We’ve been calling him Scotch John for the last ten years… It’s only now that he tells me his name is ‘Duncan’… Those of you who know will know, Scottish by name, Nottingham by nature, John, sorry Duncan, has been on the barrels at Trent Bridge since the days of Eddie Hemmings it seems? Things…
Not many better goals have been scored at the City Ground than the left footed thunderbolt volley by Jack Colback in the 4-0 demolition last night against West Bromwich Albion, but questions on whether ‘he’ meant it? Or not? Will define whether it can ‘really’ be considered as one of the ‘greatest Nottingham Forest goals…
Sussex 375 v Nottinghamshire 214/5 (County Championship Division Two) 08.04.22 *day two (of four) Awoken to the alarm of day two on the adjacent south east coastal towns of Brighton & Hove as the gulls fly and squawk above on a cloudy and overcast morning which thankfully feels a little less breezy, than the gale force…
I’m not denying I’m a fair-weather golfer. I played once in December and scrapped January off completely, a couple of pleasantly dry days in Feb meant I dusted off the clubs again but after the rain I wasn’t prepared to get my feet wet, or muddy… It’s not me… Give me sunshine and hard ground,…
Nottinghamshire 130/1 & 192/5 v Warwickshire 197/4 dec & 115/3 (Friendly) 26.03.22-27.03.22 *two day match drawn The sun shone on Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire over the weekend as both sides shown glimpses of what’s on offer this coming season ahead with competent displays in a friendly match at Trent Bridge that was split into two maximum…
Non-league football fans locally might have recently started to notice a weird looking bright orange hovering object delicately propelling in the skies at the side of some the counties pitches. The more regular occurrences are at matches in the Nottinghamshire Senior League, Wollaton Angels’ Charity games and those of the East Midlands Women’s Regional League…
There’s an old saying in the game which goes something like ‘football is nothing without fans’ but in some ways, with little thanks to COVID and lockdown disruptions over the last couple of seasons, the game of football has proved that with or without fans, it still goes on. The billions in the Premier League…
Local sports fans might be interested that there’s a latest podcast in BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sport’s Strangest Crimes series, titled The Trillion Dollar Conman which unless you were there, fooled and involved by the remarkable shenanigans at the time, and I believe many of you were, it probably feels more like fiction than fact…
Not a lot of people know that during their early years, Nottingham Forest Football Club were not just a one sport soccer shop. Popular with playing Bandy and Shinty (similar to hockey, on and off ice) the club also played Baseball, and in 1900 they even beat ‘them’ from down the road to win England’s…
It was just a couple weeks into the 2014/15 campaign when we heard ‘the managers job’ at Rainworth Miners Welfare was up for grabs. Then playing in the Northern Premier League Division One South, the start to the season (having finished a credible fifteenth the year before) hadn’t been going too well for the Wrens,…
2020 winners Arsenal have experienced it, 2021 winners and holders Leicester City have now experienced it too, next up Huddersfield Town who last won it 100 years ago, those Yorkshire Terriers of our very own Championship will also get to experience it for themselves… A rocking City Ground at it’s very best. Banked on the…
On Friday night at the City Ground, fans rallied together to precisely place a series of huge flags and banners in the Trent End stand ready for the following days hotly contested ‘derby game’ with the auld enemy from west A52. Forza Garibaldi are the genius behind the work of also previous unbelievable graphics that…
For many years the voice of Notts County Football Club was almost as recognisable as those famous black and white striped shirts themselves. Colin Slater MBE, born in Bradford on 28th February 1934, sadly passed away aged 87 today, January 10th 2022, but with that sad news of a legendary and iconic local sports figure…
Whilst many in Nottingham will be chomping at the bit for a high-octane Premier League cup draw this weekend which will be played in front of a packed City Ground house and televised late Sunday afternoon on ITV sport, some fans will instead be less optimistic, saying begrudgingly ‘not them again’, as for the fourth…
We don’t usually do gossip and hearsay at the Nottingham Sport. We leave that for other publications to concentrate on in vain attempt for clickbait to their own websites, but we do monitor the walls of Twitter and Facebook as frequently as we read our local and less local press nemeses’ to see what’s going…
It’s that time of the year again… No, not that time we used to celebrate as Christmas with all our family and friends, but the time when the UK Government tells us to mask up, jab up, stay safe and don’t party or mix with any other humans in fear of catching the latest deadly…
It’s been a while I know… Every so often I’ve been hacking around at my local course at Edwalton, trying to find my balls in the leaves fallen from the trees, but post October I admit I rarely get out, too cold, too wet, too muddy, too dark, too damn hard to find my balls…
We don’t really celebrate birthdays at Nottingham Sport, call us apathetic if you dare, but if we did, we would be celebrating every day through the Twittersphere and social walls of the internet, after all, someone somewhere is always saying ‘happy birthday’ to someone somewhere on any given day, so if we did this just…
There’s a tweet currently doing the rounds that states “advice”… “If you are looking to apply for the vacant Nottingham Forest Managers job, don’t do it”… A statement echoed by many throughout the football world, a poisoned chalice that is the City Ground top job, twenty plus years of misery, obscurity from the best league…
Across the Atlantic, America’s famed, ‘Road to the Super Bowl’ has now begun, as the 32 teams from the AFC & NFC, combined, known as the NFL, battle it out for a place in next February’s, global, showpiece, at the SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California. Last time out, at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida,…
