Hope, Money and Sven - Tales From a Pre-Season Game Where the Result Mattered


The oldest league club in world languishing in the bottom division of the football league is taken over by a foreign consortium who hire one of the most recognisable names in the game to oversee operations promising to overhaul the team and the facilities of the club as a whole.

Sounds like a pretty farfetched movie pitch but in fact it was the pretence to an always feisty if not necessarily newsworthy friendly between Notts County and Nottingham Forest clubs straddling opposite banks of the River Trent separated by just 300 metres.

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