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The ‘I have something to say about Forest that doesn’t warrant its own thread’ Thread

FLC

FLC

First Team Squad
Just chatting with my wife about Forest, points deductions etc and I said it’s not really much fun being in the premier league at the moment “No, it was much more fun getting there” she says.
 
theloner

theloner

Viv Anderson
Today I learned Captain John McGovern was never capped by the Jocks. What in the good name of hell should I do with this information!?
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
theloner said:
Today I learned Captain John McGovern was never capped by the Jocks. What in the good name of hell should I do with this information!?
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Funnily enough, the Guardian did a piece a couple of weeks back, where they were talking about players who had won European Cups and never been internationally capped.

Ajax‘s goalie from the 1970s had won three, and never picked up a single appearance for the Netherlands.
 
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Ian Moore Gone Little

First Team Squad
Colin Addison said:
Didn't the Sweaties think he was English?
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Yup, that was about it. It was said that all of Forest’s Scottish contingent would be in the squad (for the 1978 World Cup, I think this was) and the press duly got a pic of messrs Burns, Gemmill, Robertson and McGovern in kilts (was it Forest shirts and kilts or am I imagining that?). But only the first three were picked because they didn’t realise Border was Scottish. It seems they also overlooked the veteran John O’Hare, not unreasonably perhaps, though he had still been lively enough to get away from Phil Thompson to win the decisive penalty in the League Cup Final replay!
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
Yup, that was about it. It was said that all of Forest’s Scottish contingent would be in the squad (for the 1978 World Cup, I think this was) and the press duly got a pic of messrs Burns, Gemmill, Robertson and McGovern in kilts (was it Forest shirts and kilts or am I imagining that?). But only the first three were picked because they didn’t realise Border was Scottish. It seems they also overlooked the veteran John O’Hare, not unreasonably perhaps, though he had still been lively enough to get away from Phil Thompson to win the decisive penalty in the League Cup Final replay!
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By jingo, who would have thought that John McGovern, born in Montrose, wasn’t Scottish!

That is Forest-levels of organisation, right there!
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Floodlight Friday again
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Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
Yup, that was about it. It was said that all of Forest’s Scottish contingent would be in the squad (for the 1978 World Cup, I think this was) and the press duly got a pic of messrs Burns, Gemmill, Robertson and McGovern in kilts (was it Forest shirts and kilts or am I imagining that?). But only the first three were picked because they didn’t realise Border was Scottish. It seems they also overlooked the veteran John O’Hare, not unreasonably perhaps, though he had still been lively enough to get away from Phil Thompson to win the decisive penalty in the League Cup Final replay!
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Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
Yup, that was about it. It was said that all of Forest’s Scottish contingent would be in the squad (for the 1978 World Cup, I think this was) and the press duly got a pic of messrs Burns, Gemmill, Robertson and McGovern in kilts (was it Forest shirts and kilts or am I imagining that?).
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I firmly believed then, and still do, that Border deserved to go to Argentina, but it shouldn't be forgotten that there was a contingent of idiots amongst the Forest fanbase at that time who somehow managed to convince themselves that he wasn't good enough for us let alone Scotland.
 
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T Francis

Youth Team
Otis Redding said:
I firmly believed then, and still do, that Border deserved to go to Argentina, but it shouldn't be forgotten that there was a contingent of idiots amongst the Forest fanbase at that time who somehow managed to convince themselves that he wasn't good enough for us let alone Scotland.
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Didn’t Ally McLeod, the Scottish manager, do what Southgate is going to do and take trusted out of form players like Don Masson instead ?
 
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Ian Moore Gone Little

First Team Squad
Otis Redding said:
I firmly believed then, and still do, that Border deserved to go to Argentina, but it shouldn't be forgotten that there was a contingent of idiots amongst the Forest fanbase at that time who somehow managed to convince themselves that he wasn't good enough for us let alone Scotland.
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Yes, quite a few fans seemed to want him to be a goal-scoring, box-to-box, get-stuck-in all-rounder spraying 40-yard passes, etc. Whereas he seemed highly valued by his teammates (and Cloughie) as someone who would calmly break up opposition attacks, winning the ball and passing it to someone more creative. I think he wasn’t helped by his physique and his running style, which maybe made it look a bit like he was holding back, but he could certainly hold his own with some of the more obviously physical opposing midfielders and I can certainly recall him getting under the skin of one or two of Liverpool’s so-called hard men.
 
Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
Yes, quite a few fans seemed to want him to be a goal-scoring, box-to-box, get-stuck-in all-rounder spraying 40-yard passes, etc. Whereas he seemed highly valued by his teammates (and Cloughie) as someone who would calmly break up opposition attacks, winning the ball and passing it to someone more creative. I think he wasn’t helped by his physique and his running style, which maybe made it look a bit like he was holding back, but he could certainly hold his own with some of the more obviously physical opposing midfielders and I can certainly recall him getting under the skin of one or two of Liverpool’s so-called hard men.
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Eddie Yates

Eddie Yates

Steve Chettle
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
Yup, that was about it. It was said that all of Forest’s Scottish contingent would be in the squad (for the 1978 World Cup, I think this was) and the press duly got a pic of messrs Burns, Gemmill, Robertson and McGovern in kilts (was it Forest shirts and kilts or am I imagining that?). But only the first three were picked because they didn’t realise Border was Scottish. It seems they also overlooked the veteran John O’Hare, not unreasonably perhaps, though he had still been lively enough to get away from Phil Thompson to win the decisive penalty in the League Cup Final replay!
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As clear a penalty as your ever likely to see
 
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