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You can probably add not flagging for Bortoleto's damage too.

I really enjoyed watching us last year, thought it was exciting to move the ball forwards so quickly and with so much success, he'd done an incredible job with what we had. Our one sale was for probably the player that made that work most in Elanga. I think any change is coming from above, Nuno wanted Adama Traore who would have been a good short-term option for playing the Elanga role who wouldn't have taken much bedding in, but refused to be sanctioned from Edu who's the new main man across Marinakis' whole network of clubs. It's clearly annoyed Nuno as he's said in his press conferences about the relationship being worse than it was.

There is clearly something wrong with Nuno at Forest at the moment. There's an attempt to evolve our style to be higher pressing and more possession, it worked against Brentford (but they were missing so many players hard to know just how bad they were in Andrews first game) but was absolutely shocking yesterday, nothing at all of note created, tonnes of crosses which kept getting cleared, no real plan B or use of our new expensive subs, and a shambolic capitulation at the end. That performance, how weird he's been in the press and added to the collapse at the end of last season there's a lot more fans who are questioning whether he should stay than there normally would be just from the results. Personally think there's too many strains on the relationship between manager, owner and director that it's hard to see it being repaired and him leaving at some point is looking inevitible, in which case you might as well not delay it. With a season in Europe where we're more likely to struggle with the Thursday-Sunday routine, you couldn't have picked a better three fixtures to start the season with - 4 points is a very poor return from them.

12 - 14/07/2003 Jane's Addiction - Just Because Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-02-05-06-08-09-12-16-18-21-25-28-31-37-40 (18 weeks) US Rock band Jane's Addiction released a couple of albums in the late 80s and early 90s before splitting up and properly reformed for a 3rd album in 2003. That, and its lead single Just Because, both became their highest peaking chart entries across most of the world. They weren't a band I'd ever heard of before but this return got a fair amount of airplay at the time and was of a sound I was quite into and took over from Metallica at the top. They're the first One Hit Wonder to appear, as any further releases I either didn't care for or didn't hear. Whilst this does sound somewhat of its time it is something I've continued to listen to over the years unlike some of the songs from 2003 appearing here, and still something I enjoy a lot. Having said that, they're not a band I've ever felt it necessary to listen to more of, with Been Caught Steeling (their biggest hit from their early days) the only other song of theirs I'm familiar with. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Coral - Pass It On, Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow Both of those are ok songs which I definitely would have enjoyed more at the time than I would do now, though Maybe Tomorrow definitely an improvement on Madame Helga. Other standout songs to reach the top 10 in these three weeks were Goldfrapp - Strict Machine and more from Sean Paul who'd end the year as one of my most successful acts, Breathe with Blu Cantrell was another UK number one I enjoyed quite a bit.

Glad you like, still do really like that Dandy's track - Hotel Yorba definitely another of the Stripes songs I did really like, but apart from one more to be discussed in a later year there's not a lot I love. I did play By The Way a lot, there were definitely better songs on it that could have been released, Dosed definitely one of those - also loved Minor Thing.

01 (04) White Lies - In The Middle (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (03) FKA twigs - Perfectly (02) (06) 03 (01) Self Esteem - Cheers To Me (01) (07) (2 weeks) 04 (14) Wolf Alice - White Horses (04) (03) 05 (11) Tame Impala - End of Summer (05) (04) 06 (03) Cerrone feat. Christine and the Queens - Catching Feelings (01) (10) (1 week) 07 (16) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (07) (04) 08 (05) Wolf Alice - The Sofa (05) (06) 09 (09) Soulwax - Run Free (09) (06) 10 (06) HVOB - Abyss (04) (10) 11 (12) The Hives - Legalize Living (11) (05) 12 (07) Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussuf Dayes - Lotus (01) (12) (4 weeks) 13 (08) Mount Palomar feat. Karla Chubb - L'Aliment (02) (09) 14 (13) Hot Chip - Devotion (13) (05) 15 (21) Blankenberge - What You Know (15) (03) 16 (10) Panic Shack - Pockets (07) (06) 17 (26) Ebbb - Manners (17) (03) 18 (18) Sigrid - Jellyfish (18) (05) 19 (27) Baxter Dury - Schadenfreude (19) (02) 20 (22) Jamie XX - Dream Night (20) (04) 21 (29) Little Simz feat. Yukimi - Enough (21) (03) 22 (15) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (01) (18) (7 weeks) 23 (30) Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (23) (02) 24 (19) Young Fathers - Lowly (11) (09) 25 (32) Idlewild - It's Not The First Time (25) (02) 26 (17) Jayda G - The Shiver (06) (07) 27 (41) Sprints - Beg (27) (01) 28 (43) Wisp - Black Swan (28) (01) 29 (37) Alison Goldfrapp - Strange Things Happen (29) (02) 30 (24) Ethel Cain - f*** Me Eyes (17) (06) 31 (25) TTSSFU - Call U Back (25) (04) 32 (44) Ninajirachi - Infohazard (32) (01) 33 (20) HAIM - All Over Me (03) (10) 34 (23) Model/Actriz - Vespers (07) (13) 35 (46) The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (35) (01) 36 (28) Car Seat Headrest - The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man) (04) (15) 37 (**) SG Lewis feat. London Grammar - Feelings Gone (37) (01) 38 (36) We Are Scientists - What You Want Is Gone (28) (08) 39 (33) For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows (02) (13) 40 (31) Fred Again... feat. Skepta & PlayBoyMax - Victory Lap (15) (07)

