• Notts County’s Whitaker And Jatta Lead Late Surge To Hold Off Struggling Tranmere

    Sam Bunce and Charlie Wood Notts County kept their automatic promotion hopes alive by edging past Tranmere Rovers 2-1 in an undeserved victory at Meadow Lane. The hosts struggled to find their feet as Tranmere dominated much of the proceedings. A late flurry of more promising chances saw Charlie...
  • Emma Hayes Linked with the AFC Wimbledon Job – Why Did this Cause Such a Stir?

    Rachel Roberts At the start of the month, AFC Wimbledon were on the hunt for a new manager, after Glyn Hodges left the club by mutual consent. Managerial replacements are by no stretch a rarity in football, but this particular one caused quite a stir. Wimbledon, currently 19th in...
  • Bury Football Club (1885-2019)

    On the 27th August 2019, Bury Football Club were expelled from the EFL, becoming the first team since Maidstone in 1992 to meet this fate. The decision came after a series of failures by both the EFL themselves and owner Steve Dale to safeguard one of England’s oldest football...
  • Fulham or Aston Villa: Who is better positioned to stay up in the Prem?

    Since parachute payments were increased for the 2014-15 Premier League season only one out of four teams promoted as playoff winners have stayed up – Huddersfield this season. The other three have all been relegated with point totals definitively behind the magic 40 point mark. Given the relatively poor...
  • Cash “looking forward” to next season under Karanka

    Midfielder Matty Cash says Nottingham Forest have a big future under Aitor Karanka, and the pair spoke recently about how the remaining games of the current campaign can be used to build a strong promotion challenge in 2018/19. Speaking ahead of Saturday’s trip to face play-off chasing Sheffield United,...
  • Notts approach derby with “fire in the belly but ice in the mind”

    Derby day is one of the biggest in any fan’s calendar, but with Notts County and Mansfield Town just three points apart in the League Two table and the fight to get into League One heating up, this Saturday’s clash between the two East Midlands clubs is going to...
  • Darikwa takes chance and Brereton shoulders increasing burden – Karanka on positional competition

    Aitor Karanka believes that 18 year old striker Ben Brereton is “a strong character” who will cope with added responsibility as teammates Daryl Murphy and Apostolos Vellios struggle with illness and fitness to provide viable options upfront for Forest. Brereton’s situation contrasts to that of many other positions in...