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Wow! Jacob Steinberg’s report is already with us!
Meaning we’re completed right here, so thanks in your firm and feedback – sorry I couldn’t use all of them – and for these of you on the finish of 1, get pleasure from what’s left of the lengthy weekend. Love.
PSA: John Higgins and Joe O’Connor are enjoying an epic on the Crucible. For those who’re close to a telly, I urge you to get it on.
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What a win for Forest! Subsequent for them it’s Manchester Metropolis at Wembley within the FA Cup semi – think about the excitement their gamers, workers and followers are on – and in successful tonight they’ve despatched a message to your Villas, Newcastles, Citys and Chelseas of this world. A pleasant run-in says they’ve a extremely good probability of seeing it out to make the Champions League.
FULL TIME: Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Nottingham Forest
A monumental win for forest, who transfer again into third place; Spurs keep sixteenth.
90+6 min Forest are practically there, Sosa pulling broad and as a substitute of going to the nook, seeking to clip over in the direction of Awoniyi. It doesn’t work out, however Awoniyi then wins a free-kick by the touchline, proper it entrance of the away followers, noising them up as in the event that they wanted such, and that’s absolutely it.
90+4 min Johnson, the previous Forest man, collects a go on the run, skipping inside Toffolo, who fouls him and is booked. free-kick Spurs, out on the best, 30 yards from purpose … and somebody, I don’t see who, heads clear then, when it comes again, williams humps ahead for Awoniyi.
90+3 min Change for forest, Sosa changing Gibbs-White.
90+2 min Sels takes ages over a goalkick and is booked. He’s been good tonight; so have his teammates, who arrived in London underneath strain to rebound after a doubtlessly damaging defeat final trip. With Forest’s greatest season in 30 years at stake, they’ve achieved fantastically to maintain the pinnacle and produce sufficient high quality to steer at this stage.
90+1 min Milenkovic goes down with obvious cramp, however is quickly again to his toes.
90 min We’ll have 5 further minutes.
90 min Begvall, on for Sarr – apologies, I didn’t get to noting it – will get away, is hauled down by Yates, and that’s a yellow card.
88 min Credit score to Richarlison, who’s toiled tonight with out shedding hope or confidence. His final header was fairly good, requiring a extremely good save to maintain it out, and the one which scored was excellent.
GOAL1 Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Nottingham Forest (Richarlison 87)
Livener! Spurs win a free-kick and shove it broad, Porro curling in one other positive cross, once more Richarlison rises, and this time he guides a terrific header down and throughout Sels, into the far nook. These previous few minutes shall be intense!
85 min “Bear in mind this line from Colin Farrell in In Bruges,” asks Rob Coughlin. “You weren’t actually shit, however you weren’t all that nice both. Like Tottenham.” Does this even apply anymore?”
Did it ever?
84 min My SkyGo crashes, returning simply in time for me to see Spence shanking a shot someplace in the direction of Selhurst Park.
82 min On which level, what a season Sels has had. Matt Turner wasn’t fairly adequate, besides, the extent of the improve is uncommon.
81 min What a save Matz Sels! Porro tosses in a cross and Richarlison is up once more, heading down … however Sels does brilliantly to attend for it to bounce earlier than flicking it away. Had he tried to get a hand to it when it hit the bottom, it might’ve overwhelmed him.
79 min “I’m guessing right here,” admits Peter Crosby, “however I’ve puzzled for a while whether or not Ange and his workers have a communication difficulty. I’m a Spurs fan and watching from afar, I’ve been struck all season by simply what number of subs are made at half-time. That feels incorrect – it occurs virtually each sport, and it strikes me as a corrective act fairly than a progressive one. The message it should ship to the gamers (I’m pondering Maddison greater than most) is so unfavourable. It usually seems like desperation fairly than managed. Nuno and Forest are an excellent instance of the way it must be working – so the truth that it doesn’t with Spurs has acquired to be a administration difficulty.”
I don’t suppose the gamers are nice, however Postecoglou’s Spurs remind me a little bit of Ten Hag’s United: adequate to beat the beast on a great day, however the supervisor couldn’t discover a corrective when the system that labored positive with the perfect, richest group in a weaker league turned out to be unsuitable for the Prem.
77 min This has been one among Tel’s higher video games for Spurs – he’s seemed extra doubtless than most to make one thing occur, with out wanting remotely prone to make one thing occur. He is likely to be good in a great group, however he’s not adequate to raise a poor one.
