Plaistow Eagle
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Thanks Mate ❤️💙
Glasner to Forest
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Really, were you supporting someone else then, or are you just a bit dolt.
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All really appreciate your messages of condolences.
But I posted my initial post to apologise for not being on here for all the debates and banter..!!
What this experience has taught me - is that you can go into yourself and wallow in self pity - or you can stand up and be the person your parents bought you into the world to be..!!
It took me some very dark times to come that conclusion..!!
But I wanted to share it with you all - should you ever face similar circumstances..!!
There is an end to it and there is finally peace..!!
COYP..!!
But I posted my initial post to apologise for not being on here for all the debates and banter..!!
What this experience has taught me - is that you can go into yourself and wallow in self pity - or you can stand up and be the person your parents bought you into the world to be..!!
It took me some very dark times to come that conclusion..!!
But I wanted to share it with you all - should you ever face similar circumstances..!!
There is an end to it and there is finally peace..!!
COYP..!!
Forest Hillbilly
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I supported the club, and whoever was in charge. unlike some. 😀
And I'm all the better for it. At least I didn't embarrass myself
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Nicholas91
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Good to have you back PE and my condolences for your losses.
Hope the business takes off along with Sage’s reign for you.
COYP
Plaistow Eagle
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Thanks Mate.. ❤️💙
BromleyMonkey
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Glasner did it with a quality players that only premier league riches could provide and then had a massive wobbly because he didn’t get more riches last summer……..Sir Steve built a team that finished THIRD for about £2.50 with players signed from Aylesbury, Yeovil, Tenembee, Greenwich Borough, Crewe, Bristol Rovers, Leicester reserves etc
Great times with Ollie, but if we put a statue up of him he’d only Bleat about being abandoned and want to take it up to Forest with him 🤣
Partly because of the events in front of the camera in the latter part of the season that were handled poorly... also partly down to fate, as all things are in life.
He was in the running for a bunch of them. He was a whisker away from being installed at San Siro. Paperwork drawn up but not signed. They backed out and went for Amorim instead.
People have changes of heart in the boardroom, and suddenly you (managers) find yourself in a situation where you have to settle for what you can get.
He has to blame himself at least in part though.
cryrst
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He chose to leave so I think he is to blame alone.
Jim_Cannon
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Well said and good analysis
andyachtie
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At what point did i say they had won a european trophy!!!
How do you define a big club? A Supreme Court judge once said "I can't define pornography but I know it when I see it".
Attendance? Yes but then that can be skewed. Palace have size constraints West Ham don't. Sunderland are a one town club where London has at least 8. So Sunderland are the only game in town.
History? Nothing wrong in being proud of you history but there are many northern towns whose clubs were big before the war but are now perennial lower league participants.
Success? I suspect this is the best measure. A mate once suggested that a big club should win one trophy at least every 10 years. I think this is the best measure.
We are currently in a purple patch but we are not bigger than West Ham we are just better off then them this season. We need another 10 years of better performances than them before we can say we are the 4th club in London.
Go back the the Curbishley era Charlton were bigger than Palace or certainly on a par. I think even the most one eyed Charlton fan would agree we have now pulled ahead of them.
Attendance? Yes but then that can be skewed. Palace have size constraints West Ham don't. Sunderland are a one town club where London has at least 8. So Sunderland are the only game in town.
History? Nothing wrong in being proud of you history but there are many northern towns whose clubs were big before the war but are now perennial lower league participants.
Success? I suspect this is the best measure. A mate once suggested that a big club should win one trophy at least every 10 years. I think this is the best measure.
We are currently in a purple patch but we are not bigger than West Ham we are just better off then them this season. We need another 10 years of better performances than them before we can say we are the 4th club in London.
Go back the the Curbishley era Charlton were bigger than Palace or certainly on a par. I think even the most one eyed Charlton fan would agree we have now pulled ahead of them.
Runningman
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Not many One Eyed Charlton fans. But plenty with Three Eyes and webbed fingers !
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The one eyed man is King of Charlton.
