Nottingham Forest v. Midtjylland FC

Sean Dyche it is then.

I would have shuddered at that 6 games ago. Now it seems a much better option than what we have currently.

Thankfully I have been out on the lash and can pretend this never happened.

I wento bed at half time.

Did we not win then? It does feel a bit SSC-Leicester last season, but with less shit individual players. Same net outcome, though.

I'm in camp Dyche-Woan-Stone to get us not relegated.

I am also wankered. Fuck Forest.

I am awake and sober and really fucking annoyed. Fucking lego bastards.

Not their fault. Your focus should be more on the Vegemite Lardarse

Classic Paul Taylorism amused me:

When they are chanting for a manager to be sacked inside a month, “faithful” wouldn’t be the word I’d use.

Spurs would have had the second biggest playing budget in last year’s Europa League. He did ok to win it but it’s not a great achievement, especially after they binned off the league in the second half of the season. Even the year they finished 5th would have been broadly in line with their budget.

Other clubs - Mickey Mouse leagues, not really relevant for where he is now. Unless he, somehow, turns this around he’s done at this level.

Definitely their fault and their drum.

It should have been a special night, first European game for 30 years under the lights. The Forza display was great and I even liked the dimmed lights and fireworks. It was great, but inside you also felt it much potential to be really shit. And it was. It was the most Nottingham Forest of evenings and it’s been the most Nottingham Forest few weeks.

It was pretty horrible in the Lower Bridgford towards the end. We were poor, it clearly isn't working, he probably won't last much longer, but I'd forgotten how unpleasant it could be in a Forest crowd. Maybe it's another aspect of that winning mentality, but it was no fun to be stood in.

Phillip Billing was immense though, I guess a fair chunk of last night's crowd weren't there for the Championship games against him, but he was outstanding, physically and technically dominant in midfield.

See, I can't stand this revisionist sh!t over the owner. It's not his first major fcuk up and most of the things he takes credit for were actually other people.
Let's not forget, he took over more than eight years ago, in May 2017.
He was the owner for Sabri's Stoke choke and the man who appointed Chris Hughton and saw us bottom of the Championship with one point.
SSC was not his appointment - it was the American, Dane Murphy (who the Ego later fell out with), who pushed for Cooper.
Cooper then took us up with fcuk-all owner support (Cooper was appointed post-transfer window and only got one January signing IIRC) - despite the club now claiming how it was the owner who led us to promotion
(And let's not forget the owner never bothered coming Trentside until we went up - he was only seen at Arsenal and Chelsea away in the cups and then taking the acclaim of the fans on the Council House balcony)
Cooper kept us up that first season despite the owner's interference (witness just throwing signings at the manager and expecting us to be top six because of it).
The only on-field thing he got right was bringing in Nuno. And he fcuked that up in the end by interfering again.

And that's not touching on all the embarrassing things he's done which have made Forest a laughing stock to the rest of the football world.

I can't see Marinakis sacking the man he personally appointed for a few games yet. The media's narrative of him being quick on the trigger doesn't stand up when you consider the time he gave Sabri, Hughton, Cooper and arguably even Nuno when it looked like they should go. I've thought for a while that this is the first appointment he's made with his heart not his head, and it'll hurt him a lot to admit he got it wrong - and he might also be wondering if he made the wrong call on the Nuno v Edu stuff. So I think he'll stick for a while in the hope it turns around.

But the fans last night were atrocious and words were exchanged around me between those who hate the very thought of Ange and those who think he deserves a bit more time. I don't know if he's right for the job but I don't get the hatred. Forest fans have always been fickle, and even Clough used to say that Derby was much more of a football town than Nottingham, but last night took fickle into new territory. Just an observation, but most of those around me who were booing were not the regular season ticket holders.

Personally, I'll always try to support my team and by extension the manager. It takes a lot to get me to boo (Megson, Yeovil away and MK Dons in the hockey stadium) and I'm not there yet. I'm going to Newcastle on Sunday. Not looking forward to it.

Pleased you wrote that as I even googled when he took over last night to check I wasn't mis remembering his tenure.

The good things are the random exceptions for me, the mean is he's a bit of a shit owner.