1865
1865: Nottingham Forest Football Club in the Coca Cola Championship
 

BBC Quotes of the Week

As a Red, I particularly like this one by new Charlton supremo Les Reed: “Ferenc Puskas might have been the original Andy Reid.” However, there are a few gems in here, including: “Scholes walks away a bit gingerly.” (Forest Technical Director David Pleat does some ITV commentary) “You’d have thought after four games without a [...]

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There’s a shock

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (chairman of Bryan Munich) is thinking of pulling out of the G14 because “Everybody in the G14 thinks only about themselves … in football it is pure selfishness that rules … there is no communication with Fifa, none with Uefa and there are too few common projects.“ I think we could have all [...]

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It’s probably ‘arris’s fault

Pssst. Wanna know a secret? I can tell you how to beat Nottingham Forest. Honest guv. It’s easy. Twenty quid to you matey. Right … first off, play 4-4-2. That puts your two strikers in the gaps by their back three. Then push your left winger forwards. And get your left-sided central midfielder to push [...]

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Grant stays

The official line, as dictated by CC.

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Diving players

I don’t for one minute think that any players will be sacked for repeated conning of the referee, but I do like the Torquay chairman’s initiative.

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Fight Fight Fight!

This seems to explain the rumours of a training ground bust-up.

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Too many strikers …

Looks like we have accepted a bid for Grant Holt. I know we have far too many strikers but this one is pretty strange. Grolt is top scorer. He is obviously talented. He (last couple of games notwithstanding) has shown he is prepared to fight for a place. But the biggest question of all is [...]

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It’s the economy, stupid!

Nottingham Forest 2 – 0 Brentford. There are some defenders, centre-halves in particular, that have a real economy of movement. Just leave a foot in to put the attacker off, a slight nudge in the back, head it clear, push the attacker out wide. Once the job’s done, organise the back line and get back [...]

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Nice one Randy

I don’t know what the attendance was last night but Randy Lerner is making sure that the same doesn’t happen to Villa.

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