We're still in the Champions League and the FA cup, and are 16th in the Premier League. How's your season going?
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We're still in the Champions League and the FA cup, and are 16th in the Premier League. How's your season going?
TornadoShaunUK
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More on point. I'd say our title win easily pisses over Forest's. The financial gulf between big and small clubs these days means it's getting harder and harder to compete against the top teams. Our plight this season just rubber stamps how impressive it was for a relatively small club like Leicester to take on the big boys with far bigger budgets and beat them all. Your European cup successes were more impressive of course but even then, back then there were a good number less games involved in the competition and you have the same thing where Europe's top clubs have that extra financial might these days. One title doesn't beat two titles and two European cups of course, but if you compare them on a one on one basis.. it easily eclipses either of Forest title wins just due to the financial disparity between the top clubs and the small clubs these days.
Blaarev
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Actually he should just keep enjoying them. I know I will when I'm at the old people's home watching the recorded games from 2015/16 over and over again beleiving I actually see live games. I'll be sobbing with joy every day watching Andrea Bocelli sing Nessum Dorma at the KP and Wes lifting the trophy. Happy days are coming.
Brown Nose
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Have some respect.
Notts Florist have won six Brian Clough trophies, two Bass Charity Vases and one Dallas Cup since those heady days when they won the European Cup.
The Cup they won through beating (last 16 to the final) - AEK Athens, Grasshoppers, Cologne and Malmo followed by Arges Pitesti (?), Dynamo Berlin (?), Ajax (yay heard of them) and Hamburg.
So my grandad told me anyway.
camberwell fox
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I don't get the constant animosity towards Rich and indeed Brian Clough.
Cloughie was a fantastic manager who should have been given the opportunity to manage England but unfortunately the FA don't like forthright, opinionated intelligent managers.
The only reason I disliked Forest years ago was because I was jealous of their achievements.
Surely, after 30 years + have elapsed we can park this?
Derby however....and don't let me start laughing over Cov.
Cloughie was a fantastic manager who should have been given the opportunity to manage England but unfortunately the FA don't like forthright, opinionated intelligent managers.
The only reason I disliked Forest years ago was because I was jealous of their achievements.
Surely, after 30 years + have elapsed we can park this?
Derby however....and don't let me start laughing over Cov.
Or managers who take bungs.
spionfox
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Yep, penis envy is all it is.
I actually don't mind Nottingham having worked there and still having friends there.
I've also worked in Derby but that wasn't a good experience, and don't get me started on Coventry.
Motown Fox
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So you WERE sent to Coventry then. 
Motown Fox
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Rich didn't respond but I imagine he's even less likely to at the moment as Norwich take a 3-0 lead over the Trees inside 18 minutes
camberwell fox
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Didn't it just.
Mawsley
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Because he's like the Notts equivalent of Steven and Boy Genius rolled into one, only with fewer redeeming features.
Brown Nose
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It depends what your formative experiences as a City fan were I suppose. Personally, I couldn't give two shits about Coventry or Derby. Notts Forest though, I loathe with a passion and always have done. Ever since, as a kid, friends supported them instead of Leicester because they were winning and we weren't. I found such a betrayal psychologically disturbing then and I still do now.
There is no 'sense' in being a football supporter at all. It's all nonsensical if you want to be sniffy enough about it. However, if we allow ourselves to be human and feel emotive about stuff, despising a rival is a marvellous thing. I heartily recommend it. There is no depth that Notts Forest can sink to, that won't give me pleasure. It doesn't matter to me one bit whether it is reciprocated or felt by others.
As for Clough, I cannot abide the man. An utterly loathsome drunk who sometimes channelled his bitterness into genius but mostly just went round being abusive and appalling and getting away with it.
Rich B
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Ours is pretty crap but only to be expected with the crackheads running the club.
Did you say 16th in the Prem?
Rich B
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Must be awful when your animosity isn't reciprocated.
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| 1 | Leicester | 44 | 94 |
| 2 | Leeds Utd | 45 | 90 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 43 | 89 |
| 4 | Southampton | 45 | 84 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 45 | 73 |
| 6 | West Brom | 45 | 72 |
| 7 | Hull City | 44 | 69 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 45 | 66 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 44 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 44 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 45 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 45 | 62 |
| 13 | Swansea City | 45 | 57 |
| 14 | Watford | 45 | 56 |
| 15 | Sunderland | 45 | 56 |
| 16 | Millwall | 45 | 56 |
| 17 | QPR | 45 | 53 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 45 | 53 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 45 | 50 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 45 | 50 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 45 | 48 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 45 | 47 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 45 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 45 | 24 |