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It’s just a shame we couldn’t add them to the having a party having a ball song because they have actually won the fa cup, which is annoying 🤣
For those interested, that's how Ollie explains his move to Notts. I'm not quite sure, if this iss whats he intendeted when he talked about a "new challenge"!
Nottingham is no “joke” for Glasner
Oliver Glasner has been in post as Nottingham Forest’s new “Sheriff” since Tuesday and intends to pick up at his new club where he left off at Crystal Palace. Even though Glasner is the fifth manager in a year to be appointed by the eccentric club boss Evangelos Marinakis, he is not afraid of being shown the door: “I didn’t sign here just for a laugh.” Rather, he wants to make history once again.
On 6 July, Nottingham Forest’s management let the cat out of the bag and presented Glasner as Vitor Pereira’s successor. It came as a surprise to many: on the one hand, because Forest had reached the semi-finals of the Europa League under the Portuguese manager, and on the other, because Glasner had previously seemed all but certain to take over as the new manager of top Italian club AC Milan.
“It’s been a mad summer,” Glasner reflected in an ORF interview during his first official appearance as manager in Nottingham. He said he’d received enquiries “from all over Europe”, but had turned down many of them. Nottingham hadn’t even been on his radar: “Because they’d actually had a good season.” As he was determined to stay in the Premier League (“I think the experience here has helped me develop a great deal as a manager and as a person”), the Forest offer came into focus, according to Glasner.
Sport Aktuell, 16 July 2026
A personal conversation with the Greek shipowner Marinakis finally convinced him to take on the challenge in the heart of England. “For the first time, I’ve found someone who is a bit more ambitious than I am,” said Glasner. On top of that, the club’s squad has a great deal of potential: “I found that combination incredibly interesting and exciting.” Signing the three-year contract, reportedly worth €15 million a year, was the logical next step.
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The boss’s expectations and his own are clear to Glasner. “We want to bring consistency and stability,” said the 51-year-old, after Nottingham shone on the European stage last season but spent a long time battling against relegation in the Premier League, eventually finishing 16th. “It’s important that we aim for the top half of the table. That’s where we want to be and where we want to establish ourselves,” said Glasner, outlining the medium-term goal. The manager left open whether his compatriot Xaver Schlager would help him in this endeavour: “We don’t want to count our chickens before they’re hatched.”
Just as he has done at his previous managerial posts – such as at LASK, the German clubs VfL Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt, and most recently Crystal Palace – the Upper Austrian made it clear that the goals can only be achieved as a team. “We’ll forgive mistakes, because we’re human and we make mistakes. I’ll make mistakes too,” said the coach, “but everything the players do must always be aimed at helping the team. That’s the most important thing. The team comes before everything else.”
Glasner faced the press for the first time in Nottingham two days after taking up his post
Glasner is well aware that, based on recent experience, his new Greek boss is not one for giving his managers a grace period: “But I’m relaxed about it. After all, you don’t get married just to get divorced again straight away,” said the Upper Austrian with a mischievous smile. He is also convinced that Nottingham did not offer him the three-year contract just “for a laugh”: “But of course, we have to deliver. You simply have that pressure at this level.”
In any case, Glasner will have to be judged against past successes. With Eintracht Frankfurt, for example, he sensationally won the Europa League in the 2021/22 season, thereby following in the illustrious footsteps of coaching legend Ernst Happel as an Austrian. Under Glasner’s leadership, Crystal Palace won the 2025 FA Cup – the first title in the club’s history. This year, the London side followed that up with victory in the Conference League.
However, the fact that Crystal Palace fans in particular might hold his move to Nottingham against him is, for Glasner, simply part of the job. “I’m very grateful that I was able to be part of a wonderful journey at both Crystal Palace and Eintracht Frankfurt. But as a manager, it’s normal to go on to sign for other clubs.” In Nottingham, he says, he has another chance to “exceed expectations. That’s the feeling I have here.”
At the very least, the fans of this historic club, founded in 1865, are hoping for a return to its glory days. After all, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nottingham Forest was one of Europe’s top teams. In 1979 and 1980, the club with the distinctive tree in its logo won the European Cup, the predecessor to the Champions League.
