CCC - NEW FEATURE: Team of the Week - Mick!

Well the eagle eyed may have spotted that I 'deliberately' left off Nottingham Forest from this week's fixtures so I could introduce them properly in our new feature - team of the week.

Mick's Nottingham Forest V Bristol City

So what can we tell you about Mick's choice a team with original nicknames such as Forest, Reds and NFFC. They play at the City Ground which is in the County of Nottinghamshire but not the City of Nottingam as opposed to Notts County who's County Ground is in the City of Nottingham.

Mick could have chosen them last year and if he had done so would have been paying considerably more for his curry having ended the season above Margs and Anna but below Paula's Palace.  Since then new owner's from Kuwait have come in and sacked Steve Cotterill the man who just kept them up.  After being linked with Glen Hoddle, Sven-Goran Eriksson and even Diego Maradona they announced their new iconic manager as Sean O'Driscoll, a man who had an unbeaten record at Crawley. (They never played a game whilst he was in charge!).  Mick shouldn't be worried by the new appointment says veteran Bournemouth striker Steve Fletcher (who?) who knows him as a player, coach, assistant boss, manager, friend and physio. Steve says his nickname at Bournemouth was Mr Happy. Mick hope's he'll be Mr Happy too.

Apparently O'Driscoll's coaching qualities are underpinned by his great management skills.
"He will explain things to you, why you weren't in the team, why you were doing something in training or why you were playing a certain way," Fletcher said. So Mick, it looks like you could get some straight answers if your curry is costing more than you want it to!

Their glory years were under Brian Clough from mid-seventies to early nineties. But surely the most iconic thing about Nottingham Forest is Jason Lee who in the mid-1990's gave Skinner and Baddiel the opportunity to sing 'He's got a pineapple on his head' when ever a photo or video clip of him was shown. They were the days. (No Amy - you won't remember!)