2025/26 James Garner




Watching the replay while I work this morning, and there's a great moment.

In the second half, Gibbs-White, aka John Oates,* bundles Tarkowski into Pickford when Pickford's going up for a ball. A dangerous play as Tark, as projected by Gibbs-White, cuts Pickford's legs out from under him and Pickford goes sprawling.

Pickford jumps up red-faced and, like the Pickford we all know and love, is gesticulating wildly and screaming at the ref, at Tark, at a half dozen Forest players, etc.

Garner comes over, stone faced, not even meeting Pickford's eyes, and pats Pickford a couple of times in the chest, hard, as if to say, "there's a good lad, come on now, get it out of your system... now shut up."

This man is of a stripe to captain a club for a decade.
 
Never saw moyes so confident when asked in the post match conference yesterday about garner staying...perhaps he already has agreed to extend but not announced yet. Even with the option, 18 months is not very long, meaning you have to sell in the summer which might potentially affect the fee as then only one year left.
 
Gibbs-White, aka John Oates,*

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you'll never un-see it now.
 

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