Summer games

There’s never any relaxing in football, players and managers may go on their holidays but football never really leaves the back pages. I’m just waiting for the day when the transfer window closes, when all of this bollocks regarding Cristiano Ronaldo can be put to bed, and hopefully Forest will have a strong enough squad to compete in the championship.

There’s been no non-activity this summer, and while there have been a few departures it hasn’t been major – Agogo excepted. I’m just looking forward to have something to listen to while i’m at work on saturdays. Classic Gold blaring out over the speakers at work just isn’t doing it for me!

I think with our signings this summer, and a comparison with the team we had when we went down (Impey, Powell, Rogers!) it shouldn’t be beyond us to stay up, which is all I want in our first season back in the championship. It’s embarrassing to hear from players talking about a second successive promotion. Nathan Tyson was spot on when he said the other week that championship survival is first priority, and anything else is a bonus. I expect most sensible fans won’t be taken in by players, and former players, claims that we can do piss all over this league and go up again. Surely we’ve learnt something from these last few years? Like keeping your expectations in check?

However, if we’re in the top three come November I’ll probably get carried away with all the excitement.

I watched the ’summer game’ yesterday, a cricket match. Only my second ever. It was good, purely because it’s the shorter version of the game. Still, it may be shorter, but it was still 6 hours or so! Notts won, so it was well worth the ticket price… (which was free)