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Tyson takes gloss off fine game at City Ground
First of all, this was the best game I’ve ever been to, in terms of atmosphere and drama. It had everything – goals, crunching tackles, some good football, controversy and two sets of players giving everything they’d got on a sunny August saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, there was also an unsavoury melee at the end, as... »
Match/War report: Nottingham Forest v Derby County
I think the word they usually use to describe matches like this is ‘eventful’. There seems to be no middle ground with local derbies; either they fizzle out into dull draws because players and managers are not prepared to risk upsetting their fans by losing, or, as in this case, they are breathless, chaotic... »
Introduction – Jamie Brown
Name – Jamie Brown Team – Welcome to the corner adorned in the Garibaldi Red of Nottingham Forest. First match – January 1, 1983. A 4-2 victory over Coventry. I’ll paint you a quick landscape: Within the previous five years we had been League Champions (and runners-up), double European Champions, won the League Cup twice (and lost... »











