I don't think we'll get rid of him for some of the reasons you've stated, but at what point mid season do you say enough is enough?
Clearly if we were in relegation trouble he would be sacked, but we're not and will thus get this season at the least, and I'd be pretty surprised if he didn't get all of next as well, unless everything really does fall off a cliff from here. If, as Chairman of a club, you are going to appoint an inexperienced but promising young manager to a level he has never managed at before, you have to expect up and downs, experimentation and so on, and you are going to give him the max time to work through that, otherwise it was a pointless appointment in the first place. So you would only get rid early if there was a serious relegation risk, like with Hyppia. We're not there so even if it ends up being a very disappointing season, he gets the opportunity.
The way I read it was he handles the ball as a result of being brought down by Minteh. Had Hooper not awarded the penalty I suspect VAR would have. We would then be looking at a potential sending off offence with the player having a goal scoring opportunity.
Very kind of you to say, as an older fan it’s as important to be respected off the field as it is to be a canny team on it, we had some proper doings in the last three seasons, yesterday was our day in the sun.
Slightly unfair, we breached PSR and openly admitted it, took the punishment and appealed which was unsuccessful, whereas Everton wrote off 200m, admitted nothing, Chelsea sold hotels to themselves and Manchester United wrote off 40m due to covid and got away with it, and Leicester where do you start.
same thing happened to me.
So was I.
Yes, the real moneybags clubs have demonstrated they really are 'above the law'.....
As I spent most of my younger days in East Leake, Forest have always been my second team so I do wish you the best for the rest of the season. I did have to drive home with my Forest-supporting brother - fortunately he didn’t gloat too much
