Wilson wins it
Kelvin Wilson wins the Vital Forest poll for player of the season so far. Certainly fits with my first impressions of him.
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Indifference
Bye Bye Mourinho.
The only manager that has kept my attention over the last few years loses his job. I really really really want Chelsea to fail now.
Hello Gary Megson
Does anyone else find it embarrasing that they gifted us a goal and we still lost?
No news is indifferent news
Sorry I’ve not been updating recently – partly this is because I’ve got a new job (so have to work extra hard to impress) but also I’ve not been going to games and (related to this) I seem to have lost all enthusiasm for football at the minute. I’m not impressed with Calderwood, I’m not particularly impressed with the players and I’m never impressed with the FA.
UPDATE: Although four for us and five against Derby certainly helps.
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Are you sure?
Just turned on the computer and see the following from the BBC’s Live Text commentary:
0:23 GOAL – Paul Smith
Nottm Forest 1 – Leicester 0
Nottm Forest 1 – Leicester 0
Goal by Paul Smith (Nottm Forest) right-footed (low centre of goal) from right side of six-yard box (6 yards).Nottm Forest 1-0 Leicester.
Huh?
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New Feature
In the absence of any news, good or bad, I have two things to say. One – well done to Heskey – I always thought he did alright for England and it was nice to see him do well (yeah yeah, Leicester). Second, I’ve added an extremely ugly Google Calendar to the bottom of the page – showing upcoming fixtures. I will forget to keep it up to date so give me a shout when you notice stuff. It was built using Google Calendar (natch) and a fixtures file supplied by the club. I will also try to make it look a bit better as it’s really really ugly (not that this site isn’t much better).
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Don’t believe everything you read
So apparently many fans are unhappy that there was no deadline day transfer activity for the Reds, despite suggestions that there would be. This has prompted a fresh wave of “more Forest spin”, “CC is a liar” and “do the club have no respect for the fans?” type comments.
In response to that, I don’t think I saw anything directly from the club to suggest that McGoldrick or Hartson would be coming in, nor Dobie leaving. True, McGoldrick is a Nottingham boy with family here, but it appears as though first team football was the defining factor – he is more likely to start games for Port Vale than for us, which is better for McGoldrick, Port Vale and Southampton – so I don’t think it is necessarily down to Forest not making a decent offer (would you go somewhere on loan, knowing you would be fourth choice?).
The Hartson rumour was apparently down to Hartson’s tongue-in-cheek comment that he was at the Liberty Stadium to sign for Forest, when in fact he was there as a guest of Swansea City FC; The Times then (libellously) claimed that it was in fact a done deal, which as we now know, is not true. I have not seen The Times’ article, but I am not aware that it contained quotes from either Hartson, nor anyone at NFFC.
As for Dobie leaving, that rumour apparently started in the bastion of truth that is the Nottingham Evening Post – I would allege that sometimes the truth comes second on their agenda, compared with selling papers and making money.
However, the NEP did carry a quote from Smoulds: “There is no news as such – we are still negotiating. I sense that something will happen before 12 tonight.” If you look at that quotation in context, CC is effectively saying “we hope that something will happen but there are no guarantees” – given the greedy and mercenary nature of some modern footballers, I would suggest that if they don’t like the financial offer on the table, then they are in it for the money, rather than the joy of having the best job in the world.
We will never know what happens in transfer negotiations, no matter how much speculation there is in the local and national press, and I think it is a little unfair to criticise without knowing the full facts. However, I don’t mind that much – given the impending return to fitness of one or two of our crocks, the form of Sammy on the right of midfield, and the seeming emergence of Bastians, Thornhill and Sinclair, and we may not have too much to worry about, African Nations’ Cup notwithstanding.
Of course, while I have been writing this, Grant has got himself sent off, so will be suspended for a match. Doh!
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