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The Manchester derby aside, arguably the most eagerly anticipated fixture of the weekend will
be at Loftus Road where this season's Championship pace-setters QPR welcome in-form Nottingham
Forest. The Reds have rocketed up the table in recent weeks and now have the league leaders and a
place in the Premier League firmly in their sights.
January 1, 2009. We were fourth from bottom when Billy Davies was put in charge of Nottingham
Forest. Such was the dreadful state of play, we were almost certain to be relegated [...]
LTLF generally has a neutral editorial policy, but the breaking news that Nottingham Forest have
terminated Billy Davies' contract one year short prompts me to put on record my utter shock and
disgust at the actions of the Forest board. Billy Davies, as previously stated by several
contributors to this site, has been the most consistent and successful manager at Forest since
Frank Clark.
Late afternoon on Sunday saw developments of the kind of speed that one simply does not expect in
the football close season. In one hurried moment, those who believed all was well behind the scenes
like myself were shot down and the rumour-spreaders given some credence [...]
If you predict something enough, odds are, eventually you'll be right. Every six months since Billy
became manager at Forest the media have predicted his exit, and now (ironically a week after the
media said he was safe) he has gone [...]
My first ever Forest post! I shall say the phrase only once: the Wally with the Brolly. It was
epitome of our sensationalist tabloid shitstorm that a phrase invented by Andy Townsend's wife was
now the verbum significatum of the national religion: football. Steve McClaren was not treated like
a failure, a man who had [.
Sometimes in football it's no contradiction To say that fact is stranger than fiction, For no
author could have ever prophesised The summer's events down on Trentside. No wonder they call it
silly season As events unfold without rhyme nor reason [...]
The word doughty means brave and courageous, an ironic fact given our soon-to-be-erstwhile
chairman's alleged timidity in the transfer market. Of course it's easy to be so flippant when it's
not your own millions being frittered away on fees and wages, but Nigel Doughty's chairmanship will
be remembered for those times when a little more bravery might have seen him achieve his ambitions
of Premier League status for the club [.
With the festive season now behind us, Forest fans all over the country, the world even, are
returning to work heavy-bellied and nursing the prolonged hangover of a period of relentless
revelry. The festive period has been successful for Forest, with a massive win over local rivals
Derby, as well as away victory at Ipswich and a point at home against Barnsley [.
Red Hughes first appeared on LTLF after the Derby game and after the effort below we've invited him
to be LTLF's official poet laureate [...]
Once again I feel like I'm writing an article that shouldn't need to be written. According to lots
of people on Twitter (and any sentence that begins with those words should never be taken
seriously) Billy Davies is currently in crisis talks with the NFFC board who intend to sack him.
Surely not? [..
Heartache should by now be a familiar emotion for Forest fans. Once again, a successful season saw
the Reds renew the flickering light of premier league hope amongst the hearts of supporters, only
for a semi-final defeat at the hands of Swansea to render the play-off dream something of a
nightmare [.
In Canada the reports after the play-off first leg said that "Nottingham Forest is (sic) tieing
zero-zero with Swan-sea City of Wales." So I arranged at my office in anticipation to watch the
second leg "streaming live" and then sat there and became hugely angry and upset and disappointed
and defiant during the game, and immediately afterwards I realised that ultimately I am happy that
I am, have always been, will always be a Forest fan [.
Stop me if you think you've heard this one before: ambitious manager seeks to resurrect reputation
and career at second tier club, also with aspirations to restore former glory; a short while into
this apparently made-in-heaven match, ambitious manager discovers that the club might not be
prepared to bleed cash in order to bolster the squad to the extent he deems necessary to secure
promotion.
I was on holiday when Billy Davies was sacked and although I, like the LTLF editor, was shocked and
disgusted that the club could treat an employee like that, by the time I had returned to my
computer he had been replaced by Steve McClaren. My anger still hadn't completely subsided, but I
decided to give the new boss a chance before I vented my spleen on this website [.
There are certain days on the football calendar when even the most level-headed, tolerant fan
allows the throes of passion, anxiety or excitement to send any sense of reason and long term
judgement spiralling out of the window to be replaced by an almost Neanderthal desperation, with
either joy or fury displayed beyond any normal boundaries [.
LTLF's betting column goes through the possible candidates and finds out where the best odds can be
found for each of them respectively.
Already this season there have been two sackings, two resignations and two departures by mutual
consent in the Football League alone, including two ex-England managers; Steve McClaren and most
recently Sven Goran-Eriksson.
Following numerous reports of the costs of sacking a manager in the press recently you would
have thought club owners would think twice about sending their current choice on their way.
Just why are so many managers in football unemployed and out of work at the moment. Could be that
the financial crisis is effecting managers too? Or is it simply because they are bidding their
time, before going back into the big time job. This article is going to look at all these reasons
and [...
