We all have our cross to bear. Nottingham Forest & NZ Warriors
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Justin C retweeted
🚨 GOOOOOOAL! 🥅 Cunha opens the scoring for Forest.
Delap makes it 2-0, assisted by Schlager.
Their rock-solid defence has completely shut down Haaland and Doku 🧱
#NFFC #ManCity #PremierLeague
🌳 Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City. The City Ground ⚡
This ground’s atmosphere hits different from the first whistle 🔊. Forest’s faithful will roar nonstop, turning every 50/50 duel 🥊, every crunching tackle into momentum. Steve Cooper’s game plan is crystal clear: compact shape 🧱, disciplined marking, shut down passing lanes, and lie in wait for lightning counterattacks ⚡. Their low block is engineered to frustrate elite sides, kill rhythm, and force careless turnovers.
But City do not come here to sit back 🩵. Guardiola’s roster is loaded with elite technicians built to unpick tight deep blocks. Haaland lurks inside the box, predator mode activated 🐺; Doku’s explosive burst can stretch defensive lines out of shape in a blink 💨. Quick one-twos, subtle rotations, threaded through balls — every sequence aims to crack Forest’s defensive structure. City live for opponents who invite pressure, recycling possession 🔄, probing patiently until a gap opens up.
Pure Premier League contrast 🇬🇧. The underdog home side riding crowd noise, grit and chaos against serial champions with unmatched quality and tactical range. On their day, Forest can make life absolute hell for top teams. Yet City have mastered hostile away venues, knowing how to weather scrappy fights and grind out results. One clinical finish 🥅, one costly defensive slip, and these three points are decided. Who wins this tactical chess match tonight?
#NFFC #ManCity #PremierLeague
Justin C retweeted
Man City have won all 7 games this season and they're in first place. There's a real chance they get relegated anyway, and by the Premier League's own math, that would be them getting off easy.
A couple years ago, Nottingham Forest got docked 4 points for losing £34.5M more than the rules allow. Last month City were found guilty of passing off £830M of their owners' money, about $1.1 billion, as sponsorship deals. Charge City what Forest paid and it comes out to 96 points.
City have cleared 96 points in a season exactly twice. One of those was 2017-18, which happens to be one of the nine seasons they were just found guilty for.
And Forest is the gentle comparison. Everton got hit with 10 points for going £19.5M over, which got knocked down to 6 on appeal. Use that rate and City are looking at around 255 points. If you won every single game for a whole season, you'd get 114.
Here's how the scheme worked. From 2009-10 to 2017-18, City booked £949.9M in sponsorship money, and the sponsors actually paid £119.2M of it. The owners quietly covered the rest, so about 87% of City's "sponsorship" came from the guys who own the club. The panel said that without it, City would have posted the biggest one-season loss in Premier League history back in 2009-10.
To be fair, the comparison is rough, and City's lawyers will hammer it. Everton and Forest got caught overspending, and the panel never put a single overspend number on City. It did say City would have blown past the limits "by a very substantial amount" if they'd reported honestly.
Then there's the cooperation piece. Forest got 2 points taken off their punishment for "exceptional cooperation." City got found guilty on 34 counts of not cooperating, and the panel said several of the club's key witnesses gave false evidence.
City won three league titles in those nine seasons, including the 2011-12 title Manchester United lost on goal difference and the 2013-14 title Liverpool lost by two points.
The appeal is supposed to be heard by January, and the league can't hand out any punishment until it's done. So there's a real scenario where the team sitting in first at Christmas gets relegated in May.
If the panel prices this anything like it priced Forest and Everton, relegation is probably the best deal on the table for City.
Reporting for England duty with your boots in a carrier bag from the club shop. Priceless 🫡👌 #nffc
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Justin C retweeted
Apparently this still isn't enough for Morgan Gibbs-White to earn an England call-up... 😬
Justin C retweeted
This is Nottingham Forest fan Ebby. He travels from Germany to England for every single match, home and away.
Unreal dedication. 👏
Justin C retweeted
Forest have every right to be frustrated at VAR Peter Bankes’ intervention and the review of Neco Williams’ goal-line effort against Spurs. It wasn’t a clear and obvious mistake by ref Craig Pawson. PL match centre declared that “VAR checked the referee's call of goal to Nottingham Forest and determined that Williams handled the ball immediately before scoring and recommended that the goal was disallowed”. Yet even after repeated viewings it’s hard to tell whether it was handball or not. So not a clear and obvious error. Goal should have stood.
ProRef, the artists formally known as PGMOL, promised at the start of the season that VAR would be more light touch, more in keeping with the original intention of intervening only when a clear and obvious error. Largely, so far this season, officials have kept to that “minimal interference, maximum benefit” mantra. Consistency of application was always the concern - as highlighted at the City Ground. #NFOTOT
Justin C retweeted
Every 90 minutes, someone in the UK takes their own life.
Every home matchday, Nottingham Forest Foundation will open a 'Tricky to Talk Matchday Hub' at the City Ground, helping fans to access trusted mental health and wellbeing services in a safe, non-judgemental environment.
Justin C retweeted
A love letter to Nottingham Forest, the city, its people, the memories & everything it means to belong.
For everyone who has ever stood on the terraces, watched from the pub, passed stories down or simply called Nottingham home.
This is for you.
#nffc #spokenword @NFFC
Every time I walk past, same time, same place, there's the same guy playing to the same industrial estate wall. Like ground hog day. Everyone has their own little happy place in life. I'm glad he's found his 🫶
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Justin C retweeted
How bloody amazing is this ❤️🇳🇴
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Shaun Ryder and Kermit for adidas SPZL x END.
Long-time influences on Gary Aspden and the adidas SPZL project, the Black Grape founders are photographed by Jamil GS against Manchester's evolving skyline. The campaign celebrates a city, its culture and the people who continue to shape it.
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Our END. Manchester and Newcastle stores will be receiving a dedicated launch moment on the day of launch. Stay tuned for more details.
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A remarkable run comes to an end.
Congratulations on a wonderful Championships, Arthur Fery.
#Wimbledon
