sat comfortably in today’s Westminster world of law-bending and money for honours culture but this was…
Bank Holiday madness ensued in the Nottinghamshire non-league scene this Easter Monday, and we’re not talking the heart-breaking, five-goal thriller, between Wrexham and Notts County; further down the pyramid, albeit in just seven games, there was some twenty-five goals scored. Goal machine, Ben Starkie, smashed a brace to ensure Basford’s safety; Worksop scored another four…
Mansfield Town 1-1 Rochdale (EFL League Two) 10.04.23 No matter how much they huffed, and they puffed, Nigel Clough’s Stags could not blow down bottom club Rochdale, settling instead for a 1-1 draw in this home, EFL League Two encounter. It was to be a point that would see the Stags slip back out of…
Could Charlotte Greengrass lead Nottingham Forest to a League and Cup double, and an all-important promotion, come the end of this National League season? Time will tell but, right now, heading into the closing weeks, the signs are, well, pretty good. There’s a lot of football to be played though, between now, and what will…
As the season, ever-so slowly, inches towards its closure, only a handful of games in the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League were played on Sunday afternoon, including Basford United. The Premier Division side, led by co-managers, Jake Hemstock and Sara Harnett, played their last game of a tough season, picking up a huge three-points…
Where, oh where, does one begin, following an exciting day for Nottinghamshire’s flagship, non-league sides, on Easter Saturday? Basford United picked up a big win in the Southern League Central Division, as did Carlton Town in the Northern Premier League East Division; the NPL East champions, Worksop Town, created history when stretching their unbeaten run…
