Ah, so back to the “Forest bubble will burst” bollocks.
Cheers, Bob.
Back in the day and Bob Wilson on a now unrecognisable Football Focus claimed that the bubble would burst for BC’s Forest.
How did that one work out, Bob?
A league Championship and two European Cups later, etc.
Whaddyamean we’re dining out on past glories?
And then last season, the bubble bollocks came back to bite us on the bum. The same claims were made against Nuno’s Forest as we scored an early goal, and then shut up shop.
Repeat.
All the way through until around mid-March, and then whoops. Oh dear. We’ve failed to get over the line. We would have got BATTERED in the Champions League, anyway.
What is so disappointing about proving the mainstream pundits right this time round is that it is all self-inflicted.
Forest have done a Forest and fucked it up without too much help from the outside.
We’re not Spursy, whatever that might mean. But we are a bonkers, bonkers club where some very strange things have happened over the years.
If only Nuno had kept his mouth shut at the start of the season. Two crazy press conferences later, and we are where we are.
We had such optimism and expectation at the start of this season. The Europa Conference upgrade to the Europa League was an added bonus.
And then Forest go and balls it all up, with only the club itself to blame.
Or perhaps that should be #BlameEdu - who seems to be getting somethng of a free pass right now, with little evidence to show what he actually brings to the club.
Speaking of Bob Wilson and That Championship Feeling - I’m going off on a tangent here, but the Peter Shilton biog is proving to be a bloody good read.
Sure, skip through all the L******er nonsense, and the chapter or two on the Miracle Men manages to uncover some new stories that seem genuinely new.
Even the most obsessive of Forest fans [HELLO!] can get a little jaded when the old pro’s trot out the tired old Clough tropes on the podcast circuit.
Shitls in particular has a cracking ghost written chapter on the swift decline of the Miracle Men. I love reading these stories in general about the fall of empires, football teams, bands etc.
It’s no fun reading about their rise. The dark appeal to me is seeing how it all fell apart.
And coming full circle, Forest have managed to even outdo Forest and the 70’s Miracle Men, imploding in the space of two crazy, crazy press conferences.
Bubble well and truly burst.