Notts Chelsea 2:1 Nottingham Forest
Proper Saturdays are back. A few pints in the Horse & Groom early doors and a taxi down Trentside. Fantastic.
It’s only a pre-season friendly, but still it would have been nice to put little Notts back in their place.
It’s like being in your early twenties, man of the world, been there, done that. Suddenly your 14 year old brother comes home with a girls phone number and he’s cock of the north. You give him his 15 minutes in the sun as he proudly shows off his techniques, full in the knowledge that she’ll have chucked him by text within the week and it’ll be down to you to pick up the pieces again. However, he still bangs on, boasting that he’s now the man of the house, how you’re on the slide, how he’ll soon overtake you. Enough is enough, bloody nose time.
Well, that was the theory anyway.
Delayed kick-off (for the second year running) as the sheer number of Forest fans trying to get in overwhelmed the minuscule number of open turnstiles (for the second year running !!). Indeed, as kick off approached, the Jimmy Sirrel stand filled up and the new arrivals were shepherded through to the Family Stand at the end of the ground.
A poor first half resulted in the Forest fans behind the goal ducking for cover on more than one occasion as we seemed to have left our shooting boots at home. The only significant incident occurred right on half time as Kelvin Wilson limped off. Wilson, alongside Wes Morgan, had dealt with everything Notts had offered in the first half, which to be fair wasn’t a great deal.
The second half was a different matter. Notts hit a post within the first minute, and with Luke Chambers tripping over his own laces, Rodgers went through and scored an easy opener.
Lee Hughes made it two-nill soon after, and the Notts fans were treating it like they’d won the league.
I don’t like Lee Hughes. People can discuss all they want about mistakes, punishments, serving your time, coming out and rebuilding your life etc etc, I get all that. Lee Hughes had been getting a bit of stick from the Forest fans during the game and, as is a footballers right, when he scored he came running over to celebrate in front of the very people who had been taunting him. If only he’d thought of running to the Police as quickly just after killing someone, maybe I wouldn’t think he was a massive c**t.
Lewis McGugan scored what turned out to be a consolation for the reds, although Kevin Pilkington in the County goal will feel he should have done better.
Back on the beer after the game, the VAT & Fiddle for a few, the Lion and then back to the Horse & Groom. Superb.
All in all a good day out, but Forest are going to have to get a bit more physical and make sure that having six strikers means hitting the target more often than not.
Otherwise, that spotty 14 year old upstart could soon be getting all the phone numbers.
It’s only a pre-season friendly, but still it would have been nice to put little Notts back in their place.It’s like being in your early twenties, man of the world, been there, done that. Suddenly your 14 year old brother comes home with a girls phone number and he’s cock of the north. You give him his 15 minutes in the sun as he proudly shows off his techniques, full in the knowledge that she’ll have chucked him by text within the week and it’ll be down to you to pick up the pieces again. However, he still bangs on, boasting that he’s now the man of the house, how you’re on the slide, how he’ll soon overtake you. Enough is enough, bloody nose time.
Well, that was the theory anyway.
Delayed kick-off (for the second year running) as the sheer number of Forest fans trying to get in overwhelmed the minuscule number of open turnstiles (for the second year running !!). Indeed, as kick off approached, the Jimmy Sirrel stand filled up and the new arrivals were shepherded through to the Family Stand at the end of the ground.
A poor first half resulted in the Forest fans behind the goal ducking for cover on more than one occasion as we seemed to have left our shooting boots at home. The only significant incident occurred right on half time as Kelvin Wilson limped off. Wilson, alongside Wes Morgan, had dealt with everything Notts had offered in the first half, which to be fair wasn’t a great deal.The second half was a different matter. Notts hit a post within the first minute, and with Luke Chambers tripping over his own laces, Rodgers went through and scored an easy opener.
Lee Hughes made it two-nill soon after, and the Notts fans were treating it like they’d won the league.
I don’t like Lee Hughes. People can discuss all they want about mistakes, punishments, serving your time, coming out and rebuilding your life etc etc, I get all that. Lee Hughes had been getting a bit of stick from the Forest fans during the game and, as is a footballers right, when he scored he came running over to celebrate in front of the very people who had been taunting him. If only he’d thought of running to the Police as quickly just after killing someone, maybe I wouldn’t think he was a massive c**t.
Lewis McGugan scored what turned out to be a consolation for the reds, although Kevin Pilkington in the County goal will feel he should have done better.
Back on the beer after the game, the VAT & Fiddle for a few, the Lion and then back to the Horse & Groom. Superb.
All in all a good day out, but Forest are going to have to get a bit more physical and make sure that having six strikers means hitting the target more often than not.
Otherwise, that spotty 14 year old upstart could soon be getting all the phone numbers.
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