Tag: Nottingham Forest

Should last-place teams troll opponents *before* games? Who’s to say

Nottingham’s Forest’s social media team may want this one back

Trolling an opponent on Twitter can be a delightful exercise, riling up opposing fans while giving your own supporters a little extra edge.

But — and this is important — it’s an infinitely better exercise to do after a win, and it’s an especially terrible idea to do it pre-game if you are a last-place team.

That is a lesson that Nottingham Forest’s social media team learned the hard way this weekend.

Prior to Saturday’s match at fellow strugglers Wolves, Forest posted a picture of striker Emmanuel Dennis on the field at Molineux surrounded by wolf cubs with the caption: “playtime.” The post was eventually deleted, but the damage had been done.

After Wolves inevitably won the game 1-0, their social media team was ready to pull the trigger on an incredibly justified response: “playtime’s over.”

Cooper: Tweet ‘wasn’t helpful’

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper admitted what everyone already knew to be true: That post perhaps wasn’t the best idea ever.

“I was asked about it in the press conference afterwards but I wasn’t aware of it. Then I was notified about what happened afterwards,” Cooper said.

“It wasn’t a good thing from the club and it wasn’t helpful. But it’s been dealt with. The important thing is about learning from it.”

Forest has now hopefully learned that the time for riling up an opponent is after a victory, not before a game. But with one win in 10 so far this season, the next trolling opportunity for the newly promoted side may not be for a while.

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Erling Haaland scores another hat trick as Man City crushes Nottingham Forest

Haaland is making hat tricks just a thing that happens all the time

Erling Haaland is going to make scoring hat tricks boring at this rate.

Manchester City thumped Nottingham Forest 6-0 on Wednesday, with Haaland scoring three times in the first 38 minutes of the game. Haaland even managed to score one with his left foot, one with his right, and the third on a header.

Just four days earlier, Haaland had a hat trick in the second half of a 4-2 win over Crystal Palace. In his Premier League debut earlier this month, he had a brace against West Ham, and he’s now put up nine goals in five league matches since a €60 million move from Borussia Dortmund this summer. That is, per Opta, a new record for goals in a player’s first five Premier League games.

Haaland opened the scoring in the 12th minute, muscling past his marker to stab home a Phil Foden cross following a short corner.

That duo linked up again 10 minutes later after a poor Forest clearance quickly became some typically intricate one-touch passing from Man City to rip the defense open, leaving Haaland to guide a shot into an empty net.

Haaland finished the hat trick in the 38th minute as Man City began to truly show off. João Cancelo scooped a service to the back post with the outside of his foot that Foden headed back across goal to John Stones, who then nodded it to Haaland to head home from about two yards out.

Man City got one goal from Cancelo and two more from Julián Álvarez in the second half, while Pep Guardiola—presumably frustrated when Haaland went several minutes without scoring more goals—pulled the Norwegian in the 69th minute.

Watch yet another Haaland hat trick

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Richarlison had a little too much fun vs. Nottingham Forest and paid the price

No opponent will ever take kindly to a mid-game personal juggle session

Richarlison just couldn’t help himself.

The Tottenham forward had just delivered a fantastic assist to Harry Kane, who scored his second of the game to put Spurs up 2-0 late at Nottingham Forest.

With the game all but put to bed, Richarlison got the ball on the sideline and proceeded to do something no opponent was ever going to appreciate.

The Brazilian began a personal game of keepy-uppy, an action much more appropriate for a pre-game warm-up than a live match.

After a few juggles, Richarlison passed the ball away. Forest striker Brennan Johnson wasn’t going to let his opponent get away that easily, however, and clattered into the Brazilian with the ball long gone.

Johnson was shown a yellow card, a price he’ll feel was more than worth it.

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Nottingham Forest has decided to simply sign everyone

The club has decided that Premier League survival is worth almost any cost

Nottingham Forest has stumbled upon a novel strategy to ensure survival in its first Premier League season since 1998–99: just sign everyone.

