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

Kids sent to learn about the big bad world…

As expected, three of our youngsters have moved out on loan. The highest profile loanee (at least in terms of first-team experience) is young Emile Sinclair, who goes to Brentford for a month, with Alan Power going to Grays and Tom Sharpe moving to Bury. Amazingly, some fans on the forum have been moaning about [...]

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The Golden Generation

I’m writing this just before half time in the England Croatia match. Everyone went on about how Sven Goran Ericsson squandered England’s “golden generation”. Bollocks. I have defended his record before (2.6 points per game compared to Alf Ramsey’s 2 per game) – but one thing he definitely did not do is squander those players. [...]

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You shouldn’t laugh but…

Courtesy of Woody on the 606 forums: I was in Sainsbury’s the other day buying some Oxo cubes. They had Chicken, Lamb, Beef, and Derby. ‘Whats the Derby for’? I asked the assistant. ‘Oh that’s our new range’ she replied, ‘It’s laughing stock’.

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A new way of working?

It may have escaped some people’s notice that the fans’ group MyFootballClub have agreed to take over at Ebbsfleet. This is an interesting concept: on the one hand, it allows fans a vital say in how the club is run, it reconnects football with the grass roots, and it prevents the club from being run [...]

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Keeping your heads while all around are losing theirs…

Great result for Forest last night – I did harbour ambitions of trying to make the trek up for the match, but unfortunately work commitments got in the way. My Dad did go and said Southend were all right, but Forest were “great”. The BBC Live Text commentary (hey, I was working, but I needed [...]

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Good on yer, Colin

According to “Red_in_Ireland”, CC had words with a couple of the idiots who regularly boo the team on Saturday: “When Commons came off and Cohen went to the left 2 numptys sitting beside me screamed at calderwood, CC told them rather loudly to F off, Then at the end of the game he shook Ronnie [...]

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Overpaid prima donnas

Nothing to do with Forest, but I like Reading’s gesture of subsidising the travel of some of their hardcore fans to an away match. The club won’t even miss £5,000, but as a gesture, it is a small step in the right direction.

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