Carling Cup

[Costanza]

Whooosh

I still don't see it but, yeah, boy is my face red.

[Coca Fola]

I still don't see it but, yeah, boy is my face red.

Work it out. 

[Costanza]

Work it out. 

I'm too busy being mortified.

[BANGKOK RED]

I'm too busy being mortified.

Perhaps not an illegitimate notion

[Coca Fola]

Perhaps not an illegitimate notion

Touché

[Langers]

Great draw. Never bben there before, should be good fun!

[westyorksnffc]

Notts Forest vs Notts County too...

'Nottingham' Forest please, or 'Nottm' Forest, but please, not 'Notts'.  Thank-you kind sir.

[leefer]

Great draw. Never bben there before, should be good fun!

Been there seven times,chased afterwards twice,one year we stopped them getting in the playoffs,think Owen missed a pen near the end for them and it was carnage,pitch invasion and i was playing dot to dot with the coppers after so i didn't get hammered.

[westyorksnffc]

Is ITV west still going? Would love to get that stupid grin off that twat Geoff Twentyman on points west.

Got bloody confusing with ITV when I lived in Swindon, depended on which way the TV aerial was pointing, but if memory serves me you had a choice of HTV, Meridien and Central South, and my flat was in the town centre, not like I was on the outskirts anywhere.

[westyorksnffc]

**DV**  No such team as Notts Forest  **DV**

 

[Notts red]

 Westyorksnffc, what's wrong with notts?

[Notts red]

Remember going there when we were in the open end  and they had the east end. Walking back to train station along side the Avon after being given a few choruses near end of match from city of " your going in the river "  The good old days !

[chalkies_shorts]

Been there seven times,chased afterwards twice,one year we stopped them getting in the playoffs,think Owen missed a pen near the end for them and it was carnage,pitch invasion and i was playing dot to dot with the coppers after so i didn't get hammered.

Swindon had one hell of a mob that day but unfortunately it was like a children's tea party compared to what the fuck was waiting for us. Their pitch invasion was a bit wank - they gave Bamber and the Fridge a few slaps and then rushed over to where we were but soon fucked off back after a few took some digs. Outside, however, fuck me that was very, very naughty.
The pubs in Old Town that evening were great - singing everywhere.

[mrverve]

The last time I went to Ashton Gate was in 2002 so definitely going in August.

[westyorksnffc]

Westyorksnffc, what's wrong with notts?

Very straightforward, when Notts County were formed in 1862, they were just called 'Notts'.  When Forest formed in 1865, we were called 'The Forest'.  To differenciate ourselves from Notts we added Nottingham, to become 'Nottingham Forest', and later Notts added County, to become 'Notts County'.  We also moved to a new ground, The City Ground, in 1898, when Nottingham was given city status, but Notts at the time, and probably up to the late 1930's were the bigger team, covering the County of Nottinghamshire, as opposed to just the City boundary.  End result, we are Nottingham, not Notts.

Ironically, and because of boundary changes down the years, Notts County now play in The City of Nottingham, and Nottingham Forest play in the borough of Rushcliffe, literally yards outside of the city boundary, but in an area now know as Greater Nottingham.

As for rivalry, they hate us (no, they're jealous of our recent successes), we just see them as our annoying little brother, they're there, and that's it, and other than when they had Tommy Lawton playing for them Forest have been the much bigger team since WW2.

History lesson over.