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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Live in Nottingham
Nottingham is glorious in the sunshine and this city is one that claims to be the pub capital of the UK. It is said the West Bridgeford area, home to the City Ground on the River Trent, has nine pubs per square mile and it feels like everyone is out nice and early to soak in the atmosphere. Advertisement Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo has delivered the same message to fans in his programme notes as his press conference: "Enjoy the game and bring then noise." My train came in stupidly early today so I have been walking around. There there is a bit of a party atmosphere bubbling up even several hours before kick-off.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Nottingham Forest City Ground expansion recommended for approval
The long-awaited redevelopment of Nottingham Forest's stadium has been recommended for plans would see the existing Peter Taylor Stand demolished and replaced with a 10,000-seater stand, increasing the City Ground's overall capacity to 35, is due to be considered at a meeting of Rushcliffe Borough Council's planning committee on 26 club first unveiled plans for a major revamp in 2019, and outline planning permission was initially granted in 2022, but a number of technical updates have since been made and work has yet to begin. Council documents published on Wednesday say the "extended passage of time" means the application requires "fresh consideration."Construction was originally expected to cost around £94m, but an estimate from January 2025 indicates this has risen to £ latest report, however, states the proposed development would "contribute significantly to both the local and wider economy."Taking into account the structural roof trusses, the new stand would be approximately 38m (124ft) high, making it the tallest stand at the City state the development would also provide "improved staff/player infrastructure including spectator, hospitality and conferencing facilities".In addition, the club is seeking outline permission to build an apartment block with 169 units next to the ground.A joint statement released on Wednesday said: "Nottingham Forest has been in regular dialogue with Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council regarding the redevelopment of the City Ground."The parties can confirm they are working towards the Rushcliffe Borough Council Planning Committee date of Thursday 26 June to consider the application. "There will be no further comment other than as required by the relevant legal process." If approved, it would pave the way for the club to buy the freehold of the land which the City Ground sits year, Forest's then-chairman said the club could relocate away from the ground because of a dispute with Nottingham City Council over the rent the club local authority has since agreed to sell the land, but the club previously said any decision to buy the freehold would be "entirely conditional" on it being granted planning permission for the stadium expansion.A number of objections to the development have been raised by local councillors and community groups, including increased congestion in the area on matchdays and a lack of parking report recommends the application is given full planning permission subject to a range of conditions, such as the club making financial contributions to local club will also be required to enter into a legal agreement with Nottingham Rowing Club to replace its Britannia boathouse, which is set to be demolished as part of the state the replacement facilities would have to be in place before any demolition work takes work on the new stand would then have to begin within three years of the conditions being owner Evangelos Marinakis has previously said he eventually hopes to increase the ground's capacity to 50,000.
New York Times
2 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
Nottingham Forest get City Ground expansion boost with council recommendation
Nottingham Forest's long-awaited redevelopment of the City Ground is finally set to get the go-ahead. The plans to knock down the current Peter Taylor stand and replace it with a new and bigger structure, taking the capacity up to 35,000, will be heard by Rushcliffe Borough Council on June 26. In a huge breakthrough for the club, the council's planning department has 'recommended that planning permission be granted subject to a series of planning conditions.' Advertisement Forest have previously stated that they will begin work as quickly as they can once they have full planning permission and that is likely to be next year. After that, the club intend to push through with plans to increase the capacity of the stadium to 40,000 by developing the Bridgford stand. As The Athletic revealed last year, the club also have an agreement in principle with Nottingham City Council, their current landlords, to buy the freehold for the land that the stadium occupies. 'Nottingham Forest has been in regular dialogue with Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council regarding the redevelopment of the City Ground,' a joint statement from the club and council read on Wednesday. 'The parties can confirm they are working towards the Rushcliffe Borough Council Planning Committee date of Thursday, 26 June to consider the application. There will be no further comment other than as required by the relevant legal process.' ()
The Independent
11-06-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
England ‘a work in progress' and have a lot of improving to do
Conor Gallagher accepts there is 'a lot of improvement' to make following a disappointing international break which saw England slip to a first defeat under Thomas Tuchel. England laboured to an unimpressive 1-0 victory over Andorra, a side ranked 173rd in the world, before slipping to their first defeat to African opposition three days later. Despite Harry Kane's early goal, the warning signs were there as Dean Henderson made five saves in the first period, but after Crystal Palace's Ismaila Sarr drew the visitors level, Habib Diarra and Cheikh Sabaly struck in the second half as boos rang around the City Ground. Gallagher, who was substituted in the second half, revealed Tuchel was calm in the dressing room after the game and is frustrated the next international window is three months away. The Atletico Madrid midfielder said: 'It was a really tough game, but we're still building. There's a lot to improve and there's a lot to work on and, as a team, we'll do that. 'I'm sure the manager and the coaching staff will look back at the game and see where we can be better because there is a lot of improvement to be made, but we're moving forward. 'He's calm. He's obviously disappointed and not happy, but he's calm with us. He knows we could be a lot better. 'It's a shame because we're away from each other for a few months now, whereas he would like to kind of fix the problem straight away, but he can't because that's how it is in international football. 'It's a work in progress and all the lads and the staff and the manager are all confident and happy with the progression. 'We have a lot to build on and improve and that's what we're going to try to do.' England were accused of not showing the right attitude in their narrow win over minnows Andorra. Asked whether they had shown the right application against Senegal, Gallagher replied: 'Yeah, definitely. I think we really wanted to win and I feel like we worked hard. 'I don't think we were great, if I'm being honest. But like I keep saying, it's a kind of work in progress and we need to improve moving forward and we're all happy to be doing that.' Gallagher's focus will now switch to the Club World Cup as he prepares to join up with his Atletico team-mates in the United States ahead of their first game against Champions League winners Paris St Germain at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. He said: 'It's really exciting and I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be a great tournament. I think it will be really exciting when all the teams are actually there and the tournament starts. 'You want to always play against the best players and the midfielders. Obviously (PSG) had an unbelievable season, so you want to be playing against these guys. We know how hard it will be, but it's good for us and it's exciting.'
