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Monday, November 27, 2006

Forest 3:1 Millwall - No-one likes 'em, can't guess why

Another 3 points, another convincing victory, still 6 points clear at the top, it's all rosy down by the Trent. That would be nice, but it's not quite that simple.

For the first 30 minutes on Saturday, we were poor. Not just poor, but awful. Defensive mistakes, clueless humps up-field, no midfield and central defenders who looked like they'd only just met, it was not pretty. It was back to the Megson days *shudder*.

Forest fans in general aren't stupid. They like good passing football with a cutting edge, but realise that in the third division you can't play like that week-in week-out and get consistent results, just look at Crewe. We know that Neil Harris isn't good enough, we don't like 5-3-2 and we don't understand why you would want to sell anybody at the moment, let alone our top scorer. All of these gripes got an airing on Saturday.

The general consensus with Colin Calderwood seems to be that, fair play, we're top of the league by a fair margin all without our best player, so he can't be a bad manager. The flip side of this is this insistence on playing defenders in midfield, strikers who can't score and players with no right foot on the right side of midfield.

Maybe I'm being churlish, but I'm looking past the end of the season already, and while we are easily the best team in the third division, a level up and we'll be found out big time.

Another apology to Junior Agogo. Took his goal well, worked his socks off for the whole 90 minutes and appreciated the support he was given. I'm sorry for every doubting the wisdom of buying him. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

No mention of the opposition, because really, they don't deserve any. I hate Millwall with a passion. Not local rivalry hate, which is just mutual p**s taking when all's said and done, not dislike for a reason (Newcastle, long may they continue never winning silverware) but real can't-stand-them hope-they-end-up-going-out-of-business-and-disappearing hatred. Their fans complain about lack of investment by their board as they slip, almost inevitably, into the basement division. It's not the lack of investment, but the lack of decent support, driven out by the scum who make up the majority of Millwall's rent-a-mob fan base, that is contributing most to their financial troubles. Their catchment area is full of some of the most passionate people in Britain ( I should know, I lived just up the road for a while), yet their stadium is often less than half full. Why ? Because any decent football fan would have been driven away to watch football in a safer environment years ago. The one's that are left are the primeval ancestors of a primitive tribe of animals. Even at 1:0 up on Saturday, they were fighting with each other and the Forest stewards, so it was no surprise that at 3:1 down, there were more stewards / police in the away end than supporters. I won't miss playing them next season.

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