Some fortuitous camera work by webbo2604 in the Upper Brian Clough Stand (thanks to DeepingRed for pointing it out in the comments on the Match Report) gives you an early view of the Moose in action, latching on the flick Dele puts onto McKenna’s frankly hopeful lob into the box! It’s amusing to see him [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 1 Barnsley – 0 There’ll be a few people who made it home only to discover they’d missed a goal in the name of beating the traffic. I wonder if any of them also missed the probably slightly more monumental moment of Des Walker scoring his only competitive goal for the club? [...]
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It’s a shame they don’t quite show the whole build-up – but most of it, along with a few angles. Makes you wonder why Alan Smith was the man tracking Dexter, with Enrique coming across too – where were their central defence?! I’ve definitely seen plenty of those given offside erroneously in the past – [...]
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Somebody’s run is going to have to end on Tuesday. Barnsley are resurgent under new boss Mark Robins, who of course already played a pivotal role in history at the City Ground by scoring the goal that supposedly saved Sir Alex Ferguson’s career. Now, as manager of the Tykes he’s engineered a run of three [...]
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Nottingham Forest – 1 Newcastle United – 0 Billy Davies called for the fans to back the team, the fans backed the team, the team repaid the fans. A definite game of two halves, the first of which was the best performance I’ve seen from Forest under Billy. Davies opted to pack the midfield with [...]
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Like it or not, Newcastle are the team that everyone wants to beat this year in the Championship – and they’re wearing their media mantle of ‘big club in the second tier’ rather well by sitting pretty at the top of the pile at present. Forest are of course in a good vein of form [...]
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Those of you interested in ‘an Evening with Billy Davies‘ should note that the date has unfortunately had to be pushed back a couple of weeks due to Billy’s scheduling; so will now take place on Thursday 26th November. Which is good news for me as subject to checking what I’ve got on I think [...]
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Books about Clough always seem to start with the author justifying their decision to write it. The fact of the matter is, Clough was and remains a fascinating character who generates massive interest – surely that’s the only justification you need? Particularly when you’re utilising real people’s real memories to paint a charming picture of [...]
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Since I’ve had no football to watch I’ve naturally been mentally reviewing the season so far (as in reviewing it in my mind, rather than doing so with a mental illness!). Early though it is, I must admit I’ve got to concur with one of Billy’s post-Peterborough comments. I couldn’t find the quote, but he [...]
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Most of us won’t remember Tommy Capel – he was part of the Forest team of 1951 that won the Third Division South. He scored 24 goals that season from the position of inside left (I have no idea what an inside left is – but given I surmised an outside left was basically a [...]
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