We need to talk about Nottingham Forest.

[EFCPaul]

To be honest even if Forest are largely crap for the rest of the season, I just don't see him letting a 7-point gap slip. That result tonight was priceless, West Ham look utterly broken and incapable of putting any sort of run together.

Said it a thousand times, he has level and there's nothing wrong with that. The firefighter who bails your club out if you bring him in with enough of the season left. I can see them finishing on 40 pts or so points then chopping him in the summer. Only way he stays is if he wins the EL which surely won't happen.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Just because there is contact doesnt make it a pen

If you look at his gloves they are not clenched so he hasn’t punched the player, his fingers are outstretched and he’s missed the ball and brushed the forest player

When you compare Barry getting booted by Saliba and VAR didn’t intervene and they did for this incident, it’s a farce

Both are blatant penalties. If you come to play the ball and mistime it you pay the price.

 

[PITA]

I think we all know we’re a medium sized club but have been surprised the set pieces haven’t been far better under Dyche and that we didn’t show far more imagination v you and Fulham.

We’re happy to stay up however we achieve it, but long-term definitely need to be playing more like we did under Cooper and Nuno.

FWIW I think we’ll drop. West Ham will
improve and the others are a long way ahead of the bottom 3

You must be feeling a lot better now.

 

[Walken]

Pretty much job done for Dyche there, a par score that will see him earn a bit of rep and no doubt a bit of cash

 

[Walken]

Just checked the highlights, it's not a pen and doesn't get given as one unless VAR is there, another example of it making the game worse. Its not like all those who cried to get VAR into the game were not warned several times

 

[Harryflashman]

Just checked the highlights, it's not a pen and doesn't get given as one unless VAR is there, another example of it making the game worse. Its not like all those who cried to get VAR into the game were not warned several times

I said exactly that to someone during the game , pre VAR that’s never a pen . I think in a VAR world in 2026 it’s probably a pen , doesn’t make it right but I feel like it’s being given almost every time .

Between the offside and that Dyche got very lucky last night but I’ll likely be enough to keep them up .

 

[Yarrgh]

They shouldn't be anywhere near the relegation teams in terms of points from here on in with that squad. West Ham are spiralling the plug hole like we were in that first relegation season - they need to really pull together and hope someone does a Leicester but can't see that happening.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

To be honest even if Forest are largely crap for the rest of the season, I just don't see him letting a 7-point gap slip. That result tonight was priceless, West Ham look utterly broken and incapable of putting any sort of run together.

Said it a thousand times, he has level and there's nothing wrong with that. The firefighter who bails your club out if you bring him in with enough of the season left. I can see them finishing on 40 pts or so points then chopping him in the summer. Only way he stays is if he wins the EL which surely won't happen.

Did have a habit of getting results when it really mattered despite being terrible the rest of the time.

 

[Gilbert..]

Did have a habit of getting results when it really mattered despite being terrible the rest of the time.

VAR bailed them out last night more than anything he did. West hams 2nd should have stood. It came off the forest defender in the build up. Game changing decision.

 

[hallamblue]

VAR bailed them out last night more than anything he did. West hams 2nd should have stood. It came off the forest defender in the build up. Game changing decision.

Yep, 2nd West Ham goal should have stood and Forest shouldn't have had a penalty either.

 

[Saint Domingo]

From 4 points adrift to 7 points clear

 

[wandyr79]

They were very lucky to get anything from the game at all. The offside is correct by the law but again context is not a factor in these decisions, did that player gain anything from being half a body offside. Without technology everybody is 100% saying that is onside, close but onside. For another topic but there should definitely be an 'umpires' call aspect on these offside decisions.

If the penalty incident was two outfield players going for the ball then it would never have been given a penalty. Gibbs White went for the ball, it was deflected and it went over his head, the keeper did the same. As said, two outfield players clash like that and take away the hand element, it is never a penalty.

 

[Drico]

Did have a habit of getting results when it really mattered despite being terrible the rest of the time.

Dyche was never taking Forest down except in certain people's fever dreams. Like Moyes, he's competent. Always has been. Like Moyes, he has a shelf-life. The irony of his success last night is that it is the beginning of the end for him at Forest. As he banishes the spectre and terror of potential relegation, fans will look for something better - and he won't be able to deliver better. Basically, his work there is done.

 

[MikeH72]

Dyche was never taking Forest down except in certain people's fever dreams. Like Moyes, he's competent. Always has been. Like Moyes, he has a shelf-life. The irony of his success last night is that it is the beginning of the end for him at Forest. As he banishes the spectre and terror of potential relegation, fans will look for something better - and he won't be able to deliver better. Basically, his work there is done.

That Forest squad was never going down in a month of Sundays, but he’d been there long enough to have dragged their fans’ expectations into the gutter to the point where they all thought they were in a genuine battle. His work being done definitely reminds me of this.

 

[Drico]

Pretty much job done for Dyche there, a par score that will see him earn a bit of rep and no doubt a bit of cash

Just seen this now - and this is precisely it. Red Adair strikes again. He'll be punted when Forest feel ready to roll the dice for something more progresssive again, but his reputation for fire fighting has been burnished once more. He will be placed back on the shelf when the time comes and will await the call, in a year or so, from somebody like Leeds.