What a difference a month makes

March 28, A Forest side turns up at Doncaster and plays so badly that even the official Forest website has to acknowledge we managed to produce exactly no shots on target in the whole 90 minutes. Unsurprisingly, the calls for the manager's head were wide-spread.

11 points behind Carlisle with 7 games to play left even the management admitting that automatic promotion was now unachievable.

Fast forward just one month, today, April 28 and not only have we witnessed a Forest-esque decline in fortunes from the team at the top of the M6, we're now within just one point of finishing second.

We produce a better result than Doncaster and at least an equal result to Carlisle on Saturday and we're back up, something that seemed impossible some short 31 days ago.

Irony heaped on irony means that, as last season, Yeovil at home could again be our last game of the season. It would be nice to stick one over on them for the car crash we had to witness last year. Not that I'm still bitter about that or anything.

I think we'll do it, but no doubt I'll let the nerves get the better of me in the mean time.

But, and there is a huge but, there is the nightmare scenario.

Forest win on Saturday, Doncaster fall short and we finish second, job done. There is still the spectre of Leeds and their unsporting behaviour demanding their points back. Leeds can argue all they want that they had already had 10 points taken off them at the end of last season (when it mattered not one jot) and that this season they've played within the rules, but the fact remains that without cheating their creditors, they wouldn't have been able to buy Uncle Tom Cobbly and all to maintain their promotion push, that the rest of the teams played the whole season knowing where they stood in relation to the second biggest team in the division and, to cap it all, they signed an agreement to say they wouldn't fight the judgement.

Sure give them the 15 points back, then don't give them their golden share next season. See how Kenny boy likes that.

Because you know what, there's not a single true football fan in the country would want to see Dirty Cheating Leeds get promoted over Forest.

Not one.