Field Notes

It’s been nearly a week since the last Field Notes update, in which time here’s what exciting Forest news you might have missed…

• Billy Davies has been given a touchline ban for improper conduct after the Wigan game. He’ll now have to watch the Barnsley game from the director’s box and we all know how much he hates it up there!
• Even if he can’t get on with referees, Billy seems to have no problem palling it up with the chairman this time around, releasing a statement of gushing praise for Fawaz Al-Hasawi after the transfer window closed. He even calls the sale of Adlène Guedioura a ‘good bit of business’ – when was the last time you heard a manager say something positive after a star player was sold?!
• The club continue to wind up the Nottingham Post, rushing to refute a fairly innocuous story about Simon Cox having a dead leg. Expect Forest to continue to piss on the Post’s chips next week by publishing the solution to their crossword puzzle…
• Kenny Burns has waded into the Derby ticket debate, renaming their stadium ‘Petty Park’. Derby have now sold out their tiny allocation for the game later this month. Amusingly, while Kenny deliberately misnomers the ground, the Derby Telegraph managed to get the name of the team wrong….
  

With the domestic season resuming this Saturday, LTLF looks forward to reporting on more people falling out with each other (and the occasional love-in between manager and chairman) throughout September…