11 - 30/06/2003 Metallica - St. Anger Chart Run: 02-01-01-03-04-06-06-07-10-12-16-19-21-26-28-31-35-36-37-40 (20 weeks) A number one which was very much influenced by my peers at the time. Metallica were one of the most loved bands for so many kids who'd developed an interest in rock music, a new album by them was going to be absolutely huge, and I couldn't help get caught up in the adoration of its title track as it became their 4th and final UK top 10 hit. St. Anger is fine, not something I'll turn off but not something I'll likely ever put on. My liking of rock music had probably peaked at this point; new bands I rarely got into and classics of the genre haven't ever been something I've been bothered about investigating. A few older Metallica songs I'd put on over this, but it's still one that brings back some happy memories of good times. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Songs kept from #1: The Darkness - Growing On Me The Darkness were another rare climber, moving 08-06-05-02 for me as they exploded into the public's consciousness. In the UK at the time, the big single was Crazy In Love but 04-06-10... was all it could manage for me which is a bit of a shame in hindsight.

His inflexibility regarding the formation is quite frankly baffling. It's a 4-3-2-1 squad if ever I've seen one. A midfielder ahead of (any) one of those three attacking signings should have been the priority.

How can a 70m striker take the 10th penalty against a league two side? Embarrassing!

10 - 23/06/2003 Foo Fighters - Low Chart Run: 01-02-03-05-06-07-08-09-13-17-23-25-27-31-34-37-40 (17 weeks) Beginning what's very much a Rock section of chart toppers now, with the first act to appear for a second time, Foo Fighters. I spoke about how much I loved and listed to One By One in the first entry, Low was another great song from it and was always a likely contender for them to reach the top again, and it wasn't exactly a period of stellar releases they were up against. If I listed my favourite Foos tracks now, it is largely a list of their biggest and most known songs - Times Like These, Everlong, Learn To Fly, The Pretender etc. but Low would join them in the top 5. It's a song I adored at the time, and I don't feel it's any less great now - an incredibly underrated track. 2025 Rating: 9/10 It was an all new top 2 and those songs would swap places the week after...

09 - 09/06/2003 The Thrills - Big Sur Chart Run: 01-01-03-03-04-06-09-12-14-16-21-26-29-33-38 (15 weeks) The Thrills were all over Radio 1 at the time, their upbeat jangly indie-pop sound very much an 'in' thing at the time, along with the likes of The Coral and Starsailor, and Big Sur was a catchy piece of summer fun which I enjoyed a lot. It's a fine song but not much more. It does its job well but they're very much an act that I left in the mid-noughties. They had a run of fairly minor UK top 40 hits in '03 and '04, and most of them I charted too, including two of my more forgotten top 5 singles in Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) and Whatever Happened To Corey Haim? Big Sur is certainly a cut above the rest of their output, but a slightly 'meh' entry in this list. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Songs kept from #1: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Universally Speaking Linkin Park entered at #3 in the same week with Faint and stayed there the week after, with Electric Six's follow-up Gay Bar also in the top 5. I guess what I take from this period is that there was nothing released that I'd be particularly loving and reviewing more than two decades later.

Hard to argue with that lineup. Think Perez reputation has been enhanced in the last 6 months and some of his confidence will have been restored. Always feel a brand new team are better off with drivers with at least some experience, and not sure who they might have got that would be better. Ricciardo said he wouldn't go and I don't think he'd be any better anyway, Schumacher is often talked about returning but I've no idea why. KMag? Zhou? Get Yuki out of Red Bull perhaps? Not sure any would be an improvement.

