I think he started coming when Yevoli got promoted to division 3, with us already there and he got little bit excited about the prospect of watching his lot play at the WFCG against the likes of Nicky Eaden and Gino Padula.
Understandably dizzying times for the Wurzels.
Who was there, when (I think) we were 3-0 down in the rain and they are singing ooh arr it's a massacre
Megson.
Speaking of Yeovil, 18 years ago today we beat them 3-2 to get promotion.
Look at you living in the glory years…
Fucking hell. I know that I have a better than average memory of those days - probably because I used to drive up and therefore not drink - but I absolutely remember sitting in the BC upper frantically texting Mum and a Forest fan friend on my pathetic non-smart phone Alcatel something or other with the battery running out whilst the scoreboard told us that other scores were in our favour.
I also remember leaving the ground straight away at full time - I think I wanted a combo of a drink, a ciggy (yes - I smoked back then) and a wee. I was first back to The Stratford Haven. I bought a pint and had a choice of seats in the beer 'garden' (yard). A few minutes later Dubya arrived. I think he had the same triple mission as me. As we sat there drinking, smoking, cackling, punching the air and generally celebrating some miserable turd a few yards away said 'we don't deserve it though do we?'
I can't do justice in typing form to the way Dubya invited him to fuck the fuck off.
And he did.
Having claimed a good memory I'm now wondering - I think I stayed at a WB b+b that night and I think we had a 5 a side tournament the next day?
Obviously none of you can confirm part 1, but I'm pretty sure we did the 5 a side the next day?
That might've been the year that the London 'Massive' managed to beat Tricky's TET for tat 1-0 with Russ smashing one in to earn the chant of 'fat Fernando Torres, you're just a fat Fernando Torres'.
Not started by me, by the way.
I did enjoy those Talkback tournaments. Even if we did play an ambitious 0-0-4 formation. And we never lost a penalty shootout...
I have the opposite memory of that game to you. I was in A Block with fella and maybe Muswell and I was drunk and fucked up on coke before it was fashionable, and it was an absolutely intense experience. I have a feeling I ended up on the pitch but I'm not quite sure.
Absolutely no recollection of whether the tourney was the following day but I still vividly remember that goal, it was against the Academy kids that tricky had brought in and we were already about 5-0 down with a minute or two to go. There was absolutely no skill involved, I just randomly found myself 1 on 1 with the keeper from about 10 yards out and I lashed at it in hope and somehow accidentally hit a screamer into the top corner. I tried to pull my shirt over my head in celebration but the shirt was too small and my gut too big and so I just ended up running around screaming showing everyone my beer belly.
They were special times.
No idea if the tournament was the day after the Yeovil match but I know ‘the goal’ wasn’t against Tricky’s team because I was in that team and we were all watching on the sidelines. The goal and subsequent celebration were the highlight of the day.
I was at Camelot theme park with the blind kids charidee I was involved with at that time who always held their AGM at the hotel there over May Bank Holiday weekend.
I recall bemoaning this at the time on here and some wag (I think Dubya) suggested I bundle the blind kids into a minibus, watch the game and leave them all outside the Brian Clough stand, telling them its a really long queue for the rollercoaster.
Also, Leicester went down that day. Ho ho.
Somewhat changed tone in there after this weekend’s results.
Nah, still wankers on there think it is because clubs only try against them.
That's just standard fan griping. They are no longer even trying to construct scenarios where we lose all our remaining games, they draw with Arsenal and then win their last two to finish above us.
It’s actually a pretty remarkable relegation race. Over the last four games, Spurs and Wham have 7 points each, us and Leeds have 10. We’ve all had one ‘easy game’ (Burnley or Wolves) but that really is Euro-chasing form all-round.
Spurs tally maybe flatters them a bit.. but still.. someone will probably go down on 40+ points and can count themselves unlucky for giving it a proper go over that final phase and just seeing everyone around them do the same. The four of us were cut adrift and we’ve caught right up to the pack.
I laugh at the idea of West Ham getting 7 more points but, TBH, it wouldn’t go too much against the form table if they did. Fuck.. if Arsenal decide to bottle it and Leeds check out then everything is still up for grabs. The highest relegated points total prize is in play.
Said this before but what's remarkable about this season is how even the division is. The top two are well ahead and the bottom two are well behind but the remainder is just form, injuries and the extra burden of Europe. West Ham will probably be relegated, sack everyone and slag Sullivan off but the reality is that they aren't that much worse than teams in the top half.
Look at it this way - in 22/23, the gap between 6th and 17th was 26 points; 23/24, it was 27 (if you disregard our points deduction); 24/25, 28; this season it's currently 15. I'm pretty confident that if we weren't in Europe, we'd be top half.
Not if we still had that Aussie chap in charge, my confidence tells me.
There's an underlying serious point though. Many of the big clubs feel that they have established sufficient advantage that they don't have to strive to be the best football club that they can be, but rather are managing the brand for other objectives. So there is an opportunity for clubs who use their available spend to try to do that (still uphill though, given the income differentials), and actually try to score goals in games (rather than spanish dance around 'managing' them). Hence the rotation of 'little' clubs doing well, getting into europe and falling back due to squad depth, and another little club taking up the opportunity.
I've said this repeatedly before, and it's only (a small) one of the reasons that I find modern 'ship football to be a fraud, primarily there to mug off punters.
Or no Ange.
Or some combination in the front three that could have scored 8 in 20-odd games.
Or Nuno was chill.
But I'm happier with Vitor than either of the last 2 coaches, and if we'd played better sooner then we'd have kept one of them.