75 min Johnson tosses a hopeful cross miles from wherever, then Forest make one other modifications, Awoniyi for Wooden – who now has 18 targets for the season.
74 min Forest are so good at maintaining their opponents assaults in entrance of them. Nuno and his coaches have achieved such a great job of getting the group to purchase into, then drill the plan.
72 min Once more, Forest enable Danso to have the ball, so he mooches a little bit nearer to purpose, then lashes a shot again the best way he got here … which scuttles simply broad of the publish.
71 min Right here come Spurs once more, Spence attacking the surface of Williams, who doesn’t have the tempo or physicality to manage, however nearly manages to get again ceding a nook … which involves nowt.
70 min Wooden bursts away from Sarr on midway and with no Van de Ven on the pitch tries to stay it in behind Davies and run him, however the defender will get in the best way simply sufficient.
68 min Two extra modifications for Spurs: off go Odobert and Kulusevski, on come Solanke and Johnson.
67 min Sels saves Forest! A clearance hits Yates on the again and diverts the ball into the field, proper to Richarlison! However he’s possibly a little bit late to react, the keeper leaps at him, and wears the pushed shot on the midriff. That’s a little bit of a sair yin, however he’ll be positive.
65 min Gibbs-White’s contact is off, he lunges at Porro seeking to retrieve the scenario, and lands studs on ankle. He’s booked.
63 min Oh my days! Porro’s nook goes close to publish, Kulusevski is as much as look a header headed for the far side-netting … till, out of nowhere, Toffolo – dealing with his personal purpose – extends a go-go Gadget leg to hook away from underneath his personal bar! That’s sensational defending.
62 min If Postecoglou needs to get one thing out of this sport he absolutely has to carry on Maddison? Although I’m not sure there’s a participant whose conception of how good he’s additional away from how good he’s, he’s nonetheless an honest participant capable of finding house in tight areas. Anyroad, Spurs have a nook down the best…
60 min “Hasan’s issues can be solved, in some ways, by Forest successful a 3rd European Cup,” reckons Simon McGrother.
58 min Two extra modifications for Forest: off go Danilo and Dominguez, on come Yates and Hudson-Odoi – who we thought would possibly have an effect on the sport within the final half-hour or so.
57 min “Can’t agree with you about all besides Spurs supporters siding with Forest,” says Richard Hirst. “I nonetheless have this nagging feeling that Forest acquired away with one after they went on their grocery store sweep; I can’t consider they weren’t relegated. For them to qualify for the Champions League appears inappropriate.”
Oh I didn’t say individuals can be siding with Forest, simply laughing at Spurs given the extent to which the sport has gone as they’d have deliberate it to. I agree that theirs is just not a easy story of footballing romance – likewise that of Bournemouth and Brighton – however as of late, it’s onerous to do significantly better.
55 min And right here comes the Forest counter! An extended punt clear is flicked on by Gibbs-White, who spins and continues his run, Wooden cushioning a stunning volleyed return into his stride, the close to aspect of the purpose opening up for him. However from the sting, his agency go in the direction of it zips a yard or two broad. That’s by far the perfect probability of the half thus far.
54 min Now it’s Porro on the assault and Sarr once more box-crashes – he should’ve been given the order – however the ball arrives at a clumsy angle and all he can do is flick it over his personal head to nobody.
53 min To this point this half, it’s been all Spurs, however Forest are snug.
51 min Higher from Spurs, Danso supplied house so feeding into the field, the place Sarr’s first contact takes him into house and away from Milenkovic, who grabs a handful of blouse on the ref’s blind aspect, and does sufficient to carry his man up – although there was additionally an excessive amount of on the management.
50 min We’re again into it at Stockley Park, the hearth alarm resolved and VAR again working … or not.
49 min “As a middle-aged man – not essentially the most elusive demographic in MBMland, I’m guessing,” begins Hasan, “I can calculate that I spent roughly the primary quarter of my life scribbling the Forest crest on to any spare patch of paper I may discover …a nd not as soon as did I believe I used to be drawing Elmo. Now, after tonight,it stays to be seen how a lot of the remainder of my life on this mortal coil shall be spent making an attempt to unsee Elmo each time I take a look at it. So I simply needed to say thanks for that, actually.”
On the plus aspect, now you can additionally draw one of many nice Muppets.