Today has been rubbish. Okay, I did have a bit of amusement listening to Notts County getting dumped out of the FA Cup by Havant and Waterlooville – it’s a bit bittersweet as I don’t really mind Notts, and have a huge amount of time for Charlie McP – so perhaps this result will spark the powers that be over the river into giving him a bit more funds to get the players he needs to make Notts a bit less rubbish.
But anyway, I was looking for some Stuart Pearce related information earlier today whilst listening to Colin Slater getting increasingly irate, and I found this gem of a photo – I seem to recall the Evening Post selling prints of it at the time. Unforgivably I can’t remember the game the picture is from, but it encapsulates two of my favourite players in such a fantastic pose – I figured I’d share it with presumably other bored Forest fans this weekend!
Of course, it’s the big crunch match with Walsall on Tuesday. Well, it’s not really a big crunch match, but we all know that through some voodoo alchemy they never seem to suffer defeat at our hands – and we’re all hoping that is about to change with the Reds on decent form going into the match.
Alas, the Saddlers too are on good form – they’ve played Northampton both today and last week, registering a win in the league and a draw in the FA Cup this afternoon. Prior to that game they were unbeaten in five – so in seven games they’ve not tasted defeat. We haven’t been defeated for six games, so we both go into the game with a similar record - it will be interesting, that’s for sure.
In the meantime, however, I’m going to reminsce about the times when perhaps I took having the likes of Clough Junior and Psycho in the side for granted – sure, I might’ve missed out on the Forest side of the late seventies and early eighties, but in the context of recent seasons I still count myself as pretty damn lucky to have witnessed players such as these.
Filed under: Thoughts
I’m reading some very disturbing rumours about Forest sharing the new stadium with County. This would be terrible! I know that the council would want this, in fact, the council want the clubs to eventually merge and probably see this as the first step towards it, but from a Forest perspective we cannot allow even a ground share to happen. Its one thing moving away from the City Ground but to move to a stadium that we wouldn’t even truly be able to call our home is for me completely out of the question. It would rip the soul out of our club. Why would County want to play in almost completely empty stadium anyway?! Even the thought of having a stadium without red seats makes me sick!
Has anybody else heard anything? Is this really on the cards?
I’ve really only heard the odd bits and pieces, the Forest Matchday site had something about it – I really can’t see it happening.
Notts already play in an almost completely empty stadium as it is!