We launched our web site on this particular Wednesday night only to see spoilt by Sheffield Wednesday. The Reds submitted to a tame one:nil defeat. A victory in this match would have spearheaded Forest into the Play-Off Zone!
Wonderful facilities for away fans at Portsmouth. Fortunately for Reds fans the torrential rain came either side of the match, otherwise things would have been pretty grim.
The home fans may have had the best facilities, but Forest had the better team and won a boring match two:nil.
Wot no seats and no roof ?
And it rained from the first to the eightynineth minute! To make matters worse a typhoon blew in from the missing Town End building site behind the far goal.
Twenty-first century catering services for away fans.
This trolley was all there was available for 2,000 or so hungry and tired Forest fans, who had to enter the ground at 1:30pm to make sure they got in to see the match. What a welcome, crisps, sweets and luke warm drinks. The Tannoy system announced that there were hot pies and burgers on sale, but not to those most in need apparently. Then at 2:45pm the trolley ran out of supplies and further supplies were not forthcoming. Did Virgin Trains provide this 'service'?
The Forest fans kept on smiling but look at the toilet facilities in the tiny portacabin!
The facilities for home fans are centuries ahead!
This club could be hosting Premiership football next season with their existing visitors facilities.
Forest fans finished the day soaked, hungry, freezing and thirsty, but Hjelde's last gasp equaliser made the whole thing worthwhile!
Wolves could do with this guy inside the stadium and on the pitch, rather than on a plinth in the street!
Wot no cameras ? And they were carrying out body searches on all visiting fans wishing to enter Molenieux.
How do you secrete an object like a digital camera (please don't answer that one).
Take a look at this one Dave Jones. The camera got by the body search, so what are you going to do about this?
We might have lost the match two:nil, but we beat the strip search!
Wimbledon: the club with no ground and no fans! But with a 2:1 defeat the jinx struck again and the promotion dream for this season was shattered.
Forest finished the season in a very disappointing 11th Position in The Nationwide League First Division with 68 Points (P46, W20, D8, L18, F 55, A 53, GD+2) having been knocked out of both the League and FA Cups at the first hurdle.
It wasn't all bad news though, because 'Manager' David Platt, having overseen a period in which Forest's future prospects of a return to the big time were severely damaged as he used them as a stepping stone in his master plan to manage Enland, left the club to take over as England's Under 21 Team Coach.To our great relief he was replaced at long last by the great Paul Hart!
Photo-reports of bugcafe's travels during the 2001/02 and 2002/03 Seasons can be entered through the 'Galleries Index'.
