Consequence
I’ve not always been one for dwelling on the past too much. Primarily because it often doesn’t bare thinking about for any longer than necessary as a Forest fan in their mid-twenties. But cast your mind back to the 8th of February 2020. Forest had just beaten 2nd place Leeds to close the gap to […]
The Slaughterhouse Reds – A Review of ‘Garibaldi in South America’ Book
I have recently completed reading a new publication on Giuseppe Garibaldi, entitled Garibaldi in South America – An Exploration. While it was a book I certainly had a desire to read there was part of me that felt it was necessary to. At Forest, and certainly those of us that count ourselves as part of […]
Garibaldi in South America – An Exploration
When 15 pioneers met in 1865 at the Clinton Arms to found Nottingham Forest they were inspired by Giuseppe Garibaldi, the revolutionary Italian nationalist. Only the year before he had visited London, invited by Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister who admired him. In 1860 he achieved worldwide renown with The Thousand Redshirts, liberating Sicily and […]
A Little Bit Of Sunshine
‘’I don’t think the (lack of) ability of whoever manages Nottingham Forest is the fundamental cornerstone that we think it is. Not at the moment anyway.’’ Forza Garibaldi, July 2019 The feeling is new but then again it’s so familiar. It’s more hollow than usual but isn’t everything about football hollow at the […]
100 Years of Supporter Mobilisation at NFFC
Given the flabbergasting end to the season it has been suggested that the lack of supporters inside the ground was possibly one factor in our downfall. While far from the only issue and certainly not the primary reason we collapsed so badly, it’s possible that we, all of us, could have made the difference. Every […]
Come What May
I spent the weeks leading up to the return of lockdown football telling anyone that would listen that a finale without supporters was only ever going to be a few notches above meaningless. If you are expecting the next line to about how I was wrong then you are mistaken. As we await the ninth […]
From Madrid to Heaven: A Spanish perspective of the Madrid final, 40 years on
‘From Madrid to heaven’ is a common saying in the Spanish capital. Its essence is that Madrid is the last stop before paradise. If you aren’t from there, it might come across as a bit arrogant but for Nottingham Forest it rings true. Today marks forty years since the pinnacle of Forest’s miracle, the second […]
Forest Ever Forest – Q&A with Chris Broughton
For Christmas 2001 I was gifted a new Forest book entitled ‘Forest Ever Forest’. At the time I had been a season ticket holder in the Trent End for a couple of season and had started to follow Forest everywhere they went. The book would become as close to a Forest Bible as I could […]
Q&A with Bruno Martel, editor of OGC Nice fanzine QVL Dissata
Towards the end of 2019 we received an e-mail from Bruno Martel of the OSG Nice fanzine Quora Ven Lou Dissata who had learned of the connection between Forest and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Unbeknown to us at the time OGC Nice hold probably the most significant of all football clubs with Garibaldi – it was the city of […]
El Rojo: The Influence of the Original Reds
The early years of Nottingham Forest contained many notable achievements. This fledgling football club wasn’t even the first in its own city and was not an early member of the Football League but it was integral to the evolution of the game. Forest and a catalogue of dynamic individuals attached to it helped shift football […]