I'm glad it has its fans, it really is fantastic, definitely one of their best. Singles wise Coldplay were excellent for that whole period, they never missed my top 10 until Charlie Brown. I did love X&Y a lot at the time and listened a lot but I can easily discard half of it now. Haha no not really, had some good times posting on there! Definitely be a lot of that kind of thing - it wasn't until 2004 when it became such a dominant force that I got so into it, was definitely more whatever was on Radio 1 playlist from 2001-03.

08 - 19/05/2003 Stereophonics - Madame Helga Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-04-07-08-09-13-16-20-22-24-25-31-36-39 (17 weeks) For quite some time I'd have said Stereophonics were my favourite act, I adored their previous album Performance & Cocktails and still remember going to buy their debut soon after getting into that. In 2003 I'd have taken my Year 9 SATS exams, and going to see their tour at Nottingham Arena that year was the gift from my parents for doing well. In the two years leading up to their third album I'd have listened to them so much that it was always likely they'd have returned with a first #1 single, they probably could have released any old dross and done it. And release any old dross, they certainly did! 8 songs in to get the first one where I really think "oh no, why this?!" isn't that bad going I suppose considering these were my early teenage years. I'd still say I have a soft spot for the Stereophonics, although it's been a long while since I bothered to listen to new material they put out. I have seen them a further three times and they're still a great live act - I watched and enjoyed their full Isle of Wight headline set this summer, but Madame Helga is quite far from being a song of theirs I'd willingly put on. 2025 Rating: 4/10 Songs kept from #1: It was three different songs occupying the #2 spot behind this, the Stripes to start with before a rare long-ish climb for R Kelly's Ignition (Remix) (18-10-03-02-04-...) which felt like it came from absolutely nowhere at the time. I'd say I'm glad I didn't make it number one because y'know, however it is a much better song than Madame Helga and there are much more problematic to come in the next 12 months... before Evanescence entered at #2 with Bring Me To Life, not something I listen to much now but a fully deserved UK #1 and again, better than this.

07 - 21/04/2003 The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-02-04-08-10-12-15-17-19-22-25-30-33-37 (17 weeks) The White Stripes were a slightly strange band for me. On the face of it they were the type of act I should've loved, but apart from the odd single (that tended to be one per album) I just never really took to them. I'd really enjoyed Fell In Love With a Girl previously, but that was it. 7 Nation Army felt like it was huge at the time, Jack White's vocal on it was great and it was so catchy and anthemic - its UK chart run certainly doesn't befit how big a song it felt, and a 4 week run at the top for me is in no way surprising. It's one of a few songs of this era that has completely transcended its popularity of the time to become something much bigger, with it being the perfect anthem to chant along to at any kind of sporting or political occasion, but unlike others in that category hasn't reached the stage where I'm completely bored of listening to it. It isn't something I choose to listen to often as a result of how everywhere it is, but it is still great, the riff has never stopped being all kinds of incredible. A song absolutely worthy of what it has become. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Blur were knocked down to #2 and remained there for the duration of 7 Nation Army's stay at #1. Tomcraft - Loneliness, Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends and Sean Paul - Get Busy the pick of the top 10 entries during its month at the top.

