LET'S ALL LAUGH AT FESTER! (A match thread - Shady's Unsafe Space)

Marinakis on the socials....

“Today is a day for celebration, because after thirty years Nottingham Forest is now guaranteed to be competing on the European stage once again, a promise I made to our supporters when we achieved promotion!

With two more games to go in the Premier League, we must keep believing and keep dreaming, right to the final kick in the final game. We are extremely proud and close to Nuno and the team, and we must all celebrate the historic achievements of this season.

Everybody- coaching staff, players, supporters and including myself- we were frustrated around the injury of Taiwo and the medical staff’s misjudgement on Taiwo’s ability to continue the game. This is natural, this is a demonstration of the passion we feel for our Club.

Let’s all be grateful, passionate and keep on dreaming!”

We're playing in Europe again, in an era where it's never been more difficult to qualify. I can sympathize with your distaste as to the direction of the game, but I'm not going to be upset that our owner plays it better than any we've had in decades.

As to the SSC thing, of course we all love the man for what he achieved. The owner thought he could find someone who could do better. Then he did. It's hard to argue with results.

Ok, but in the context of their respective times, it's pretty inarguable that he's the most successful owner post Clough.

Eh? Win against West Ham and we definitely have something to play for in last game. Other results need to happen too, but we have two games for that to occur.

Big issue with that is Villa play Spurs just before their Euro final, so Spurs will be putting out a total second string team. Then they play United shortly after it - they'll be knackered and possibly drunk still. I really can't see Villa dropping any points.

I wish people would stop adding this on to every post about this season. It goes without saying.

Then you would be very wrong. Utterly disgraceful from Maranakis and potentially damaging for the club. Despite the excellent PR, "sources" indicate he is deeply unpleasant. You speak to your team behind the scenes, not in front of everyone. Nuno has brought progress and if he gets offers in the Summer, I would want him thinking what a great place the City Ground is to work rather than being a place where a vicious fucker may well try and embarrass me.

It's got blown out of all proportion by the Sky "machine" and Gary Neville who clearly doesn't like us the last few years. The media have presumed he was having a go at Nuno and that has become the narrative everyone is responding to, rather than actually responding to the facts. I took it as he was waving his arms about in frustration shouting "That referee was fucking shit!" to Nuno who shrugged and said "What can you do?". I really couldn't give a shit about how it looks. Fuck what anyone might think.

I've just come through security at Heathrow with a Forest polo top on and the body scanning chap (Arsenal fan) had a chat with me about whether Nuno was going to be sacked!