Sunday 6 February 2011

Forest just keep on winning, and winning, and winning...

I'm dreading the time when Forest eventually lose a home game. When it happens often, as it did a few years ago, I just became inured to it and a quick shrug of the shoulders would suffice, but having not experienced that feeling, unbelievably, for nearly 18 months (let's not mention the play-offs), it's going to feel very painful when they do lose.

I'm not sure if the fact that we are 34 matches unbeaten makes us more likely to lose the next one, or less. After all the record cannot go on indefinitely, can it? We've had a few scares lately, coming back from two goals down against Barnsley, and coming from behind to beat Portsmouth in the final minute. And Watford were a very difficult team to play against, our defence having to work very hard, but we came through that unscathed and won the three points thanks to Marcus Tudgay who scored in the very first minute.

There may have only been one goal in it, but it was a highly entertaining match and you couldn't take your eyes off it for one second. Forest played some great passing football at times that had the crowd purring with pleasure. It makes me feel like a proud parent when I hear pundits in the media say really good things about us. Even Robbie Savage has been very kind, calling us a fantastic football club. He might be saying it for effect to make himself look good, but I have to admit when he does say things like that, I hate him just a little bit less.

We now find ourselves in a very enviable position of being in second place with two games in hand. We are also top of the form league, having earned six victories in a row. Things are looking very good at the moment, but there are some difficult games coming up in the next few weeks, not least starting with a trip to the leaders QPR next Sunday. If we were to win there, we would be able to catch them if we won both our games in hand, but a draw would be an excellent result, too. Last year we went to West Brom, who were top at the time, and not many people gave us a chance of winning there, but we walked away with a well-deserved 3-1 victory, so anything is possible. If anybody should be frightened, it's QPR, not us.

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