01 (01) Self Esteem - Cheers To Me (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (03) FKA twigs - Perfectly (02) (05) 03 (02) Cerrone feat. Christine and the Queens - Catching Feelings (01) (09) (1 week) 04 (10) White Lies - In The Middle (04) (04) 05 (08) Wolf Alice - The Sofa (05) (05) 06 (04) HVOB - Abyss (04) (09) 07 (05) Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussuf Dayes - Lotus (01) (11) (4 weeks) 08 (06) Mount Palomar feat. Karla Chubb - L'Aliment (02) (08) 09 (13) Soulwax - Run Free (09) (05) 10 (07) Panic Shack - Pockets (07) (05) 11 (22) Tame Impala - End of Summer (11) (03) 12 (16) The Hives - Legalize Living (12) (04) 13 (18) Hot Chip - Devotion (13) (04) 14 (26) Wolf Alice - White Horses (14) (02) 15 (12) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (01) (17) (7 weeks) 16 (30) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (16) (03) 17 (09) Jayda G - The Shiver (06) (06) 18 (21) Sigrid - Jellyfish (18) (04) 19 (14) Young Fathers - Lowly (11) (08) 20 (11) HAIM - All Over Me (03) (09) 21 (29) Blankenberge - What You Know (21) (02) 22 (24) Jamie XX - Dream Night (22) (03) 23 (15) Model/Actriz - Vespers (07) (12) 24 (17) Ethel Cain - f*** Me Eyes (17) (05) 25 (27) TTSSFU - Call U Back (25) (03) 26 (36) Ebbb - Manners (26) (02) 27 (43) Baxter Dury - Schadenfreude (27) (01) 28 (20) Car Seat Headrest - The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man) (04) (14) 29 (32) Little Simz feat. Yukimi - Enough (29) (02) 30 (41) Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (30) (01) 31 (19) Fred Again... feat. Skepta & PlayBoyMax - Victory Lap (15) (06) 32 (42) Idlewild - It's Not The First Time (32) (01) 33 (23) For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows (02) (12) 34 (25) Sudan Archives - Dead (05) (10) 35 (28) Getdown Services - Dog Dribble (02) (16) 36 (34) We Are Scientists - What You Want Is Gone (28) (07) 37 (**) Alison Goldfrapp - Strange Things Happen (37) (01) 38 (31) Purity Ring - Many Lives (13) (09) 39 (35) Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (04) (13) 40 (33) Jasper Tygner feat. Art School Girlfriend - Hold You (26) (06)

06 - 14/04/2003 Blur - Out of Time Chart Run: 01-02-02-02-02-04-06-09-11-13-18-18-20-24-28-32-38-40 (18 weeks) My love for Blur wasn't fully developed in 2003, I was probably only aware of a handful of songs, their biggest earlier songs and then Tender and Coffee & TV from their previous album 13, but they weren't necessarily a band someone would get into before the age of 10. Their 2003 singles began to change that, Out of Time is absolutely gorgeous and Crazy Beat (#5 in July) was a huge amount of fun, although not something I really go back to now. In the intervening 22 years, there are only a handful of acts I'll have listened to more than Blur, most of their albums ended up becoming CDs I owned and the majority of them are great. I've generally preferred their more mellow side and Out of Time remains a perfect example of it. It'd be a hard task to rank their best songs, but it would definitely appear towards the top, and its parent album Think Tank is definitely in my top 3 of theirs. 2025 Rating: 10/10 Knocking Clocks down to #2, Out of Time was the only release of the week that charted in the top 10, though both Goldfrapp - Train and Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night would definitely have been worthy of that.

05 - 24/03/2003 Coldplay - Clocks Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-03-04-06-07-09-09-13-15-19-23-24-27-33-36-39 (19 weeks) I did own Parachutes but I it wasn't a particular favourite of mine, just the singles and Everything's Not Lost, but A Rush of Blood To The Head I absolutely adored. After listening to this song so much in the previous months it was never in doubt where it would enter. The Scientist has an unfortunate peak of #8 from the first chart of the year, a full two months after it was originally released and would have charted. Without looking back at what was out at the time of that and In My Place, it's very possible Clocks could have been completing a trio of #1s from that album. Clocks is definitely still one of their best songs. I can't say I've cared for a lot of their more recent material, but some of their older songs are classics the deservedly elevated them to their status. A Rush Of Blood... joins Viva La Vida in the only album of theirs I'd still ever be likely to play in full. They went on to reach my top 3 another 7 times. 2025 Rating: 9/10 Songs kept off: Hot Hot Heat - Bandages A quiet three weeks really, Make Luv (the official #1) bounced about in the #11-20 region for 2 months, but there was very little else. Bandages is a great underrated indie banger of the time, but not something I've revisited a lot in recent years.

My family first got a computer (and therefore the internet) in 2002 so by 2003 I was definitely in the phase of using the likes of WinMX and LimeWire to source songs, there's a song coming up from June which I remember downloading and copying its parent album to a load of school friends, so yeah most songs of the era I'd have heard on the radio and then the stuff I liked most would have downloaded and been listening through my PC for ages so all charted highly. By the end of 2004 I started listening to Zane Lowe's show most nights (usually whilst surfing CoolClarity!) and he certainly seemed to play stuff weeks before it came out so stayed prominent until the way music was released and consumed did really.

Because of how I did my chart, in charting everything in the week of release, as I'd been largely listening to songs on the radio or on their parent albums for weeks beforehand, the majority of songs in the early years did enter at their peak, whereas when I changed it they started entering lower once I'd heard them 2 or 3 times and climb their way up. Just four 2003 number ones didn't enter there.

