We’ve covered the second tier’s January transfer window winners - now for the losers…Nottingham ForestThe Tricky Trees may be routinely sweeping aside the opposition with the sort of free-flowing football any neutral fan would be happy to pay good money to see (or at least they were until Saturday’s defeat by - of all teams - Derby), but there’s a potential fly in the ointment: the thinness of their squad, particularly by comparison with their main promotion rivals ourselves and West Brom. Should the second half of the season bring injuries and loss of form, as it surely must, they…
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DVD review: The Damned United
The Damned UnitedDirected by Tom HooperColumbia Pictures, 2009, £19.99David Peace’s work has been a modern day staple of visual adaptations for the past year or so and the author is one of those writers whose books can often be found on the shelves of those who, as The Daily Telegraph might term it, “don’t read books”, an explorer of yoof issues to cast alongside Irvine Welsh, Howard Marks and Nicholas Blincoe. In truth, and without wishing to denigrate those authors, Peace’s ambition extends beyond this. His GB84 in particular is an exercise in wilful complexity, and the earlier Red Riding…
Plot strands coming together
As we have hinted at in our new series Championship Letters, the resemblance between a league season and a great work of literature is marked, and the form with which the easiest parallels can be drawn is the long, winding novel, full of unexpected developments and richly portrayed characters. Bearing this in mind, the events of Tuesday January 26 would appear to constitute the beginning of the home straight for most “readers” of the second tier – it was a day pregnant with significant happenings and telling results and one can begin to see the varying strands of a complicated…
How soon is now?
“How soon is now?”, asked The Smiths. As the dust settles on West Brom’s consecutive clashes with their two closest rivals at the top of the Championship, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle, we can ask much the same question with regard to promotion to the Premier League.Let’s start with the division’s form side, Forest. Not only are they winning consistently, but they’re doing so with a remarkable panache and flair. The debagging of the Baggies on their own turf was exquisite but in truth not much superior to the sort of performances they’ve been turning in routinely against lower quality opposition.Billy…
We’re Nottingham Forest…unbeaten away
Billy Davies is beginning to stretch credibility with the insistence that his Forest side aren’t yet ready to challenge for promotion, as the Reds sent out another clear statement of intent by brushing aside the much fancied Baggies 3-1 in last night’s Sky televised clash at the Hawthorns.Sky’s broadcast team had certainly taken notice of Forest’s recent run, devoting nearly all of the pre-match build up to Davies and giving the shortest of interviews to Robert Di Matteo, perhaps a touch unfair considering his side have been a fixture near the table’s summit all season. But this was an occasion…
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