With 20 minutes of the EFL Championship season to go, Nottingham Forest were in the playoff spots. They had a 3 point and 5 goal cushion over Swansea City in 7th place. Then 6 goals went in across 2 games and everything fell apart. Matt from Forza Garibaldi and Sean and Steve from Bandy & Shinty try to make sense of it all and help each other come through the other side of a dreadful night of football. It’s good to talk.
In this episode we bring together three of the four founders of Bandy & Shinty as Sean Hockett, Phil Juggins and Steve Wright discuss the games so far, since the Championship returned to action, and the developing identity of Nottingham Forest under Sabri Lamouchi. We also talk to Sean about his artwork that has been a feature around the ground since the restart and how it helps to connect the players and fans at a time when we can’t be there to support the team.
In episode 5 of the podcast, Simon Bristow, David Marples and Steve Wright discuss the return of Championship football as Nottingham Forest prepare to play Sheffield Wednesday in their first competitive game for 3 months.
David Marples and Matt Oldroyd discuss the @NFFC40 Twitter event, what it’s all about and what to keep an eye out for as we head towards a big weekend in the history of Nottingham Forest.
We catch up with Danny Rhodes, the author of Fan, a semi autobiographical novel that hinges upon two major events in the Nottingham Forest psyche – the Hillsborough disaster and the death of Brian Clough. We talked about writing, growing up as a Forest fan in the 1980s and how football and the fan experience has changed over the years.
Episode 2 of The Clinton Arms brings together Steve Wright from Bandy & Shinty, Simon Bristow of Our Glorious Banners and Harry Fish from Forza Garibaldi to discuss the ongoing situation with football being suspended and take an in depth look at the candidates for this season’s Player of the Year.
Welcome to this new project brought to you by the people who created Bandy & Shinty, Forza Garibaldi and Our Glorious Banners. We put this podcast together in the isolation created by Covid-19 and hope that it will be a small oasis of football for all the Nottingham Forest fans out there.
We hope that you enjoy this pilot episode. Please do give us feedback via our Twitter account and keep the conversations going there too. We hope that it will be possible to safely return to the City Ground before too long but in the meantime stay home, stay safe and join us in The Clinton Arms for some Nottingham Forest chat.
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