D***y 2:0 Forest

My first visit to Pride Park on Tuesday night. Firstly, I thought it would be much bigger, secondly, how poor is the traffic access ? If you're going to build an out of town football ground, at least make it so it doesn't take an hour to get off the site after the game, and that was with a police escort out.

A pretty poor game won by a poor Derby side against an even poorer Forest side.

An appeal by the Clough family for calm before the game was adhered to by most of the 25,000 crowd, but not by Harry Potter, who got escorted away in the first half, and a steward who decided to start smashing up the advertising hoardings in the second half.

There was the usual banter between the two sets of fans.

"Have you ever been to Wembley ?" sang the Derby fans;

"Have you ever been abroad ?" replied Forest;

"You're not famous any more" sang the in-bred, webbed-toed morons to our right;

"You're not famous anyway" came the reply;

"Your teams f***ing useless" they chanted;

We just shuffled and agreed. Couldn't really argue with that.

But, irrelevant of which division we're in and which division our animal-fiddling 'friends' from down the A52 fluked their way into, we'll still be from Nottingham, and that, and that alone, makes us better.

So Derby win the inaugural Brian Clough Trophy game, which wins them this cup.









But they'll never be able to have these on their shirts, a legacy Brian Clough left to only one team.