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The takeover saga at Nottingham Forest has come to a sorry end. On Friday night, chairman and owner Fawaz Al Hasawi landed the bombshell that his negotiations with American buyers, which had been ongoing for months, had collapsed. As is the case with most of the controversies of the...

‘Let him build a legacy.’ ‘He’s only just beginning to embed his ideas.’ ‘Give him till the end of the season.’ ‘He needs time.’ Time. The issue that has split opinion among Forest fans since the early days of the tenure of current owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi. Back in 2012, in the third...

Nottingham Forest and Notts County, both recently recognised by the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame, are approaching their respective sixteenth and seventeenth Boxing Day fixtures outside of top flight football as we head towards the mid point of the EFL season. As is seemingly now a tradition, both clubs...