“Cole lights Forest’s fire”

There is never any rest for the football season. Once it’s all over in May, we have a summer full of transfer talk. Abated only when we actually sign players.

Over the past few years, we Forest fans have got used to not being so active in the transfer market. Colin Calderwood’s view that the squad he had was good enough for promotion did in fact turn out to be true, but even he realised work must be done to get the squad to Championship standards.

He hasn’t messed about, hot on the heels of Rob Earnshaw’s arrival at Forest, we had Liverpool loanee Paul Anderson – who helped get Swansea promoted last year. Just last week we bought a french defensive midfielder called Guy Moussi – who’s first name is actually pronounced Ghee! – and now we’ve done better than the last three and signed up former ManYoo forward Andy Cole.

He’s in the twilight of his career, but that isn’t to say he’ll be useless. He’ll either help the forwards we have here already and chip in with a goal or two – or it’ll go the way of a certain Mr Neil Lennon, who lasted half a season before buggering off to Wycombe Wanderers!

I happen to think he’ll do well, he scored consistently for Burnley in the Championship last year, I’m confident enough he’ll do the same here.

Now, since Kris Commons left the City Ground for Derby last month, I’ve not really had an opinion one way or another. He was offered a better deal and would’ve been a fool not to take it as it would’ve set him up financially. 

Well, the inner Forest fan has surfaced, and I’ve changed my mind. The guy constantly moaned about hating League One, how he wanted to lead Forest into the championship and maybe higher, well you did Kris – did we not get promoted last year, did that not do it for you?

He claims to support Forest, word is he never did. One of the glory supporters who was frequently seen in a ManYoo top as a kid. Of course hailing from Notts he played on the ‘local boy comes home’ angle when he signed and didn’t discourage the notion that he was a forest fan.

When he finally fucked off to Derby, he said he understood the rivalry between the two clubs but it didn’t bother him. As a proper Forest fan he blatantly didn’t, but as a non-Forest fan obviously a move down the A52 was never going to have any repercussions for him. 

And then this week, he’s pictured on the Derby official website advertising their new home top. Twat. I hope Guy Moussi breaks his leg when we play Derby, then as he’s being carried off the pitch on the stretcher I hope one of Forest’s medical staff comically drops the stretcher so he falls onto his broken leg. Then to top it all off, maybe Wes Morgan can kick him in the bollocks.

I intended to be all civil about Kris, but not any more. Fuck off Kris Commons you sheep-shagging bastard.