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It's still listed as a case that is ongoing on De Marco's website
https://www.blackstonechambers.com/barristers/nick-de-marco/

In case any of you missed it

1 minute ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. The new arrival to my top-three-hated teams are losing.

Only 15 games into the season and Sheffield Wednesday have already had 5 red cards

Fulham's Lookman with a 99th minute panenka penalty miss at 1-0 down
That's got to sting a bit

37 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Bamford's turned from one of the most wasteful 'top' CFs in the Championship (8.9 shots per goal) to one of the most lethal in the Prem (3.8 shots per goal). Quite remarkable to be honest.

Proof that the Premier League's a tinpot league and its top strikers wouldn't hack it in the Championship

102nd minute penalty for Barnsley at Bristol City today
Can't have been many later goals in this league, can there?

Polish media reporting that Forest missed out on Grosicki by 21 seconds

8 minutes ago, Ted McMinn Football Genius said:

Was there another Red card after the whistle?

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

I thought he had two. Well one and a half as Newcastle had a team stuffed with multi million pound players. 

Paul Jewell did as well as that.

6 minutes ago, GenBr said:

Well Hughton isn't in that group either is he? He managed promotion with the most expensive side ever assembled in the Championship  with Newcastle and then again with Brighton. As far as I am aware he hasn't got anyone else promoted.

Our own Jim Smith got 3 teams to promoted to the top tier.

Yeah, Hughton has two. I was asking because I was hoping that there would be an overwhelming lack of managers managing it 3 times with 3 teams and so that precedent would suggest it's unlikely to happen with Hughton. 

How many managers at this level have managed 3 different promotions with 3 different teams? Warnock has, obviously, but I can't think of anyone else.

Real interesting article on the Athletic about the end of Lamouchi's reign at Forest

The bits about Marinakis in here make the "Mad Mel" stories look absolutely trivial

4 minutes ago, Mick Harford said:

Is this a new one? I cannot keep up.

What is Forest's obsession with signing the Portuguese knock-off versions of great Brazilian footballers?
2018/19 they signed Pele
2019/20 they signed Tiago Silva
2020/21 they signed Cafu

You know, I'm starting to think Roy Keane might have had a point last week when he said Liverpool were being a bit sloppy

Remember when everyone was saying what an insane game Leeds 1-1 Man City was yesterday?
Seems silly after today

Only the best teams concede 4 goals in one half away at Villa Park

Now that that boring load of rubbish is over, we can get to see some exciting football in Newcastle vs. Burnley

Imagine having no points this season
Could never be my team

Frank looks to have taken inspiration from us today

4 minutes ago, Abu Dhabi Ram said:

Mac 3... clearly some of our fans know nothing. I guarantee if he came in now we would not just click like last time because the foundations are not there. Clough  took years to build that that team and it irritates me that Mac gets so much credit for it. Yes he did a great job tinkering with tactics, spotting what Clough perhaps didn’t, but the bottom line is that it was not his team. 

2 minutes ago, Coconut said:

"he turned us around after Pearson"  will be coming soon.

..but the Pearson squad was merely underachieving, and a better quality squad than the one we've currently got (excluding injured players and those not fit to play for weeks)

I think if we're in a position comparable with a position McClaren previously joined a club in, it's his season at QPR, i.e. reducing wage bill, limited transfer budget, relying on the academy, FFP restrictions. I actually think he did a better job there than he is credited with, but he did lose his first four games by a 13-2 margin, and got sacked after a run of 1 win and 10 losses in 15 games.

2 minutes ago, David said:

I've only got us down for 20 over 21's

Roos, Marshall, Ravas

Clarke, te Wierik, Davies, Forsyth, Wisdom, Byrne

Bielik, Shinnie, Evans, Holmes, Rooney

Lawrence, Jozwiak, Ibe, Jozefzoon

Marriott, Waghorn

I'm also including Shonibare, Idem and Hector-Ingram, since they've all been given squad numbers since the initial squad number announcement. The latter two are both 21, but aren't 21 by the EFL's definition.

50 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

I was gonna say this seems crazy with clubs having so much difficulty selling in this market and the introduction of the squad cap.

Aren't they at 40 or something? That's 15 players they're not allowed to register ?

If one takes their first team squad to be all players given a squad number, plus the three players over 23 under contract who have not been given squad numbers, their total squad stands at 37 players.

EFL rules state that "under 21" players are exempt from being included, with their definition of an "under 21" player being a player that is not on loan from another club and was born on or after January 1st 1999, so that means Loic Mbe Soh, Alex Mighten, Brennan Johnson and George Shelvey aren't included in the squad list, but that still leaves them with, at present, 33 players to fit onto a squad list of 25. 

Doing the same with Derby, we have 30 players given squad numbers, plus FloJo makes 31, with Max Bird, Louie Sibley, Morgan Whittaker, Lee Buchanan, Jason Knight, Jordan Brown, Harrison Solomon and Ola Ibrahim all not counting towards the squad list, making a squad of 23.

Knowing Kepa is the most valuable goalkeeper of all time makes me feel like we were all a bit too harsh on Ben Hamer