West Bridgford Football Club replaced their manager in May with Ryan Doherty stepping down from a short but successful time with the East Midlands Counties outfit to be replaced by Chris Galley, a man who knows the club, and the local non-league football scene very well indeed. I worked with Chris myself, at Real United…
“At last” we cry, Nottingham Forest are back playing football, all be it under very unusual but at least ‘safe’ circumstances thanks to the various new measures brought into play but was it very much same again as we analyse our post-lockdown Reds or did we learn something new about Sabri Lamouchi’s men after they…
With the return of football and the Premier League starting tonight. It pains me to ask why cricket hasn’t yet resumed in England following the lockdown implemented through the outbreak of covid-19. After all football is a contact sport, yes the nation’s favourite but is it not easier to socially distance whilst playing cricket? Could…
Friday 6th March 2020 was the last time Nottingham Forest kicked a competitive football in the EFL Championship, a game that was anything but competitive in the end, the Reds destroyed by Millwall, too rough, too tough, too damn right good for their underwhelming hosts at the City Ground, the away team eventually going on…
It was 12th May 1993 all of 27 years ago today when Nottingham Forest Football Club announced that the very nice man provided with the mammoth task of replacing GOD was no other than the humble former full back we all knew so well in Mr Frank Clark. Clark, like Clough, a North Easterner, but…
One of the few positives to come out of the end of football has been the universal gratitude towards those greats of the past. The top players, the biggest matches, the greatest teams… It seems everywhere you look there’s a best XI or a top ten or even a classic game or goal being highlighted…
So on Wednesday afternoon, we posed a serious question on our Twitter feed to find the best fish ponds and spots in Notts… After all, fishing is a sport isn’t it? Growing up in the 90’s and kicking flat leather peeling balls around on the street corners and parks after school every night past dark…
Our third and final report on the counties three major professional teams focuses on one that sadly had to give up their title as the worlds oldest football league club last summer. Notts County Football Club had a disastrous 2018/19 which started after missing out the year before on promotion with optimism and ended with…
Well it’s been a funny old season for the Stags… Starting last summer a little underwhelmed with a new Manager in John Dempster who was quickly appointed gaffer last May following the sacking of David Flitcroft. A previous boss who took over from Steve Evans just 3 months earlier before leading the side from the…
The latest halt to proceedings in the football calendar perhaps gives us time to reflect on our counties three top sides performances this season. Starting with the Red half of the city… Cries of ‘here we go again’ echoed across the county back in June & July as Nottingham Forest rid their “dated & pre-historic”…
On Monday night Nottingham Forest Football Club needed a lift. 2-1 down against relegation threatened Middlesbrough and not playing very well at a half empty Riverside Stadium under the lights we all too familiar with how it all works probably thought to ourselves… ‘It’s just one of those nights’… Enter the diminutive little Portuguese Playmaker…
Yesterday (January 24th) was the 150th birthday of Herbert Kilpin. Who? You might say? That was certainly a question asked until only recently when it was re-discovered 10 or 15 years ago that the founder of one of Europe’s most successful sporting teams and a man that gave football to the people of Milan was…