04 - 03/03/2003 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet Chart Run: 02-01-01-01-03-04-05-07-08-09-12-15-17-21-24-27-32-38 (18 weeks) Mirroring its UK chart run by climbing a place to peak in its second week, Move Your Feet is an infectious earworm that seemed like it was everywhere at the time. I was often love or hate with the big dance hits as an early teenager, but this was certainly one I loved. As with their UK chart history, one small follow-up in Rhythm Bandits which I don't recall now even listening to it again. Move Your Feet is a song which has definitely stood the test of time. It's still very enjoyable and a good party song for people of the right age, pleased this is one I got to listen to, and nice to have some variation in my 2003 entries! 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Missy Elliott & Ludacris - Gossip Folks Other notable entries I still enjoy include The Mock Turtles re-issue of 90s hit Can You Dig It? (#4), 50 Cent - In Da Club (#5) and Placebo - The Bitter End (#9) I enjoy both the original and Fatboy Slim Remix of Gossip Folks but it is a somewhat surprising song to spend a fortnight at #2, and there's certainly nothing here that deserves to have taken any of Move Your Feet's 3 weeks at the top.

Thanks Jim. I'd have to agree that I'd rank them similarly now, would listen to them over most of the 2003 songs I'm going to discuss. Mundian to Bach Ke was certainly a unique sound at the time I enjoyed, and charted for 13 weeks with a #11 peak, but not something I've listened to for a while! Thanks - I will give a listen to that, it does seem like a well covered song and other versions of it are usually good. Only a two week entry for I Can't Break Down, which I don't recall tbh!

03 - 03/02/2003 Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-02-03-03-06-05-06-06-07-08-11-13-13-18-22-26-31-37-40 (22 weeks) If I had still got previous years charts there would be a lot more of this type of song included, it felt like most of the school kids my age would be into either the Eminem's and 50 Cent's of the world or US pop-punk, I was definitely in the latter set and the likes of Linkin Park, Sum 41, Bowling For Soup and Alien Ant Farm would also be appearing here too. As its popularity died down, it seemed to be a 50/50 split as to those that moved to heavier stuff (Korn, GNR, Iron Maiden etc.) and those like myself that became indie kids. Like most of these bands, Good Charlotte had a knack of releasing incredibly catchy, singalong anthems and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was certainly one of those, and a song I just didn't get bored of, most big songs of this time had long running entries but #8 after a quarter of a year is quite something. It seemed to gain in popularity overall with a somewhat unusual beginning to its UK chart life of 13-20-08-12-17. Its parent album The Young and the Hopeless was another I played a huge amount, and they were definitely a favourite of mine through that period with a pair of follow-ups that both entered at #3, though by the time they next released anything I was much less interested. It's hard not to feel a nostalgic warmth listening to this song, it remains a good example of this type of song, however I can definitely say this is a sound I 'grew out' of. If I were in a rare mood when I wanted to listen to some early noughties US pop-punk, then Lifestyles... wouldn't be towards the top of the list of songs I'd put on. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Songs kept from #1: Oasis - Songbird and Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop Other notable entries include Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River (#4), Royksopp - Eple (#5) and Christine Aguilera - Beautiful (#6) Ultimately, whilst I'd still listen to each of those I don't look at that list and hugely wish I was discussing one of those songs instead.

02 - 20/01/2003 Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks Chart Run: 01-01-03-05-06-08-10-13-15-18-19-20-25-25-26-32-35-39 (18 weeks) There are going to be a fair amount of songs by male fronted bands that play guitars that feature here, particularly in the early years, so nice to appreciate something completely different early on... I was definitely taken in at the time by how much Nice Weather For Ducks stood out from everything else, its clever use of sampling with a funny and charming main lyric was reminiscent of The Avalanches hits from a couple of years previous, which I also loved. They had a few further smaller hits but this was comfortably the song of theirs I got into most. Two decades on and it remains a song that I love listening to, even if I don't that often and it really makes me smile. It could have been so easy to make this type of song completely rubbish, but they really delivered in making it so uplifting. 2025 Rating: 8/10 It didn't prevent anything from reaching the top as Times Like These was runner-up for both its weeks at the top. Jay-Z & Beyonce - '03 Bonnie & Clyde (#5) and Tatu - All The Things She Said (#4) are the only others songs that charted in this fortnight I'd still ever listen to.

Thanks Rich. Yes, there are definitely a few of those to come. Reminds me I got part way through your 2000s number ones thread but never finished it...