One of my great away days was incognito in with the Forest for that gorgeous 1-0 we got c/o Michael Kightly back around this time in 2009.
That was the game when I knew we were going to do it; such a sweet feeling, and so sweet too that it was Kightly who got the goal. It was hard, very hard...
My boy's the same age and it's the same message to him each time we watch a game; mind you, I'm an older dad [55] and grew up with us in the top flight and 2 x League Cup Final wins! But the point remains the same - he thinks it's entirely normal to have us in Europe / Cup semis / high league...
No lack of effort and commitment, and some very good play too at times; shame to see it coming to nothing, not just in this game but others too. This will, you'd imagine, be our story for the remaining games. I'm certainly not looking forwards to the Burnley game, which I think we'll lose and...
Well the Beeb seem to know how things will unfold:
"Aston Villa will reclaim fourth place with a draw at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers later on Saturday."
I think they're done myself; heads gone, to borrow a phrase.
If they do somehow still manage to grind out promotion after all this, that would be one hell of an achievement on their part in my book.
It's a shocking collapse which beats our own shocking collapse IMO; but they don't have Forest / Derby as the ones overtaking them. That was the agony for me - of all the clubs to overtake us, it just had to be our little neighbours. It still gives me late-night sweats now.
I watched the last 15 mins of the Foxes game just now and they looked out for the count. They're done IMO, and it's been a couple of months to forget for their lot.
I'd like to see Ipswich & Leeds come up, and Southampton or Norwich thru the play-offs. Anyone but the Boggies for me really...
I was chatting with some Cov folk after the game on our way back to our parking [Premier Inn - cheap & close, and a new place to park for me and one I'll continue with], and they were quite dismissive of Simms despite his goal yesterday. One of them said despite that, or maybe because of that...
No VAR narrative being spun at all, no sour grapes either, and full acknowledgement in my post that Cov deserved it etc; just an astute observation from a young 'un that it was a lot of injury time and it came mostly from that VAR stoppage.
What my boy said as we trudged out of Molineux was actually bang on the money - if there hadn't been that absurdly long VAR delay, there wouldn't have been all that injury time and we'd probably have been walking out feeling lucky but happy instead.
That VAR situation was bonkers, and great to...
Our previous two games watched together to this one were the 1-1 @ Luton and the 0-6 @ Brighton; our poor lad is under no false impressions :eek:
Very nice cats though :tongueclosed:
He was utterly dominated today, poor fella; but the food served to him is what Championship defenders have for a snack - long balls "on the 'ead son" / balls-to-feet with a ring of defenders around him. Not sure what one can expect in that case TBH with such a young & relatively physically small...
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