David Platt to sue Forest?!
27 October, 2006
According to the Telegraph, former manager (not the obnoxious little oik on Coronation Street) David Platt - unbelievably - has apparently unleashed the lawyers onto Forest in order to claim a bonus that then-chairman Eric Barnes sanctioned around five years ago when we had the unfortunate experience of the former England international ‘managing’ us and pissing away all our money on a bunch of shite.
Platt, affectionately known by all manner of expletives amongst Forest fans, has had his solicitors lodge a writ with the high court, which happened last week - but early indications seem to suggest that Forest are - thankfully - standing their ground and electing not to pay the incompetent bastard a penny of this supposed bonus (which apparently he’s agreed to deduct more than £10,000 from due to “unforeseen expenses” whilst on a club trip to Marbella in January 2001).
Presumably since he pissed off to the England U21 job having already nearly irreparably damaged Forest he waived any right to any kind of bonus - it’s interesting to note he made a complete hash of that job as well. I remember reading he was looking to come back into management, well presumably no bugger else wants the useless twunt which is why he’s resorting to this - he’s just won £55,000 for wrongful dismissal from the FA - how it can ever be wrongful to sack that useless bastard I’ll never know!
So should you read this, Mr Doughty - stand your ground and don’t give the odious little sod any cash at all, were it not for his flagrant wasting of millions I firmly believe we would not be where we are today - we should sue him for being criminally incompetent! As for you, David, I should stick to your tactics column in Four Four Two magazine - let’s face it, even that is a little too challenging for your pitiful football knowledge. Leave Nottingham Forest alone and never darken our door again!
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The vacancy at Sheffield Wednesday is reportedly down to a shortlist of three, two thirds of which comprise of former Forest related candidates. The first one is unsurprisingly former Forest manager (and indeed, almost Forest player - had he managed to make an appearance!) Gary Megson. The ginger taskmaster has been out of work since parting with Forest after a disastrous spell in charge, and is of course a former Wednesday player.
If Brian Laws were appointed then I would take more interest in Wednesday, much as I do with Manchester City at the moment with Pearce at the helm (but for how long?). Laws was one of my very favourite Forest players, so I’ve always kept an eye on his progress as a manager - certainly whilst it made me feel physically sick, if I had to get tonked 4-0 at home in the league - I’m glad it was for his benefit rather than any other manager.
Forest are set to play Cheltenham Town for the first time ever on saturday, and our trip to Whaddon Road on paper couldn’t be better timed - we’re still unbeaten on our travels, and on the back of a three game winning streak, whereas poor old Cheltenham have lost eight from the last nine games - so it’s unsurprising to see them at the opposite end of the table to us, currently sitting in 22nd - just two points ahead of Rotherham, despite having a ten point head start on them!
Alan Rogers, the self-confessed Premiership standard left back, has been dumped by Bradford City to free up some cash to secure other players on a contract - which is quite amusing. The chubby Scouser was on a week to week contract having been released by Forest having contributed bugger all since Kinnear signed him for his second Forest spell, including being banned from the dressing room!
In a little over two months of blogging about Forest, the site has managed to get to almost 20,000 hits - and the last two days have been somewhat crazy, twice breaking the previous busiest day for the site - see what happens when you post something about fighting? I dunno, you lot are obviously all just a bit morbidly obsessed with such things! I’ve been pleasantly surprised though with the various comments being left and amount of traffic, so thanks, and please do keep commenting.
Insanely fast healing-machine Nathan Tyson is on the brink of returning to training, according to the latest reports coming from Forest HQ today - the lightning-quick striker is due to resume full training next week, after a knee-ligament injury right at the start of the season has sidelined him up until now. He is also rather optimistically targeting a reserve game a week on monday for his first competitive action since the injury! Nathan had the following to say to the ‘Forest World’ news service:
It was with some disbelief that both in the City Ground, and around the various Forest forums on the internet I heard and read genuinely disrespectful comments towards our manager from some sections of the Forest support. Generally centred around the rather defensive nature of our second half display against Bristol, and particularly focused around the substitution of Junior Agogo in said fixture.
Nicky Eaden is apparently set to enter negotiations to make his loan move to Lincoln City a permanent affair during the january transfer window. The much maligned former Wigan right back has been enjoying a new lease of life with the Imps, and is reportedly valued both on and off the pitch by the staff at Lincoln.
