Both the Mirror and News of the World ran claims that Forest were ready to approach Stuart Pearce to become Forest manager, despite overlooking him previously. Given that Doughty has already publically backed Smoulders (I know, I know, the dreaded ‘vote of confidence’ and all that), and Pearce is currently still managing the England U21 [...]
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Right, I’m going to try to be deliberately philosophical. One of the curses of my nature is that even when I’m hit by hurt or rage, I’m usually reasonably quick to calm – and after hauling my arse out of bed well into the afternoon after spending the wee small hours gauging opinions around the [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 2 (4) Yeovil Town – 5 (5) (After extra time) I’ll start with the pleasantries. Congratulations to Yeovil Town, who thoroughly deserved to progress, arguably given their better performances in both legs – but certainly on tonight’s showing. They now go on to a date with Wembley with either Blackpool and [...]
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I feel like having a bit of a moan. I haven’t done that in a while, so make no apologies for it - now, I know I used the W-word in the title, that is – of course – under the strict understanding that there is no in-built assumption in there we’ll be going there, however, despite this [...]
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Well it all went according to plan in the away leg – a very defensive performance but a 2-0 win despite only having two shots on goal, both penalties. Combined with our two league games about the Glovers where we have emerged victorious without conceding a goal, Yeovil will certainly not be adverse to the [...]
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Today was the official unveiling of a statue of Brian Clough in Middlesbrough’s Albert Park. The statue was presented with a flourish by Barbara Clough to an assembled crowd in the park this morning, many of whom had also taken the chance to admire the new exhibition dedicated to the former-Middlesbrough legend in the close [...]
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Since there seems to be a reasonable groundswell in agreement with the notion of returning our midweek games to Wednesdays, and thanks to some great ideas from commentors, I’ve set up a petition where those of you who agree with the idea can quantatively lend your support. Assuming it is indeed an issue that resonates [...]
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Surely not! Well, undoubtedly not – but someone with a wicked sense of humour has created this horrific mix of their antics on the rather embarrassing ‘Hardest Away Days’ series on which the mad German and his foul-mouthed other half appeared. It’s kind of funny, but kind of embarrassing too! Of course, it’s not the [...]
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I love getting emails from people who read the site, as well as your supply of comments on my blog entries of course. This one from Rob was so convincingly written, rather than form it into my own words I’ve just reproduced it verbatim – I think he makes a very good point, so I’m [...]
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Moving swiftly on, we’re up to fourteen on the list of decidedly dodgy Forest music. This track is provided to us by Geoff Blott and ‘the Nottingham boys‘ and certainly has a more interesting sound to it than many of the tracks we’ve seen before in this little series. If there was to be a [...]
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