The World in My Eyes

I must admit a few days ago when I thought about doing my usual match review I was dreading the content. I was envisioning a large scoreline, a manager-less perspective and a heavy feeling in my heart. I have been pleasantly surprised in all respects.  Nottingham Forest 1-0 Derby County  In the past I have only ever been 100% sure of a defeat on three occasions; one of those occasions was two years ago when we beat Leicester on their own pitch 2-0, January 2015 against Derby who we beat 2-1 and Friday... which ultimately ended in the above scoreline. I scoff at the word pessimist, I prefer the term "realistic". I was realistic about these fixtures and on Friday all signs pointed to a sure defeat for my club. Without a win in 8 and dark clouds forever looming over The City Ground and social networking, things were looking beyond bleak. On Tuesday night, following a poor defeat away at Preston North End, I, probably like many other Forest fans, was looking at our loc

As I'm currently attempting to do the 92 (currently on 82), I'm finding myself attending football grounds and watching football teams that I don't usually tend to give second thoughts about. On my travels I've been meaning to do the odd blog about which grounds I've been to, what I've made of the grounds and the games I've watched. I haven't got around to it until today, and I've found, surprisingly, my team of interest is actually a team I first visited nearly 8 years ago in 2007 when they beat my own team 1-0 in the FA Cup second round.  There is of course a slight history between Forest and Luton, however this history goes back way before I was born. I was unfortunately born into an era of Gary Megson, Junior Agogo and losing to Accrington Stanley on a Tuesday evening, not the glory days of beating Luton in cup finals at Wembley or indeed winning two European Cups. Despite this, coming from the family that I have, I was well informed as a chi

Depression. It's a word that is very romanticised in some ways. There are so many cases of the word being flung about for any situation that may suit. Some use it as an excuse to act in certain ways and some exaggerate it to gain attention that is so badly craved. However, believe it or not, some actually genuinely mean it when they say that they have depression. In actual fact, 350 million people suffer with depression world wide- and for those people, coming out and saying it doesn't come as easy as you think.  Whether people understand depression or not, everyone knows that the word depression comes with labels, labels that sufferers don't want to be associated with or judged by. Often, people spend so long in denial of depression that they make themselves worse, trying to avoid the labels and to try and avoid the upset that they may, or in their minds, probably will inflict on other people.   There are a million articles and blogs written by nume