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  1. #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by forwardmagpie View Post
    Dad

    Thank you for choosing to take me to Notts as a 4 year old in 1961 (if it was only because you could watch me got to the toilet and back). I have loved every minute of it, the wins, the draws and all the losses. I have never regretted it and love the fact that through the difficult relationship during my ****age years we could still bond going to the game together and still did until you were too ill to go in the late 1990s.

    I think of you during every game.

    Lots of love Colin
    Note to self,

    Similar sentiments except that I had nobody take me to Meadow Lane, it was entirely my decision to become a Notts fan in 1970. I became interested in football, and a combination of teeenage rebellion and love for the underdog made me choose Notts over Forest. Even when they were winning European cups I never regretted it for a second. I've had some great years and some awful years but I wouldn't change a thing.

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    To a point, I knew what I was getting myself into, deciding for myself that I wanted to go to Meadow Lane and not the Sh***y Ground 3 years after they'd last won the European Cup. However, I wasn't bargaining on us becoming a lower league club for 30 years and counting.
    I could have coped with them always finishing above us had we remained, for the most part, a 2nd tier outfit.

    I honestly believed 100%, leaving Wembley after beating Brighton, that the 5 season spell in tier 3 from 1985/86 (never finishing lower than 9th) would turn out to be the absolute low of lows I'd ever have to endure and that the likes of David Campbell, Stuart Rimmer and Richard Young would forever be the worst players I'd ever have to witness in a black & white shirt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
    Note to self,

    Similar sentiments except that I had nobody take me to Meadow Lane, it was entirely my decision to become a Notts fan in 1970. I became interested in football, and a combination of teeenage rebellion and love for the underdog made me choose Notts over Forest. Even when they were winning European cups I never regretted it for a second. I've had some great years and some awful years but I wouldn't change a thing.
    It was my brother who first took me to ML. But I'm absolutely sure I would have found my own way there if he hadn't. As with you, always the underdog for me and wanting to do things a little differently, rather than just following the crowd. I suspect that's why a lot of us chose Notts. I wouldn't change a thing either and have no regrets whatsoever. Though I must admit that in the gloom of the 'Trust years", I came very close to calling it a day.

  4. #4
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    My Dad took me to Notts and my Mum to Forest, not that they were splitting up or anything, just he had vowed never to enter the City Ground, and he never did. I actively supported the away teams at Forest, they almost made me physically sick with that vile shade of red, the crowing, and that awful Robin Hood riding through the glen song. Then one of their chavs nicked my Notts hat at a County Cup final and that sealed my hatred for them.

    I still have that feeling when I see Jermaine Jenas, he's the personification of all that is wrong with Forest.

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