90 minutes red team play good win game.
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If it’s just Laundry anyway, it may as well be competent, right!
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Last summer Leicester signed Fatawu from Sporting B (same side as Ribeiro) on loan with £14m agreed.
He was one of their best players last season.
Also young at 20.
Maybe Ribeiro isn’t the conspiracy that people think and he was signed on his potential but hasn’t quite had his chance/settled yet.
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Why that red team? Why not a better team that plays gooder win more?
What is it that connects you to that laundry, that has you accept not the best football, not the most win? When better is available for other teams, even with red.
If it's just about the best football you (and me) have access to the full gamut of all games. I don't have to choose a mid crap level one to get over excited about.
What Nottingham forest currently are, and have become, doesn't connect me to the club. What connects me, is my history with it. It is not contingent on being able to afford mid range elite players to battle test them, to see if they are suitable for one of the best teams.
It is contingent on being able to take the same walk to see them that my father, his father, and his father before him, took to games. In modern football there's literally nothing else left for me.
YMMV.
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That's it for me, in a nutshell. If I want to watch the best football I can watch any game in the world, I can even go to much better football if I want and see it live. I don't support Forest because they are good. Obviously I want them to be good, I want them to compete and win, but if the only way to do that is to effectively no longer be Forest, because that's modern football and everyone's doing it, then supporting Forest makes no sense. And really that is what "modern football" is, it's not about club affiliation, it's about being a Premier League fan and whilst many seem happy to be that, and fair play to them if they are, I'm always going to try to keep nurturing something of the identity of Nottingham Forest because one day I think (I hope) this Premier League too will pass and we'll get our clubs back. I accept that is highfalutin bollocks to many ears, but that's how it is, for me.
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And Forest B are Notts Senior Cup winners. a 2-0 win over a Basford United side containing captain Matt Thornhill (who blazed a penalty over the bar) and former Forest U21s Kieran Fenton and Josh Barnes.
Osong, with his seventh goal in his last eight games, and Josh Powell scored for Forest. -
‘I don’t like change’.
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Because support of any team is a harmless and healthy outlet for natural human tribal instincts. I do also watch other football, sometimes for the joy of football and sometimes through the filter of a desired outcome that has a positive effect for Forest, but watching my particular brand of laundry is more meaningful because I am emotionally invested in the outcome.
I have, like I think many, arrived at the optimal place where a good Forest performance and/or outcome has a lasting positive effect on my mood and demeanour, while a bad performance and/or outcome is easily shaken off and forgotten. I can achieve this equally well regardless of the origins of the players, the amount they cost, and the name of their agent, so these things mean little to me.
My Mileage does indeed Vary.
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Okay young pup I will take you to a game when I am in town..
Chicago: Father figure.
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I'm quite comfortable with change...I manage it on an ongoing basis. I quickly get bored if there isn't some level of change. However, not all change is for good. I'm not heading down a blind alley, in the dark, where I get mugged. Just because that's what someone else wants for me.
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This is great. For you. And it's great while football (club) 'momentum' is in an expansion phase. The problem with killing the goosey thing, is there's no more egg's coming if it turns out you need them. I've done gillingham away because I was actually invested. That's not happening again....and that's because of them, not me. So by extension, I'm currently bothered about the ritual of the where, and the laundry (there were many other things that connected me, but they are gone forever now)...but the laundry bit is demonstrably quite silly. If we take away the where ritual I'm definitely a consumer in a wider market, and not a fan of a club.
If that market constricts - and it easily could (relegation, european superleague, the rise of another dominant league) then people like me are lost forever. As a legacy fan, and not a modern consumer, I am totally comfortable recognising that I am just cannon fodder to this movement. That's fine. On the other hand I'm not going to pretend it's something that it's not, or not mention it, nor am I going to celebrate it. I am going to accept it...and watch football on it's merits over watching forest blindly...down that alley.
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Can't see it passing.
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Only benefits the top six. I can.
Chicago: Hopeful.
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It's worth remembering that the problems are with the (interpretation of the) implementation, the shit referees, and the bias. Not the use of technology per se.
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Why they can't just do what cricket does, I don't know. Three reviews per team per match, called by the captain when the ball goes dead after the incident. Full audio of the review live to the stadium and TV.
