This is a damning stat from the BBC on Forest’s season:
“Nottingham Forest suffered their ninth home defeat of the Premier League season, their joint-most in a 20-team campaign in the competition.
They could stay up with 29 points, and a maximum of 32. Either way it'll be the lowest points tally ever by a Premier Legaue team to avoid the drop.”
Mind you, the most interesting battle Forest are having right now is with Nottingham City Council. Can’t really see Forest leaving the Temple of Sin, but if the owner throws a strop and decides to build a new stadium in Toton, that would be huge for us (but not so good for The Nest).
So the reality of their dream of getting to the Premiership is that they have to pay hugely inflated prices to watch their team lose most games, just because they lose to the likes of Chelsea! I'm sure they will be out in their droves tonight celebrating finishing fourth bottom because 3 teams were actually sh!ttier than them.
Somehow it seems to benefit us, so long may it continue.
Got to be the most boring Prem in history. City suffocating it at the top and 4 abysmal teams at the bottom, one of which will be the worst team in history to stay up.
Yeah it’s hard to believe we won’t benefit in some way from Forest charging a fortune to watch them get beat most weeks. Let’s hope we get our act together.
Gutted they stayed up, though at least I can say I've seen Notts finish higher in the top flight (15th) than a large proportion of Fword fans ever have. It's almost 30 years since they finished as high as that.... 20th, 20th, 16th and now 17th at top level since 1996.