Forest fans fail to Show

By Michael Lynch
January 2 2004

Most Nottingham Forest fans will not be attending the match on Saturday due Forest recent poor performance which is down to the management.

You should all know by now that I’m a Forest fan, (well you do now) and you should also know that things aren’t all rosy down at The City Ground at the moment. We haven’t won in ages, and the chairman doesn’t have the guts to sack the manager. It’s all a familiar story, remember David Platt? Why the hell are all of our poorest managers regarded so highly with fans of other teams?

I recently went and visited a Leicester City forum for a bit of friendly banter and told them that our manager was s***, and what reply did I get? Well they all told me I was an idiot for doubting Paul Hart and that he is one of the best managers in the country at the minute. HE ISN’T, HE SUCKS!!!

You might remember last season when he did manage to get us to the first Division play-offs, but we can’t live in yesteryear- what god has he done for us trickies in recent weeks? NOTHING! To be perfectly honest I rate f******* Glen Hoddle better than ‘Harty!’

Has anyone who doesn’t support Forest play lately? The man doesn’t understand football!!! We are 1-0 behind early in the second half- play a more attacking formation right? ER ERR, not if your name’s Paul Hart. If that’s your name you will swap an attacking midfielder with a defender!

And if you’re Paul Hart you will sign whoever you can get your hands on. Sign first, judge ability second, at least that’s how I think he operates because I don’t think he could’ve mistaken Gareth Taylor for a good player, or Marlon King, or Danny Sonner, or any other signing he could make- even Platt made better signings than him! (Jonno etc.)

In fact, the only Forest fans that still hold Harty in high regard are the sadly ill informed non-internet users, and they could be the only people at the match (apart from me) with most fans online choosing to boycott the match. I will still be heading through the turnstiles on Saturday, however, as our young players need some support, it’s not their fault they were thrown straight into the first team at a club expecting big things!

We’re no longer aiming for promotion, we’re aiming to dodge relegation.