Fans really aren't happy. 0 wins in 6 with a tough trip to St James on Monday our time.
If they cop a hiding there it's probably curtains already. Serves Marinakis right for sacking their best manager since Clough.
If they cop a hiding there it's probably curtains already. Serves Marinakis right for sacking their best manager since Clough.
FRANK CLARK, FOREST'S BEST MANAGER SINCE CLOUGH - AND FOREST'S KIWI CONNECTIONS BEFORE WOOD:
Forest's best manager (most successful) since Clough is not Nuno.
It was Frank Clark, Forest's manager 1993-96.
Frank Clark (footballer) - Wikipedia
Clark was a regular in Clough's legendary team that won the English title and the European Cup in the late seventies and succeeded Clough as manager in 1993 after relegation.
He took them straight back up and then finished third in the Premier League in the 94-95 season and took them to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup the following season where they lost over two legs to an awesome Bayern Munich side with Klinsmann etc.
"During the 1994–95 English football season, Nottingham Forest F.C. competed in the FA Premier League. Surprisingly for a newly promoted side, Forest finished in third place, behind Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United: no newly promoted club has achieved as high a finish in the Premier League since..."
Captained by Stuart Pearce with Stan Collymore banging in goals galore along with Dutch international Brian Roy, Erling' s dad Alfie in defence, England international Neil Webb...
NZ connections: Scot Gemmill, a key player in that side, finished his playing career at the ill-fated NZ Knights in the A-League. 26 Scotland caps, one of Scotland's best players of that era, went on to play for Everton and Leicester.
Gemmil has been Scotland's u-21 coach for some years (still in charge for the current Euro u-21 qualifiers) and applied for the All Whites job last time round - in my opinon, one of the better candidates.
NZ connections with Clough's Forest sides:
- Brian Clough's sister immigrated to NZ and spent most of her life in Nelson.
Mysteriously, most of Nelson United's imports in the national league in the 1980's were from the Nottingham area, and Clough sent two Forest 19 year-olds on loan to NZ in 1978. That may well have been due to his sister living here.
- Two players from Clough's great Forest sides played in our national league on loan as teenagers: defender Bryn Gunn played for Eastern Suburbs in 1978 - and went on to win the European Cup in 1980, coming on as a sub !!!! 131 appearances for Forest under Clough.
The other Forest player on loan at Eastern Suburbs was striker Steve Elliott.
"Eastern Suburbs greatly improved on their 1977 league performance to finish in the top four. In the case of Suburbs this was largely through the importation of English players Bryn Gunn and Steve Elliot from Nottingham Forest. Elliot made the most of his stint with Suburbs, scoring 17 times in just 12 matches."
Elliot never played many first team matches at Forest but played a season in the top tier for Luton and scored 125 goals in the lower leagues over 436 matches in the Football League through to 1990.