Stadiums

Nottingham Forest have played in the City Ground in West Bridgford since 1898 in 1994 it was made an all seater stadium and was used as a venue in Euro 96 and can seat 30,445. Nottingham Forest's stadium is located 300 yards away from their nearest geographical rivals Notts County which is on the other side of the River Trent. Both stadiums are the closest professional football stadia in England, and are the second closest in the United Kingdomm after Dundee and Dundee United. Before playing in the City Ground Forest played their home games in Forest Recreation Ground.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST FC - FOOTBALL'S GREATEST TEAMS - MID TO LATE 1970'S

credit : WESTEND126

In 1865 outside Clinton Arms on Shakespeare street in Nottingham a group of men gathered to play shinney a game kind of  like hockey, a man called J S Scrimshaw suggested that they should play football instead thus creating Nottingham Forest Football Club. Nottingham Forest played their first ever football match in 1866 against Notts County who were formed 4 years previous.

Nottingham Forest got their first taste of cup glory in 1898 when they beat Derby County 3-1.

Above is the winning team that won the FA cup in 1898. Forest spent most of the early 1900's in the second division but ten in 1919 the first division wanted to expand their league to 22 teams. Forest applied for entry along with many other teams they received three votes and got promoted as well as Arsenal and Chelsea. In 1949 they were relegated to the third division but quickly came back while scoring a record 110 goals.




photo credit:http://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/club/history/

Introduction

Hi my name is James and this is my blog on the geography of Nottingham Forest.