The Nottingham Forest Sentinel
Squad11 Feb 2030
The knee: Jason Steele out for 36 days
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nottingham Forest lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
No sign of nerves from Rio Ngumoha at 21 — 7.72
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rio Ngumoha did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market11 Feb 2030
Taiwo Awoniyi raises the bar for Nottingham Forest
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Nottingham Forest heard it as anything else.
Match9 Feb 2030
Millwall end the Nottingham Forest run at 9
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Words exchanged at Nottingham Forest
Liam Cullen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match9 Feb 2030
Millwall take the points off Nottingham Forest
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets11 Feb 2030
Nottingham Forest rebuffed over Alex Palmer
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and Nottingham Forest go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Feb 2030
A row about effort at Nottingham Forest
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Lindelöf was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Anthony Wilson out for 36 days
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Anthony Wilson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Player ratings Callum Hudson-Odoi in the eights
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Justin Clarke
- The dugout Samuel Clark faces the questions