Fitzcarraldo
Ian Storey-Moore
In the immediate, we might get a few more quid for Bong now he's a premier league full-back.
In the immediate, we might get a few more quid for Bong now he's a premier league full-back.
This is me and my 2 eldest at full time. We have this memory for life…
That's the first full season I got into Forest - that Boro game was magic.I was probably about their age the last time we got promotion under Bassett. You can see the excitement on their faces, football as it should be.
Considering the amount of time before that which we spent as a yo yo club, it seems like ages since we were established in the top flight really, not in actual fact since Clough if you don't count the two seasons we didn't go down under Clark as amounting to established.
The club has (at times deservedly) been away from the limelight for far too long.
And it will be even more special for yours as they don't live in Notts and probably in the shadow of people supporting the usual NW PL teams around them...
Edit to add: there are so many overwhelming memories of that promotion season too. The 3-3 at Elm Park where Beasant was sent off for nothing and we played most of the 2nd with Chets in goal, PvH's 2 30 yard FK goals late on vs Brum, promotion vs Reading and sending them down at the same time, beating Boro 4-0 on a Sunday lunchtime kick off, Donny Rovers 8-0 away in the LC first round with a 2nd string side, amazing stuff, even that I remember all of that being 13/14 at the time it happened.
That's the first full season I got into Forest - that Boro game was magic.
As Forza Garibaldi so wonderfully put it...What has got me is the amount of people on social media that took kids, went with dad/mum or posted that's for you dad RIP.... this club is in the blood, it runs through mine well past an attendance at the 59 final, like it runs through others.... there was tears all around me yesterday up in the gods, I hugged my son and my dad and then the old boy next to me.... we were strangers before the game, by half time we were chatting, by injury time he grabbed my hand, counting down the minutes, by full time he was family.
I've done nothing today at work, not a thing
I only share that because reading the Twitter posts made me remember that the couple who took me to my first game had passed last year and some of my best mates who had got into Forest via grandparents and parents had also lost them in the past 23 years too so I had an unexpected cry/fake hayfever attack and looked forward to the game with a new perspective.
As Forza Garibaldi so wonderfully put it...
"From one generation to the next."
Even 48 hours later I can't describe how I feel, all I know is If I wouldn't have been there I have regretted it for the rest of my life.
I thought about you when I was going in the turnstiles as the guy in front had an issue I was hoping you'd got in OK and not been been jipped .Same here.
Sunday was what being a Forest supporter was all about.
Completely the same.Even 48 hours later I can't describe how I feel, all I know is If I wouldn't have been there Id have regretted it for the rest of my life.
Same here.
Sunday was what being a Forest supporter was all about.