Forest fall again
Today Nottingham Forest were finally relegated to League One after losing 2-1 to QPR.
I have followed them for about ten years now and there has not been much to cheer about. I missed the heady days of league triumph and Euro. I started supporting them the season after they finished third in the Premiership. The following year they were the British team who got furthest in the European competitions. How things change!
Notts Forest now have the dubious honour of being the first European title winning team to play in the third division of their domestic league. Still, at least with the stupid naming system used in English football, it won’t seem like that. First you have the Premiership, then the Championship, then League One – you can call it whatever fancy name you like, it’s still the third division…
Forest’s manager, Gary Megson, summed things up (free registration required):
There is a lot of work to be done now. If Nottingham Forest were a patient it would be very ill at the moment. There is a lot of work to do to make it better.
May 9th, 2005 at 11:08 am
Of course, Forest couldn’t just go down gracefully and quietly, gifting my Gills the three points they required for safety on Sunday. Looks like we’ll be seeing you in League One next season
June 14th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
awful season full of promise at the start but destroyed by kinnear awful preseason big players under performed and didnt prove themselves intitled to were the shirt. big players were sold and not replaced 8 million they got to save themself from relegation they would of needed to spend 2