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1865: Nottingham Forest Football Club in the Coca Cola Championship
 

Fabio, Marlon and Billy Davies: news roundup (UPDATED)

Fabio Capello thinks Trevor Francis was the best Englishman to play in Italy. Trevor Francis thinks Fabio Capello is the new Brian Clough. Is Marlon Harewood misunderstood? Not by me – I think he’s great and one of my all-time favourite players. Finally, was Billy Davies due for the sack even as the Sheep were [...]

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News Roundup: around the country

Viv Anderson reckons Mr Clough is better than Alex Ferguson. But we all knew that anyway. Dexter Blackstock is surprised that QPR let him leave (in fact he sounds quite annoyed about it). Brian Laws is now looking at Dele Adebola and Grant Holt is League Two Player of the Year. Dirty Leeds are looking [...]

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News Roundup: Earnie almost quit, Billy calls for calm, Sir Brian was “virtuous”, Shilts has been forgotten

While Billy Davies calls for calm heads, much of the attention this week has been focused on Sir Brian, what with the release of “The Damned United” and ITV’s “Clough” documentary. He may not have chosen to go for a drink with him, but John McGovern unsurprisingly has fond memories of working with the great [...]

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News Roundup and an apology

Firstly, the apology – we’ve not had many updates recently, either here or on Twitter. Basically, this is sheer volume of work in our day jobs, but we will try and step up and keep the posts coming. Since we last spoke, with our very downbeat and negative podcast, we’ve seen a bit of a [...]

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News Roundup: New players … maybe

Every Forest fan’s favourite alces steps up his return from injury. It’s just like a new signing. Or something. Michael Tonge and Ched Evans are linked with us (the latter following a successful loan spell at Norwich). It would be just like signing a new midfielder and a new striker! Meanwhile, Grant Holt hits a [...]

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Respec’

Two fine examples of respect from Forest men past and present… In the NEP, talking about Joe Garner, CC namechecks Perchio first in his list of experienced young players: “…When you add him to the experienced young talent that we have here, the likes of James Perch, Kelvin Wilson, Wes Morgan, Julian Bennett and the [...]

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