Andy “Andrew” Cole is no longer a Forest player, having had his contract terminated by mutual consent, some days after the rumours of such things happening surfacing all over the place. Having failed to score in eleven appearances (five starting places) the striker has agreed with the powers-that-be at Forest to go their separate [...]
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It’s inevitably interesting observing things in the build-up to the first meeting between Derby and Forest in competitive fixtures for a while. How elements of both sets of support start to puff out their chest with bravado and lose all sense of rhyme and reason, and the inevitable soundbites from players from the two sides [...]
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… of course, aside from no longer daring to hope for a good result at the weekend, something else of importance will have come to pass. The good people of Nottingham will have their statue of Brian Clough, which is due to be unveiled by his widow Barbara on the 6th November. The location being [...]
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Crystal Palace – 1 Nottingham Forest – 2 We’ve only gone and bleeding well won a game! Sod’s law for me, I didn’t even get to listen to it as I’ve been out of Radio Nottingham range, and without Internet until now; so it’s been a rather tense evening of old skool updates by occasionally [...]
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Talk of protest is in the air, which isn’t really surprising. Let’s face it – we’re in a really rather shit position, Smoulders said to judge him after ten games, and he’s had a bit extra and still we’re in a shit position. It’s tough, and I can understand why groups of fans are anxious; [...]
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It would seem so. The Guardian is hinting at it, that it’s a Doughty decision rather than a Smoulds one; and other usually reliable sources point to an imminent departure once the legalities and formalities have been tied up. I do hope that doesn’t mean we are paying off his contract! Whether this is linked [...]
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There are whisperings as yet unconfirmed that he is gone, y’know. If it proves to be true it is an eerie case of history repeating itself, with last season’s shenanigans in signing Neil Lennon only to have him go walkabout and eventually be released to join Wycombe on a free transfer. Whether this is unhappy [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 0 Cardiff City – 1 I tire of writing these reports; I wasn’t going to bother ’til tomorrow – but then I decided tomorrow was a new day, so I’d do it this evening after all. A shake-up from Smoulds saw Perch in for Chambers at right back, Lynch replacing Bennett at [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 1 Ipswich Town – 1 “Ready for a trip to the theatre of misery?” quipped my companion as we set off for the City Ground this evening. Football does rather feel like a chore rather than a pleasure these days, it has to be said. But duty is duty, and I took [...]
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Brian Clough rarely escapes my thoughts, this week he’s rarely escaped both the local and national press. Today in the Evening Post, for example, the forthcoming statue unveiling has been given a rather exciting prelude – that of Barbara Clough, widow of Brian, proclaiming Les Johnson’s effigy of Clough to be ‘just perfect‘, high praise [...]
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