Holly Hits 100 Up

It was a first league defeat of the season for Nottingham Forest, whilst Notts County picked up a hard-fought home win, on what was Pies women’s captain Holly Fowler’s 100 appearance for the club, in the FA Women’s National League at the weekend. In seeing off Leafield Athletic 2-1, the hosts’ Takiah Burnett opened the…

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Spend Spend Spend!

A week before ‘Transfer Deadline Day’, the following exchange took place prior to the billionaire Chelsea owner, Todd Boehly, being interviewed on the radio. Reporter: What impact has austerity had in football? Boehly: Austerity, never heard of him. Who’s he? Reporter: I mean – Boehly: Is he available? Let’s get him quick! By the time…

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Reds Win At Chelsea

Chelsea 0-1 Nottingham Forest (Premier League) 02.09.23 Forest take-over the capital, three points is theirs after a tantalising affair at Stamford Bridge on a memorable weekend for the Reds; Pathetic fallacy if you will, as the sun shone, Steve Cooper’s men triumphed over Mauricio Pochettino’s high-spending Chelsea. 1st Half: In all honesty, a dull affair….

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Fantasy Football

League tables can – and do – play havoc with the imagination. Dreams get ignited and nightmares flare up. Only two games into the Premiership season and the media would have us jostling for our team as ‘top four’ contenders or ‘relegation material’. And it’s still August, so still time for sunshine-lazy days and wallowing…

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Forest End Pre-Season With Blades Win

Three wins and a draw from five, pre-season outings, a new Head Coach, and several new players, just about has Nottingham Forest Women ready for Sunday’s FA Women’s National League Premier North opener, at home to Stourbridge. Sunday’s come-from-behind victory, away to Barclays Women’s Championship outfit, Sheffield United, saw the Reds unbeaten in their last…

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The Glorious Twelfth

Mention of August 12th in some sections of society will have fingers twitching and tweed jackets brushed-down and ready. Welcome to the first day of the grouse-shooting season, the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ as participants would have it. A calendar highlight of the year for the aristocracy in decades past, it’s now money more than pedigree that…

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Trevor Francis

English Football’s first million-pound-man, Trevor Francis, has sadly passed away aged 69 after a heart attack suffered at his home in Marbella, Spain, on Monday morning. The former Nottingham Forest forward who scored the goal that won the European Cup against Malmo in 1979 will be fondly remembered as not just a football first, but…

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