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1865: Nottingham Forest Football Club in the Coca Cola Championship
 

Last chance

On a completely different subject – the Save Sherwood campaign draws to a juddering halt this weekend. I will not accept any more signatures after Sunday. I am disappointed that we did not get more signatures, but it was fun while it lasted. Click here to see the petition. Save Sherwood – over and out.

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Reflections

After the shocking news about the near-death of Clive Clarke on Tuesday, there was a lot floating about on the messageboards about the reaction of players, officials and supporters. I was following the match on the Internet, so all I saw was that the second half didn’t start, a little later reports filtered through via [...]

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Nottingham Forest 1 – 2 Leeds United

The line up Smith, Chambers, Morgan, Wilson, Bennett, Clingan, Lennon, Perchio, Commons, Agogo, Holt The First Half Shit. In a word. No effort at all from the players. A gentle stroll in the sun. No, that’s not fair – for the first fifteen minutes it was a half-hearted jog in the sun. Which then turned [...]

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Off-topic: Graham Poll v John Terry

So Graham Poll has gone on record as saying that John Terry’s behaviour on the pitch has eroded his status, to the extent that he should not be captain of England anymore. Maybe Poll has a point; the trouble is that all the senior England players are just the same – Gerrard, Neville, Ferdinand and [...]

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Forest v Leeds preview

Obviously this is a big match. The fans are getting excited. Someone has already suggested a chant of “How cold is it in Leeds?” (the answer being -9). Adding further spice to the occasion will be the return of David Prutton – I would imagine that he will be greeted by a mixture of boos [...]

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Campione

How long have we been waiting to say that?

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We hate …

Guinless says we don’t hate Leicester City. But I definitely disapprove of Gary Lineker. That “nice guy” image is totally undeserved.

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How exciting

The last week of August will now see two big matches – after Leeds at home in the League, we have now been drawn to play the bin robbers at home in the Mickey Mouse Cup!

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Save Sherwood – a minor, but significant victory

As the Sherwood campaign has taken over this page a little bit, I have handed over all campaigning duties to the dedicated site www.savesherwood.talktalk.net. This includes a summary of why the campaign is running, some correspondence from the club’s marketing department, Robin Hood, and the Great Bear himself, and of course the online petition. Please [...]

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The campaign continues…

Updated 2nd August 2007: I was interviewed on Radio Nottingham’s breakfast show this morning to discuss the campaign to Save Sherwood the Bear. You can listen to the interview on the BBC Radio Player; this link will take you to the start of the show, so you will need to forward by about 1 hour [...]

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