It’s no secret that we wanted to get promoted this season. Be we the fans, the chairman, chief executive, manager or players (well, some of them!). Hell, even some of the media seemed to quite want us to do well! But yesterday was confirmed a dark and brooding piece of news that makes this mission all the more important over coming weeks.You see, dear readers, Walsall have been confirmed as winning promotion from League Two!
For those of you who have never visited, Walsall is the little-documented tenth circle of hell – so fearsome that Dante felt unable to include the fearsomely dull place to his works. This is the place where people are damned to eternal boredom and soul-destroying awfulness that could not be included in his Divine Comedy. That, my friends, is where we would have to visit next season were our promotion bid to fail.
Of course, regardless of the hellish nature of Walsall the place, there is the small matter that we seem incapable of beating them too. Even with the goalscoring prowess of Andy Impey in the side, we could only register a 3-3 draw with them back in 2004. Since then we lost and drew to them in 2005. In fact, to find a Forest win against this bogey-side, you must go back to 1999/2000 when we did the double over them thanks to goals from the likes of Freedman, Chettle and Wright at home, and Rogers and Freedman at their place.
Whilst for everyone failure to go up would be bad, now it promises to hold more dread than any of us could fear – not to mention the slightly far-fetched but nonetheless mathematically possible scenario that we could find ourselves plying our trade in the same division as Notts County next season!
15 April, 2007 at 9:35 am |
what an absolute pointless and crap article, think about winnin our 3 remaining games and lets see where we’ll be at then, if its play-offs, i think yesterday showed they can play and score goals under a sizeable pressure, a loss yesterday and we would be 4th, aim is to get 3rd at least this season, and if that means we need to win every game to keep Blackpool in 4th then so be it.
15 April, 2007 at 10:29 am |
in trying to be pretentious,you just shown your own ignorance.I think you mean Dante’s “Inferno.”
15 April, 2007 at 10:37 am |
Just cos you haven’t beaten us in the last 10 meetings.
15 April, 2007 at 10:51 am |
Dante’s Inferno is the first book of the Divine Comedy, so tis not me displaying my own ignorance
And Tom, yes, I’m aware of the “sensible stuff” – hence lightening the mood a bit since it’s six days before we next play
Sheesh. People just can’t have a bit of fun these day!
15 April, 2007 at 11:01 am |
you’re right.My apologies.I think I must still be under the influence from yesterday!
15 April, 2007 at 11:16 am |
Hey nffc….its your site mate! You can write about what the fuck you like!!
Personally, the article amused me!
15 April, 2007 at 1:20 pm |
T’was only a bit of fun born of our appalling record against Walsall – obviously the Saddlers should be rightly congratulated for winning promotion, and indeed, in the process they halted Notts’ alarming rise up toward sneaking into the playoffs!
15 April, 2007 at 1:26 pm |
Daily Mail 14.04.07 ‘Return Of Sangatte’
Yama Maradi says “I want to spend my life in Walsall”.
Somebodys hell is anothers heaven, put it in perspective.
15 April, 2007 at 1:29 pm |
Perspective is why we have the function to comment on here
15 April, 2007 at 3:59 pm |
Matt……..I saw that too. He must be coming from one hell of a shitehole to want to spend his life in Walsall.
No offence Walsallians!
15 April, 2007 at 7:27 pm |
Found it quite funny myself, not the article, just the fact that actually seems to be a Forest fan with a sense of humour!!!!!
15 April, 2007 at 7:28 pm |
Oh aye, we have to have a sense of humour – if we stay down and play you next season, you’ll see why!
15 April, 2007 at 7:41 pm |
Sure it’ll be two very entertaining games. Good Luck….. you’ll need it :p
15 April, 2007 at 10:13 pm |
Walsall are one of those teams that knock out out of cups as well – just like Bristol City in fact! Just think, next year, we’ll be able to knock them out of the cup and it will be an “upset”. Sense of humour? Well ha, bloody ha!
No, well done to Hartlepool, Walsall, Scunthorpe and all the other teams that have earned their promotions already. Also, I’m pleased for Gillingham and sad for Rotherham (our co-relegees, if that’s close enough to a word for understanding) with their differing fates. They (the first lot) have managed to do what we (twice European Cup winners, an’ all) have failed to do; although we yet could if Brizzle stumble and we win every game. (Sponsorship by Pork Farms Airlines, next year).
Anyway, my sister lived in Walsall for a while, so I am mortally offended by this article. How do you do these smily face things? is it like this?
Or this 
. I dunno. Up the Saddlers, say I; in the same way as Frankie Howerd would have said it.
16 April, 2007 at 8:33 am |
Well that’s rich – We gave you Noddy Holder and you buggers gave us Paper Lace!
Up the Saddlers!
16 April, 2007 at 9:21 am |
Haha!
I don’t think there’s a comeback for that one!
16 April, 2007 at 10:30 am |
awwww, are forest worrying about the mighty saddlers?
16 April, 2007 at 1:10 pm |
First contributor needs to chill – I personally laughed heartily at this as it pretty much sums up my feelings about Walsall!
16 April, 2007 at 1:52 pm |
Thought the article was quite funny meself. Hope you don’t go up lads and lasses, nowt against u but i just want another excuse to visit Club Medz and Hooters again next season. Had an awesome time in Club Medz, Pat the landlady was absolutely superb, she should be on the TV!
19 April, 2007 at 1:03 pm |
This is indeed an interesting blog as I’m from Walsall but support Forest – oh the irony. I totally agree Walsall is crap, but hey we gotta be born somewhere. To be honest you need to spend some time in the rest of The Black Country if you think it’s that bad as anyone who knows Wolverhampton and West Brom will vouch.
I have my own tale of torment in relation to playing Walsall. In his insightful article Nffc fails to highlight the true horror of the 4-1 bumming we received courtesy of them a handful of years ago. Imagine the scene – I worked for a local paper in Walsall and got free hospitality tickets, which included a meal, beers and a free Saddlers clock that broke the next day. Feeling quite merry and buoyant about our chances I took my seat in the VIP area (the only part of the ground not swimming in piss) and started baiting my Walsall chums. 90 minutes later I felt sick and went home to bed. I remember one of my Forest pals – who had travelled down for the match – saying that if Cloughie was dead (and he wasn’t at the time) he’d be turning in his grave. Indeed.
However, there is one good thing if we do stay down – and come on we’re doing our level best to balls this season up at the final hurdle. I don’t work for the local paper any more and so can’t get hospitality tickets.