Apologies for the late preview! Preview – Nottingham Forest vs Watford When: Wednesday 2nd December 2020. 7:45pm Where: City Ground, Nottingham Watford FC face the humungous test known as Nottingham Forest who have won two European Cups in their past (like we’ve never heard this before!). Nottingham Forest are a shadow of the club from the late 1970s early 1980s. Many Forest supporters prior to the season starting would happily have taken continuously being above Derby County in the league table up to now, little would they know that Derby would prop the table up and Nottingham Forest sit one place above the Championship drop zone. In their last outing Forest lost at home to Swansea City by the solitary goal. In that match Forest employed a 4-2-3-1 formation. A lot of the Forest attacks came via either Sammy Ameobi on the left or Anthony Knockeart on the right. Both are ‘tricky’ wingers and we all know about the exploits of Championship stalwart Knockeart. Might see him go easily down in the box on Wednesday night like some sort of theatrical villain. Forest have made a number of signings prior to the commencement of the season, notably ex-Bournemouth loudmouth Harry Arter and Aberdeen centre-back Scott McKenna. Unlike Watford FC, Forest are seemingly happy to splash some cash. The majority shareholder is Evangelos Marinakis who is also the owner of Olympiacos C.F.P. in Greece. Chris Hughton takes charge of Forest on Wednesday night following the sacking of Sabri Lamouchi in October. Lamouchi did interest Watford prior to our relegation last season. He is currently the manager of Qatari side Al-Duhail. Some interesting (or not so interesting facts about Nottingham Forest (and Nottingham). Former Doctor Who actor and fringe sporting Matt Smith used to play for Nottingham Forest youth team alongside Jermaine Jenas. Nottingham has the biggest market square in England at 5.5 acres Robin Hood was the best archer in Nottinghamshire in the 13th century until he was bested by Legolas Greenleaf. Previous Results The City Ground has been a reasonable hunting ground for Watford in recent years. In the last five fixtures there Watford have won three, drawn one and lost one. The last Forest victory at the City Ground was January 2014. Famous Forest fans: Stuart Broad, Joe Dempsie, Ken Clarke, Su Pollard and Friar Tuck. Watford had a huge morale boosting victory against Preston North End at home but whilst it is a good victory we need to vastly improve our results on the road where we have only obtain one win (against bottom club Derby) to date. Conversely Norwich City have picked up five wins on the road so far this season besting any other team away from home. We are likely to be without Andre Gray for this fixture with a hamstring injury whilst three other absentees due to Covid-19 remain sidelined. Forest will be without midfielder Jack Colback who was injured against Swansea. It will also be interesting to see what formation Ivic plays against Nottingham Forest, the 4-4-2 formation used against Preston was fruitful, but he may revert to a more defensive formation away from home. Prediction: Forest 1-1 Watford.
They are playing at home to Swansea tomorrow K.O. 1200, we don't seem to take advantage of those sort of advantages in the past, next Wednesday would be a great time to start!
Red button. The featured game on Wednesday is Sheff Weds vs Reading. I assume Reading must give them bumper viewing figures as the ****s seem to be on every week.
I’ve actually worked with two in my time, but then I do live in Berkshire. Both absolute bell ends for what it’s worth, although probably too small a sample size to draw any real conclusions.
I live in Berkshire and have also known two. Ones ok but not much of a fan, the other is a bell end though so based on that I would say 75% of Reading fans are bell ends
I used to coach a lad who is a Spurs fan,he came out with the splendid comment that Spurs were helping English football by building their new ground. I digress. He has cousins who are Reading season ticket holders. I know of no others. Not much use but that's all I can offer.
Oh, they exist, trust me on that. Lived in Reading practically all my life and the amount of **** I got at school from Reading fans for supporting Watford. Nearly everyone supported them! There were hardly any glory hunting Man U or Liverpool fans, just bloody Reading. It coincided with when they would basically always thump us (so between 2002-06). Effectively there was a Watford Reading rivalry at my school, but I was the only Watford fan in existence who knew about it! The annoying thing is, by the time we'd leapfrogged them and got promoted, I'd long since left and was no longer in contact with any of their fans, so I couldn't Lord it over them! Bastards the bloody lot of them.
Oh yeah, as regards the actual game.... I hope we win.... 1-0 maybe? Would be nice to win an away game again in our lifetime.
Although it's at a very different stage of the season, approaching this game gives me the kind of feeling I had when we were about to play potential banana skins in Wigan and Forest the last time we played them in the league, during the final stretch of the season when we got promoted. You look at Forest and consider where they were last season (just missing the play-offs on the final day thanks to a freak combination of results) and think they can't continue to be this bad, a bit like Wigan when they'd finished 5th the previous season and got to the semi finals of the FA Cup but then kept on losing at home before getting relegated. And Forest have Chris Hughton in charge so I don't expect a comfortable win, but then I thought that before the last time we played them, and we did win convincingly enough in the end, albeit thanks to Antonio (who continued to cause problems for us at West Ham) missing a sitter to make it 2-2. I feel like those games were in the 2014/15 season, that this game is a good test of our consistency, commitment to getting the job done and ability to build on a good sequence of results (yes performances haven't always been good, but we've gone five games unbeaten, a sequence only bettered since the promotion season by, funnily enough, the one last season that started the Great Escape that never was).
I suppose it is good people were following their local team, I just couldn't stand being so outnumbered. The wounds are deep, my friend. Also, given they were supporting a fellow championship team, I couldn't act all superior and claim they didn't support a "proper club" - sad times. I support Watford due to my parents - both from Hertfordshire, and started taking me from an early age, so the blame is at their door!
I think it's a bit feeble of you not to have moved back to taunt them! At least make an afternoon of it,around tea time,in a town crier role?
HMS P1ssTheLeague just embarking from her mooring on the River Chess, destination The River Trent Wed pm.
Got to be careful here, these little teams are gonna be bang up for facing our Premiership stars, hardfought 4-0 victory, our class telling in the last 20 after a competitive first 70
