Back during the 1997-98 season, Worksop Town’s FA Cup run came to a sticky end in the Third Qualifying Round when they lost 4-0 at Croft Park, the home of Blyth Spartans. Fast forward a little over quart-of-a-century, and the new-look Tigers, well-guided by manager Craig Parry, exacted revenge, but at the second time of…
Mansfield Town 0-0 Wrexham (EFL League Two) 03.10.23 This past Tuesday night, under the One Call Stadium lights in EFL League Two, saw both Christy Pym and Arthur Okonkwo at their best as Mansfield Town and Wrexham battled out an entertaining, goalless draw. The hosting Stags, it was another point on the board as they…
Notts County started the week with a trip to Essex to take on Ben Garner’s Colchester team, in a match where The Magpies were perhaps expected to emerge victorious. Players and fans alike would have known the importance of getting some points on the board, given the fact that the league’s top scorers, Swindon Town,…
With matches coming thick-and-fast, both in the men’s, and women’s beautiful game, the draws have been done for the next round of both the national, and county competitions. Following recent matches, and several competitions already having seen a number of rounds played, there’s still a decent number of clubs from within Nottinghamshire’s county borders, partaking…
Beeston Ladies 1s hosted Clifton Robinsons in a hard-fought game at Nottingham Hockey Centre on Saturday 30th September. The sides have now met 8 times in three season across league and cup competitions. Clifton started the better of the two sides scoring in the 8th minute with a well worked move that resulted in the ball falling…
Some reporters had the first half of Sunday’s Forest v Brentford game as a tame affair, like an end-of-season wind-down. But the golden rule in sports reporting is never to put your pen away until the final whistle is blown. Action-packed after the re-start, we got to learn a lot about both sides and, for the…
Five of the seven women’s football sides in FA Cup action on Sunday afternoon progressed to the next round following victory, with only two, Retford, and Sherwood, falling by the wayside, Basford United winning big when on the road at Long Buckby. A brace from both Izzy Sullivan and Laura Porritt, they netting one apiece…
Worksop Town will have to do it all again if they are to continue their FA Cup run this season, following a 1-1 draw up in Northumberland, against cup specialists, Blyth Spartans, whilst in the league there was success for Basford United, and defeat for Carlton Town. Goalless at the break in Blyth, it would…
Gillingham 1-1 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 30.09.23 Two of the top five sides clashed at the Priestfield Stadium on Saturday afternoon as Gillingham played host to the undefeated Mansfield Town, Davis Keillor-Dunn rescuing a point for the visitors. One of two sides still undefeated in League Two, the other being third place Swindon, the…
This weekend’s United Counties Premier North league encounter, away to Wisbech Town, saw Sherwood Colliery already play their seventeenth game of the season, and for club captain, and legend, Jobe Shaw, it’s a continuing pleasure to be a part of. Joining the club back in the summer of 2015, Shaw, a former youth captain and…
Mansfield Town 2-2 Peterborough United *3-1 pens (EFL Cup Round Three) 26.09.23 Mansfield Town came through a tough League Cup tie against Peterborough United to earn themselves a draw at home to Port Vale in late October. Nigel Clough made five changes to the side that started against Barrow in the EFL League Two on…
It was disappointment at home for Adam Dunleavy’s Notts County Women on Sunday afternoon when losing 4-0 to visiting Solihull Moors in the FA Women’s National League Division One Midlands. Often, heavy defeats can perhaps be berated, and rightly so for woeful performances, County though, they were undone by a red card for Emma Scoffham…
Beeston Ladies 1s stunned reigning champions East Grinstead with a hard fought 2-1 win at Nottingham Hockey Centre on week two of the Premier Division season. The win makes it two wins from two after last weeks impressive display against Wimbledon. East Grinstead started strongly and the opening exchanges saw pressure from the Sussex side…
The FA Trophy and FA Vase featured heavily this past Saturday across Nottinghamshire’s non-league scene, the county having clubs partaking in each as Carlton Town progressed to the next round of the former competition, and the likes of Sherwood Colliery, Eastwood, and Kimberley Miners Welfare, progressing in the latter. In the Trophy, Carlton reached the…
Mansfield Town 1-0 Barrow (EFL League Two) 23.09.2023 They made hard work of it, when home to what eventually was ten-man Barrow, but Nigel Clough’s side have stretched their unbeaten start to the season to eleven games in all competitions (taking into consideration end of last season, 12 matches) following a 1-0 win in front…
The long-awaited return to the Football League has matched the high expectations that preceded it, with County sat top after eight games. The visit of lowly Forest Green Rovers to Meadow Lane seemingly posed little threat to Luke Williams’ confident outfit. Yet, the afternoon proved to uncover weaknesses which have persisted throughout the start of…
It was a tale of two halves at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday as Nottingham Forest were beaten by Pep Guardiola’s treble winners. Despite Manchester City’s complete and utter dominance – perhaps expected to some degree – in the first half, and a couple of early goals scored, it didn’t stop Steve Cooper’s side showing…
Their first game of the new current season was only played on 29 July, but, in the ensuing (near) eight weeks, United Counties League Premier North table-toppers, Sherwood Colliery, have already racked up some fourteen outings in all competitions. Perhaps victims of their own success, Wayne’ Savage’s side enjoying early cup runs as well as…
Who hasn’t been confined to the ‘naughty corner’ or missed a playtime for punishment at school? The agony of hearing your mates shouting and laughing outside and the thump-thump of a ball being kicked around whilst you’re forbidden the fun cuts deep in childhood. We’re social animals and any type of exclusion, unless it’s some…
With all the glamour associated with the Premier League transfer market, its embarrassment of riches and exponential escalation of fees, it is easy to overlook temporary deals without a transfer fee tagline. Yet, the loan market is arguably just as much of an important arena to flourish within. Forest fans should know this already, having…