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Nottingham is no “joke” for Glasner
Oliver Glasner has been in post as Nottingham Forest’s new “Sheriff” since Tuesday and intends to pick up at his new club where he left off at Crystal Palace. Even though Glasner is the fifth manager in a year to be appointed by the eccentric club boss Evangelos Marinakis, he is not afraid of being shown the door: “I didn’t sign here just for a laugh.” Rather, he wants to make history once again.
On 6 July, Nottingham Forest’s management let the cat out of the bag and presented Glasner as Vitor Pereira’s successor. It came as a surprise to many: on the one hand, because Forest had reached the semi-finals of the Europa League under the Portuguese manager, and on the other, because Glasner had previously seemed all but certain to take over as the new manager of top Italian club AC Milan.
“It’s been a mad summer,” Glasner reflected in an ORF interview during his first official appearance as manager in Nottingham. He said he’d received enquiries “from all over Europe”, but had turned down many of them. Nottingham hadn’t even been on his radar: “Because they’d actually had a good season.” As he was determined to stay in the Premier League (“I think the experience here has helped me develop a great deal as a manager and as a person”), the Forest offer came into focus, according to Glasner.
Sport Aktuell, 16 July 2026
A personal conversation with the Greek shipowner Marinakis finally convinced him to take on the challenge in the heart of England. “For the first time, I’ve found someone who is a bit more ambitious than I am,” said Glasner. On top of that, the club’s squad has a great deal of potential: “I found that combination incredibly interesting and exciting.” Signing the three-year contract, reportedly worth €15 million a year, was the logical next step.
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The boss’s expectations and his own are clear to Glasner. “We want to bring consistency and stability,” said the 51-year-old, after Nottingham shone on the European stage last season but spent a long time battling against relegation in the Premier League, eventually finishing 16th. “It’s important that we aim for the top half of the table. That’s where we want to be and where we want to establish ourselves,” said Glasner, outlining the medium-term goal. The manager left open whether his compatriot Xaver Schlager would help him in this endeavour: “We don’t want to count our chickens before they’re hatched.”
Just as he has done at his previous managerial posts – such as at LASK, the German clubs VfL Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt, and most recently Crystal Palace – the Upper Austrian made it clear that the goals can only be achieved as a team. “We’ll forgive mistakes, because we’re human and we make mistakes. I’ll make mistakes too,” said the coach, “but everything the players do must always be aimed at helping the team. That’s the most important thing. The team comes before everything else.”
Glasner faced the press for the first time in Nottingham two days after taking up his post
Glasner is well aware that, based on recent experience, his new Greek boss is not one for giving his managers a grace period: “But I’m relaxed about it. After all, you don’t get married just to get divorced again straight away,” said the Upper Austrian with a mischievous smile. He is also convinced that Nottingham did not offer him the three-year contract just “for a laugh”: “But of course, we have to deliver. You simply have that pressure at this level.”
In any case, Glasner will have to be judged against past successes. With Eintracht Frankfurt, for example, he sensationally won the Europa League in the 2021/22 season, thereby following in the illustrious footsteps of coaching legend Ernst Happel as an Austrian. Under Glasner’s leadership, Crystal Palace won the 2025 FA Cup – the first title in the club’s history. This year, the London side followed that up with victory in the Conference League.
However, the fact that Crystal Palace fans in particular might hold his move to Nottingham against him is, for Glasner, simply part of the job. “I’m very grateful that I was able to be part of a wonderful journey at both Crystal Palace and Eintracht Frankfurt. But as a manager, it’s normal to go on to sign for other clubs.” In Nottingham, he says, he has another chance to “exceed expectations. That’s the feeling I have here.”
At the very least, the fans of this historic club, founded in 1865, are hoping for a return to its glory days. After all, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nottingham Forest was one of Europe’s top teams. In 1979 and 1980, the club with the distinctive tree in its logo won the European Cup, the predecessor to the Champions League.
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eritheagle
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We could sing the “have you ever…….?” song to them as I doubt they’ll be many still around who did actually see them lift the FA cup in 1947!!