On Friday, Forest confirmed the signing of Morgan Gibbs-White from Wolves, the club’s 16th – sixteenth! – signing of the summer.

Any club making the jump up to the top flight from the Championship needs to retool its side but what Forest is doing is on an entirely different level. The club’s expenditures have far exceeded fellow promoted clubs Fulham and Bournemouth combined.

This week, head coach Steve Cooper attempted to tamp down some of the attention on his club’s lavish spending.

“I hope people look into why we have made so many signings and don’t just say: ‘Forest have signed loads of players,’” Cooper said at a press conference.

“There’s been a real rationale behind it. We’ve had no choice. I don’t mind saying we’d have loved to carry on with our team of last season and made a few additions. Never going to happen.”

The club’s total spend so far this summer is just shy of $163 million according to Transfermarkt, putting it third among all European clubs when it comes to transfer expenditures.

Forest’s summer spending is yet another example of the huge financial power of the Premier League. Of the top 20 spending teams on the aforementioned list, half of them are from the English top flight.

The Premier League is set to make more than £10 billion from television rights alone in the next three seasons, easily the most of any league worldwide. Last season, each club earned £79m from those rights alone.

The club’s owner Evangelos Marinakis has made a bet that top-flight survival is worth nearly any cost. If Forest is to make this spending worthwhile, it will need to ensure this stay in the Premier League lasts for a long time.

Forest’s summer signings (so far)

  • Dean Henderson: Manchester United – loan
  • Wayne Hennessey: Burnley – undisclosed
  • Neco Williams: Liverpool – £17m
  • Moussa Niakhate: Mainz – £10m
  • Giulian Biancone: Troyes – £5m
  • Omar Richards: Bayern Munich – £8.5m
  • Morgan Gibbs-White: Wolves – £25m
  • Harry Toffolo & Lewis O’Brien: Huddersfield – £10m joint deal
  • Orel Mangala: Stuttgart – £12.75m
  • Cheikhou Kouyate: free agent
  • Remo Freuler: Atalanta – £7.5m
  • Brandon Aguilera: Guanacasteca – undisclosed
  • Jesse Lingard: free agent
  • Emmanuel Dennis: Watford – up to £20m
  • Taiwo Awoniyi: Union Berlin – £17.5m

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Golfers who love the Premier League

Find out which professional golfers support which Premier League teams.

The 2022 British Open begins on Thursday at the legendary Old Course at St Andrews, with golf’s biggest stars descending on the United Kingdom.

Many of those same players will be closely watching next month when the Premier League kicks off in England, just a short train ride away from their current location in Scotland.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at which Premier League teams some of the biggest names in golf support.

Ex jugador del Nottingham Forest fallece ahogado

Derrick Otim, ex jugador del Nottingham Forrest de la segunda división inglesa falleció ahogado en el Lago Keowee en el condado de Pickens, Kandy Kelley, South Carolina. Según el reporte del departamento forense del condado, el joven futbolista de …

Derrick Otim, ex jugador del Nottingham Forrest de la segunda división inglesa falleció ahogado en el Lago Keowee en el condado de Pickens, Kandy Kelley, South Carolina.

Según el reporte del departamento forense del condado, el joven futbolista de 24 años de edad murió ahogado cerca de una rampa para botes cuando estaba en compañía de algunos amigos.

El futbolista que tuvo sus comienzos en la academia del Nottingham Forest, se mudó a Estados Unidos para estudiar en la Universidad Xavier. Para los ‘Musketeers’, jugó 70 partidos en cuatro años, pues reportes indicaron que recientemente se había graduado en mayo de 2020.

El club inglés envió condolencias a través de redes sociales por la pérdida del futbolista a quien acompañó en el pensamiento a amigos y familiares.

Varios compañeros y algunas jugadoras del equipo femenil también se mostraron consternados por la noticia del fallecimiento del joven atleta y le dedicaron mensajes en redes sociales.

Descanse en paz Derrick Otim.

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