Despite my earlier pessimism, I must admit the great performance from the Reds today reignited my excitement somewhat; particularly since it became apparent we’d be the first feature on Match of the Day – it seems like forever since I’ve waited in anticipation to watch the programme to see a decent amount of coverage of a Forest game, and even considering the annoying BBC punditry it’s still quite exciting – at least they kept Hanson and Lawrenson away from us.
Ultimately, it was – of course – great to re-live the game, to see the ball-over-the-line, to hear the commentators hint that Nathan Tyson did indeed keep the ball in when the linesman gave a throwin (it’s the WHOLE of the ball you numpty!), to see Tyson’s breathtaking half-the-pitch run, Perchy bursting down the right, Agogo scoring, Southall’s quick freekick, Holt’s header – even seeing Dobie not actually dive quite so blatantly as I thought he had “live”.
If anything, they showed a bit too much Charlton action, it made the game seem more even – and it was disappointing to hear Lee Dixon and Gavin Peacock (I think) basically describe the game as being a Charlton let down – it’s true, they were – but I reckon they could’ve focused a bit more on our positives. Nathan Tyson naturally got a lot of attention, and there was mention of the dreaded “shop window”, but well, it would be folly for Forest to consider selling him. As a special treat I’ve laid my hands on an online clip of the Forest section should you wish to re-watch it – it will either be below this paragraph or you’ll need to click to read the full story. Enjoy!
Okay, maybe because it’s because I’ve just woken up, but I can’t seem to get the embedding to work – so here is a direct link to the video.
7 January, 2007 at 12:39 pm |
hi mate -> have you a link to the above video on google video? With my firefox extension i should be able to download it for prosperity!
Cheers
7 January, 2007 at 3:23 pm |
Thanks for the online clip, I live abroad now so its great to be able to watch MOTD!
Is anyone else having problems with the sound though…?
7 January, 2007 at 5:30 pm |
I’m not sure what’s up with the sound – I’ll attempt to fix it.
7 January, 2007 at 7:28 pm |
I would have like to have heard Hansen’s comments on Charltons defending though.
Was well chuffed we were on first, never expect that from the BBC but in many ways I’m glad the focused more on Charlton than us. Let us just quiety get on with what we need to do cause once the pundits and the media start getting their noises in it all just seems to go to shit.
Its better if they just leave us alone.
7 January, 2007 at 8:09 pm |
no sound
7 January, 2007 at 8:17 pm |
other than that though, amazing find. Missed match of the day and was really gutted about that, thanks to you I saw the goals. Couldnt find it myself on google video?
7 January, 2007 at 8:47 pm |
There is no doubt that Tyson will have alerted many higher level managers with his display. It wouldn’t surprise me if Pardew had asked about him after the game as a potential replacement for Darren Bent.
Let’s hope no-one big comes in for him and if a championship club comes in hopefully Nathan will prefer to stay and help us to get there!
7 January, 2007 at 9:50 pm |
Sorry Mike, no luck finding a version with sound
And yeah, Tyson was about the only name the pundits seemed to remember from the Forest team – certainly people who didn’t already know about him will now!
7 January, 2007 at 9:59 pm |
Update: With a bit of luck, a with-sound version is currently uploading, although it’s a somewhat bigger file (higher resolution)
8 January, 2007 at 9:35 am |
Right – see above for an updated link to a video on Google with sound!
8 January, 2007 at 10:40 am |
Excellent stuff.. now need to find a time when my manager isn’t watching over me to check it out