Definitely not a Forest-only chant, although we seem to have a slight variation compared to most teams. But you will hear this from fans ranging from Manchester United or Chelsea, right down to the Boston United or Notts County’s of this world; and frankly, well, for the vast majority of us it’s a very strange chant indeed. I shall run with the Forest version:
“And it’s No-tt-ing-ham Fo-rest..
Nottingham Forest FC!
We’re by far the greatest team,
You’ll ever see!”
(repeat: last line for other clubs seems to be ‘The world has ever seen’)
It’s strange because even in my happiest and most blissful biasedness, I have seen greater teams than Forest, based on whatever measure you’d like to use (maybe I’d be less flippant if I were old enough to see the European Cup winners), so when you have fans of Scunthorpe United or Swansea City singing it up at you, it does make it all the more amusing. It’s understandable, it’s a chant that symbolises our blind faith/support of our teams, but if you break it down it’s quite amusing given how hugely inaccurate it is!
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If you can cast aside thoughts of a couple of not insignificant cup blips, first a 2-2 draw with Bristol City culminating in defeat by penalties, and of course Sunday’s game in Wiltshire in which Salisbury City held us to a 1-1 draw, then we’re actually on pretty good form. We’ve won five of our last six league games, drawing the other with in-form Rotherham United; this run of excellent league form has left us six points clear atop League One.
) James Hayter is probably the player to watch out for; he’s a 20+ goal a season striker and just bagged his 7th goal of the campaign, so he’ll be keen to keep banging them in to make sure he gets to the magic number this season. He’s is an old-school poacher type of striker, with a lethal predatory instict – so we’ll need to be on our toes and do a better job on him than we did with Matt Tubbs on Sunday!