Daily Mail
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Thomas Tuchel is just another failing, over-hyped mercenary, writes JEFF POWELL... he needs to go already!
The honeymoon lasted longer than the 55 hours Britney Spears stayed married to her one-time school friend Jason Alexander. But not by much. And the boos which chased Thomas Tuchel out of the City Ground after England 's lame defeat by Senegal were far louder than the boo-hoos which followed Britney to the divorce court from her boozy wedding in the fabled Little White Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. Spears blamed the briefest wedlock in celebrity history on being 'very bored', And so say the England faithful a mere four games into the reign of Herr Tuchel. The unrest festering with the tedium of each of his matches found raucous voice as a shaky and narrow win over Andorra (population 82,759) was followed by a 3-1 home humiliation by the ecstatic Senegalese on Tuesday. It took the faithful somewhat longer to twig the folly of England's previous costly experiments with over-hyped foreign mercenaries but they are sensing already that this German will go the same way as Sweden's Sven-Goran Eriksson and Italy's Fabio Capello. Namely nowhere when it comes to achieving England's first triumph since 1966 and all that. If it goes on like this much longer the question which dare not speak its name will start being asked. Should the FA cut their losses and find someone else, anyone more inspirational, to pick up the World Cup pieces next summer? My answer: 'Yes. Already.' Given his afternoon-after-Senegal outburst against Jude Bellingham, it sounds as if Tuchel might welcome early release from the stress of striving to inject energy, ambition, enthusiasm into this job-lot of footballers. In fact, any sign of life. A task made no easier by the apparent absence of any kind of strategy and organisation for this ramshackle team. It is impossible to disagree with his despair of Bellingham. The boy who promised to grow into the standard-bearer for English football now appears on the brink of following Dele Alli — of whom there were similar hopes — down the dark hole of premature fame and rampant ego. Into the nightclubs of wasted manhood — as Real Madrid are fearing — and the blinding light of sunshine reflecting off bikini bodies in millionaire resorts which are as morally ghastly as they are glamorously fake. Hey, Jude! Instead of telling the referee how to do his or her job, how about doing your own? Not that you are alone in being over-rated by increasingly sycophantic sections of the media. Kyle Walker is further past his sell-by date than a stale cornershop sandwich. The glorification of Declan Rice as world class is a delusion ignited by that £100million transfer fee. Yet Harry Kane is one being called out even though he keeps scoring England's odd goals. For that, we can forgive him for joining the others in clamorous objection to Bellingham's goal being disallowed on Tuesday. That was a shabby excuse made of desperation. VAR clearly showed Levi Colwell directing the ball with his upper arm. Bring on new blood, they cry. Actually, Tuchel has been doing just that. A gaggle of youngsters have been elevated to his teams. Few if any have lit up these barren performances. Not that it is easy to do so without an effective plan. Bellingham seems more occupied with telling the referee how to do their job rather than focusing on his own Bellingham is heading down the same route as Dele Alli, who was once England's next big hope but is now struggling for game time in Italy When Tuchel finally pitched up here, he did so brandishing a record of some success and endorsements for his supposedly visionary coaching. Closer examination points in part to short stays with quick profit from the work of his immediate predecessors. His Champions League success with Chelsea painted a better picture of Frank Lampard's management than the criticism which followed his sacking. Some of us began having our doubts when Tuchel proved a reluctant England bridegroom. So hesitant that he declined to move to this country until shortly before his first fixture. Even then he preferred working from home. What he has proved is exactly what many employers have discovered — that working from home doesn't work. It leads to being left behind by progress in the wider universe. Tuchel is a disciple of pressing. Admired as such by Pep Guardiola, for a decade the Messiah of that method. But the global game is moving on from the philosophy of prolonged possession being nine-tenths of the law. Spanish football is closing on world supremacy by following a winning of the ball by instant transition into high-speed attack and multiple attempts on goal. The self-same style with which Spanish master coach Luis Enrique has just delivered unto Paris Saint-Germain the first Champions League for all their money. An achievement which proved beyond Tuchel during his short stay in Paris. Can Herr Thomas adapt to a new age? Can England's players rouse themselves from their false sense of superiority and put in the hard work and deep thinking now required? No sign of it so far.
