Sad weekend for British football as Nottingham Forest Owner Nigel Doughty was found dead in his home yesterday. He was 54. According to a statement released by the club, Doughty was found dead in his gym.

"It is with enormous sadness that Nottingham Forest announce the death of the club's owner Nigel Doughty, Mr Doughty, who was 54, was found dead earlier today in his gym at his home in Skillington, Lincolnshire.

Kenny Derbyshire: 'Hillsborough is still with me 24/7′

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Ben Arfa's return and the fine games put in by a number of Newcastle's fringe players on Tuesday night at Nottingham Forest, have convinced Danny Simpson that Newcastle have a stronger squad than last seaosn. Danny Simpson challenges Matt Derbyshire Tuesday night Certainly with Alan Pardew making 9 changes from the side that drew with Aston Villa last Saturday, [.

Hillsborough Justice Campaign show appreciation for Brian Percival's gesture

THE HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICE CAMPAIGN (HJC) have voiced their gratitude to Emmy winner Brian Percival for his help in bringing more awareness to the situation that sees survivors and families of the victims of Hillsborough still waiting for justice 22 years after the disaster.

It's an unfortunate surname for a Forest striker to sport, but a few goals will soon see that ignored! The move to sign Derbyshire from Olympiakos been widely speculated about for a couple of days now, culminating in sightings of him at the ground for the game yesterday [...] Read the original post on Through the seasons before us

It's an unfortunate surname for a Forest striker to sport, but a few goals will soon see that ignored! The move to sign Derbyshire from Olympiakos been widely speculated about for a couple of days now, culminating in sightings of him at the ground for the game yesterday [...] Read the original post on Through the seasons before us

Morning all. How about that final day, then? It wasn't enough that the season closer was an outright molestation of the senses for those immersed in all the grisly stuff; they had to try and involve the rest of us, too. Even if, for the average sit-at-home hero, it was just an exercise in making sure the part of our brain usually reserved for processing basic arithmetic, hadn't leaked out of our ears the night before in a syrupy gunk.

That was painful. Fulham were excellent, but so bad were Birmingham that the victory seemed almost cruel.

Why should I care? I think it's that about a year ago Birmingham and Fulham seemed so similar: defensively very sound, occasionally prone to lack of invention, but good enough to win enough games to stay in the league.

Newcastle United midfielder Cheik Tiote goes into the record books, although it only gives Alan Pardew a headache. It seems that Cheik Tiote's yellow card for tripping Matt Derbyshire on Saturday has gained him a Premier League record. He joins Robbie Savage and Mark Hughes on 14 bookings for the season, which is apparently the [.

Second place, eh? Righteous.

Isn't this just like Chelsea?

Send us all into the blue funk following another listless exit from Champions League. Then, you know, go out and make things interesting real interesting by climbing into second place in the league.

Earlier this week Birmingham City pulled off a major victory to book a trip to the Carling Cup final at Wembley, and now it appears the Blues are set to revamp their front line. The Independent is reporting that Alex McLeish is set to clinch a deal for Nigerian international Obafemi Martins, who has had a less than stellar time at Rubin Kazan.

OK, after two weeks off for the holidays and a hard drive melt down we're back. Luckily its been pretty quiet lately so there's not that much to catch up on.

• The Rapids sign Tyrone Marshall to a one year deal with a one year option.

I like the short term nature of the contract, but the real key to this will be the salary number (which we'll see when the union releases the salaries in March).