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……
There’s a video of a young girl doing the rounds on social media, probably no older than five or six-years-old, dancing and singing arms up in the air to ‘Sweet Caroline’ after England Women’s comprehensive victory over Sweden in the semi-finals of the European Championships at Bramall Lane last night. Not the furthest England have…
I’m getting a bit sick of it to be honest. Football pundits old and new, people in the game with knowledge and experience, people outside the game just wanting to have their say on the matter, it seems everyone is talking about it, the fact little old Nottingham Forest ‘dare’ last week offer out of…
Nottingham Forest have today completed a huge statement signing of England International Jesse Lingard on a season long deal rumoured to be worth over £120,000 per week in wages. The player was out of contract following his departure from Manchester United and joins the Reds on a free after it looked for long periods this…
Holding back the tears has become far from easy to do as Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Brice Samba bids farewell to the City Ground, in an emotional message put out on social media today, the popular Congolese goalkeeper said his ‘thank you’s’ to those that have supported him during his three year tenure in this of…
For less than two weeks now, Nottingham Forest have been a Premier League club and whilst the dust starts to settle on a stunning Sunday at Wembley, a magical Monday on the square, and a jubilant jubilee weekend of over spilling celebrations across the Robin Hood county, it’s soon back to business as usual for…
Nottingham Forest take on Huddersfield Town this weekend in the most lucrative game of football on the planet, the difference in winning and losing, said to be more than £170m over the next three seasons after future revenues are considered, for breaking into the Premier League. For Nottingham Forest fans, it is about more than…
A long awaited local golf club I first went to in July 2021 was the sublime Nottinghamshire Golf & Country Club where I reviewed the Championship Course and back then, which you can read in full here, I stated I would be returning, but this time most likely, to play at the Signature Course, so…
The facts are that if Nottingham Forest win their next two matches, they will be ‘almost certain’ to gain automatic promotion to the Premier League for the first time since 1998. Although even that’s still not really assured in the dizzy heights of the Championship, take Fulham’s 7-0 win against Luton Town last night, as…
Durham 230 v 371/3 Nottinghamshire (County Championship Division Two) 22.04.22 *day two (of four) If Carlsberg did Fridays they would favourably put Notts in control of cricket matches so that with two days to spare they’ll be up some and more with plenty of time and wickets in hand for a Saturday slog and an…
Durham 230 v 50/0 Nottinghamshire (County Championship Division Two) 21.04.22 *day one (of four) It was a good day for Nottinghamshire who bowled out their hosts Durham and reduced a chaseable first innings deficit down before dusk with everything still in-tact. A bit of cloud hovers the early morning Northern skies but generally bright as…
