Never mind, Forest, second place can wait for another day

It was quite a shock to the system last night to feel depressed about Forest. Now that sentence in itself is actually quite positive when you think about it, because I am talking about losing being a rare thing, rather than a common occurrence.

Unlike a few people, I never thought the Scunthorpe game would be a walk in the park, despite the fact that they hadn't won a home game since August and were looking down and out and League One bound. Forest didn't exactly have a glowing record against them at Glanford Park, where they had never won, so I was by no means expecting a victory this time. When it comes to the big pressure games, Forest always seem to come unstuck. They could have gone second had they won, but despite their best efforts just could not find a way past the goalkeeper. They had been dominating until Scunthorpe grabbed a goal completely against the run of play twenty minutes into the match when the ball unfortunately went in off Chris Gunter. It was a setback, but the fans had every reason to be confident that the Reds could come back from it.

Alas, it was not to be our night and Scunthorpe claimed a vital three points, and we missed the chance to go second, and in the process used up one of our games in hand. We are still in a great position, though, and with two home games coming up against Cardiff and Preston, this time next week we may well be back in the automatic promotion places.