SWANSEA AWAY – Image Gallery
A 400 mile round trip represents our longest voyage of the season which made the 1,500 following a decent effort. After a rather unfortunate but nevetheless picturesque detour through the Brecon Beacons we arrived into Swansea not long after 1pm and joined dozens of other Reds and plenty of home fans inside the Harvester right […]
FOREST AWAY: Brentford, Saturday 1st September – Fan Guide
Crikey, September games are upon us already. And the first batch of games up to the maiden international break of the season ends with our visit to Brentford’s Griffin Park. It’s testament to how well Brentford have developed in recent years and how they have started in 2018/19 that this will prove one of our […]
Home. Home, where I wanted to go
I’m not actually a fan of 00s wristband rockers Coldplay, but this line – this one line – gets me every time. As the throbbing beat and repetitive riff of ‘Clocks’ builds to a crescendo, this single understated lyric soars with longing and regret. It speaks of the times your Mum called you in from the […]
Home
We wouldn’t possibly be able to count the number of times over the last few weeks where we audibly questioned what on earth we were doing. The end product we hoped would be worth the huge effort but it’s been a good reminder why we restrict these big displays to a couple of times a […]
The Quest Quest
It’s likely that at some point in the past few weeks you’ve trawled the lower echelons of your television’s channel list. It’s a phenomenon amongst fans of EPL teams I’m calling the Quest quest. Such is the disdain terrestrial broadcasters have for our beloved second tier, we’re left to scramble down in the gutter amongst E4 […]
FOREST AWAY: Wigan Gallery
We saw another few rays of sunshine in our performance and we saw plenty to be concerned about. Quite how a team of professional footballers can continue to concede from a high ball into the box within the first few minutes is troubling and frustrating. But last season that game would have ended in defeat, […]
FOREST AWAY: Wigan Athletic, Saturday 18th August – NFFC Fan Guide
We’re back on the road after three successive home games and headed to the North West to face newly promoted Wigan Athletic. Considering our own spell in the third tier some time back I have nothing but admiration for how the Latics made the most of relegation. None of this languishing or consolidation bollocks – […]
Trigger’s Broom
In what feels like the first rainy day since the invention of predictive text, my 3-year-old daughter and I take shelter in the ever excellent Nottingham Contemporary. The idea is that the gallery provide materials for children to create something inspired by what they’ve seen in the exhibitions. Among the string, fabric and lollipop sticks […]
Os Tres Amigos
I write this on the eve of our first home game of the season; optimism hardly dented by a creditable point at the weekend. As an England supporting Forest fan it’s been a glorious Summer of optimism and renewal – rekindling a sense that anything is possible in football and, yes, sometimes even my team(s) […]
Bristol City Away Gallery
At somewhere around the 40 minute mark I leaned towards the ear of the friend sat next to me and said ‘This is like watching Forest’. It looked like a team that hadn’t really played much together which, of course, was exactly what it was. The second half is hopefully a better glimpse of what […]
