629 games, 710 innings, 2937 runs and 713 wickets… It’s been quite the career for Leicester born Samit Patel, a Nottinghamshire cricketing all-rounder of the highest quality. After 22 years at Trent Bridge, the 38-year-old will depart the club, not retire though, as he looks like heading to either Derbyshire or his birth county Leicestershire…
Nottingham Forest are starting to get a bit of a reputation for deadline day dealings after they secured seven September 1st signings in addition to the eleven they had already earlier captured in the summer window. The Reds replacing 33 outgoings in another busy shopping spree since securing their Premier League status last season and…
On Saturday 29th July 2023, Stuart Broad announced his retirement from cricket, at stumps, on day three of the fifth Ashes test, partway through a ninth wicket stand with his old side-kick and mate James Anderson still besides him at the crease, midst a vital match at the Oval, one which England felt they could…
Looking over your shoulder in the County Championship adds nervousness and tension to games especially when you are playing one of those teams below you in the table. Notts thankfully now have a cushion on Kent in one of two relegation places after a 321 run win at Trent Bridge but it didn’t always look…
Andy Murray beat Arthur Cazaux of France to win the Rothesay Nottingham Open men’s singles title and the two-time Wimbledon champion had the perfect father’s day present when post-game, he realised his wife and children were in the audience to watch him win 6-4, 6-4, as he prepares the necessary steps ahead of his return…
The Blaze 209/9-23/0 Western Storm (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) 10.05.23 *Match abandoned A day that began with sunshine, ended in rain and abandonment, at least preserves the unbeaten start to the season for Nottinghamshire’s newest franchise, the East Midlands establishment now known as ‘the Blaze’ are sitting pretty at the top of the Rachael Heyhoe…
It’s been a stop, start, stumbling season so far and we’ve not even hit the heights of summer yet. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club have returned to the top tier of domestic red ball action after winning the second division of the county championship last season but it’s not all gone to plan three and a…
The Blaze 212-153 Central Sparks (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) 22.04.23 *The Blaze won by 59 runs There’s a new team in Notts… The Cricketing franchise that was Loughborough Lightning has all changed for the 2023 season and The Blaze have been created to participate in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as the East Midlands newest…
If losing a huge relegation six pointer isn’t bad enough, losing a Manager and the very Head Coach who got you into the Premier League after 23 long years of failed attempts, would spell a disastrous double blow but thankfully that concern was quashed earlier today, by an astute owner in Evangelos Marinakis who understands…
I’m extremely excited by this one. Ever since the news in the summer came through that Gustavo Scarpa was joining Nottingham Forest after he finished his season in Brazil, the Palmeiras playmaker has very much been on my radar, and you can’t help but feel impressed. 31 starts seven goals and twelve assists for the…
It was always going to be the answer to an obvious question asked, ‘let’s just see where we are by the time the World Cup starts’… The English Premier League season split into two, for the first time ‘deliberately’ since it began in 1992, Nottingham Forest returning to the top tier for the first time…
After the jubilation of beating Liverpool at the City Ground last week came the almost inevitable underwhelming deflation of losing at the Emirates on Sunday, not the loss in particular, that was significant against top of the table Arsenal, but the manner of which Steve Cooper’s side performed, the most disappointing aspect to take away…
One of the biggest reasons why we love Steve Cooper? Is that he understands people… He understands ‘us’ as Nottingham Forest fans, and he understands ‘our’ needs and demands (even when sometimes unrealistic). Now, we don’t expect Harlem Globetrotters all of the time, we certainly want to play the right way, but first and foremost…
Yesterday I found myself as a late substitute, asked to be part of an all paid for table at Nottingham Racecourse for Construction Day, and an event which was made for mingling with a number of local companies’ bosses swapping business cards with one another. As Editor of Nottingham Sport, I felt pretty useless in…
Notts County 3-1 Altrincham (National League) 01.10.22 Notts County Head Coach Luke Williams said ‘it was good to win on an off day’ as his side disposed of plucky Altrincham with two goals before half time and one on the hour which dented any hopes of a visiting comeback. The Magpies looked sharp from the…
On Saturday morning gone, on what was day three of a delayed test match between two commonwealth nations, players from England and South Africa walked out of the Pavilion at the Oval Cricket Ground to deathly silence, despite over 25,000 spectators being in attendance. The whole crowd, stood to pay their respects for the passing…
Aged just 16 years and three months old, defender Zach Abbott made his first-team debut for Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night in the Carabao Cup second round tie against Grimsby Town, today he gets his GCSE results to cap a memorable week in the young life of a boy who has huge promise in the…
It’s 1988 and my tenth birthday is upon us. A big box wrapped in teddy bear paper is about to be ripped open, I’ve wanted this all year since marking it off in the toys section of the Argos catalogue, Subbuteo is the game that every boy of my era must have. As I open…
Oh how you red dogs are already wanting to shoot me down for even bringing this up in a headline. It made you look though, clickbait is the word, you can thank Sport Bible, Lad Bible, Givemesport and all those other infuriating websites where each paragraph is separated by a Google ad for something your…
Congratulations to the England Women’s Football Team who beat Germany in dramatic late fashion at Wembley Stadium yesterday to lift the European Championships trophy, a first major tournament win for a senior England side since 1966. 31.7.22 will always be forever remembered as the day ‘our women’ brought football home, and the party will continue……
