It feels so great to have finally got back to the CCC after three years down in League 1. I'm not old enough to remember any other success we've had but it feels unbelievable to finally have something to celebrate. Against all the odds too, came from miles behind playing awful, dull, negative football but somehow managed to string four wins together right when it mattered to take advantage of stuttering teams. I've never heard such a cheer or felt the ground shake as much I did when Cheltenham scored their second goal. It's only up to the Championship and it may be a far cry from our European successes of 30 years ago but it's still incredible. It's what being a football fan is all about, so pleased right now.

 

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Yes, my brother is very happy. He is a Forest supporter. :cheer:

 

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Still time to quote the greatest British manager of all-time IMHO.

 

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

On his own success.

 

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."

On the importance of passing the ball to feet.

 

"If a player had said to Bill Shankly 'I've got to speak to my agent', Bill would have hit him. And I would have held him while he hit him."

 

"It was like a morgue in the dressing room after the game, and it's still like a morgue now. If that's what defeat feels like, we don't want to go through it again - oh, it's rotten" - interview with ITV after defeat for Forest in the 1980 League Cup final.

 

"I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard."

On dealing with Roy Keane.

 

"We talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I was right."

On dealing with players who disagree with him.

 

"At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players."

On the appointment of Sven-Goran Eriksson.

 

"I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd because that's exactly what I would have done"

On not getting the England manager's job.

 

"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much c**p talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes"

On England's exit from Euro 2000.

 

"The Derby players have seen more of his balls than the one they're meant to be playing with"

On a streaker who once interrupted a Derby County-Manchester United match.

 

"We (Nottingham Forest) would never drink the tea at Anfield. You don't know what the cheating bast*rds have put in it"

On playing Liverpool in the late 1970s.

 

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea"

On Manchester United being forced out of the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship in 2000.

 

"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls"

Referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups (although this could be out of date in less than 3 weeks)

 

"How I wish I had gone on to manage the varna"

On regrets looking back at his long and successful management career

 

"If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch." - referring to the application of the off-side law.

 

" what I tell my players about defending a lead is this: 'if YOU have the ball and you are in THEIR half'... THEY CANNOT SCORE"

 

"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine"

On the influx of foreign players.

 

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud"

On women and football.

 

"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius"

His tribute to Martin O'Neill, who used to manage Leicester City.

 

"John Robertson was a very unattractive young man. If, one day, I was feeling a bit off colour, I would sit next to him. I was bloody Errol Flynn compared to him, but give him a yard of grass and he was an artist. The Picasso of our game"

 

"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that"

On the pony-tailed former England goalkeeper David Seaman.

 

"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well"

Saying that too many managers lose their jobs.

 

"I thought it was my next-door neighbour because I think she felt that if I got something like that I would have to move"

Guessing who nominated him for a knighthood.

 

"As far as I'm concerned you can throw all those medals you've won in the bin, because you won them all by cheating" - to the Leeds United players on his first day as manager.

 

"They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job".

 

" This is a terrible day.....for Leeds United" - exiting Elland Road after being sacked after 44 days as manager.

 

"Who the hell wants 14 pairs of shoes when you go on holiday? I haven't had 14 pairs in my life"

On the contents of Victoria Beckham's missing luggage.

 

"He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's nowhere near as good at her job as her husband"

Advice for David Beckham.

 

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive"

After the liver transplant which saved his life.

 

"I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me."

 

Cloughie was a legend lol

 

Good to see a Spurs man in Colin Calderwood being behind this

Aye, I, like many others, have definiely been eating my humble pie this evening. He's certainly had his I think often deserved critics over the last two seasons but he's proven everybody wrong. Even when he came Northampton fans said he wasn't that good and they'd just got promoted with him. We've had some really dire results and at times his tactics have been baffling but I think we'll do well in the Championship. We have a really solid defence and we can play football, which is hard to do at this level as you're often playing against 10 defenders.

Cloughie was a legend lol

He should have stayed at Brighton

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anyone want Calderwood out now? :lol: :kink:

No, not now. We're all happy to eat humble pie. But I still say criticism was deserved and at times his decisions really were awful and baffling.

No, not now. We're all happy to eat humble pie. But I still say criticism was deserved and at times his decisions really were awful and baffling.

Well you just have to look at us and see that sometimes giving your manager time works sometimes :P

To be fair I think he'd had the time. He was brought in to take us up and failed dramatically last year. He spent loads of money this season, far more than any club in the division and it looked like we weren;t going to do any better. If we hadn't gone up, he'd be out...

:yahoo: for my home town!! :cheer: Really pleased for them even though i dot follow any team at all or football! :lol: But its nice to know your home town doing so well! ^_^

The only thing Nottingham are number 1 for are crimes of Guns! :o 'SHOT-tingham' Brrrrrap! :P :rofl:

I'm pleased to see Forest back up a league, they're a team I always associate with the top division so it's a start! Was disappointed to see Leicester go down at the weekend, but there you go.