The last 12 months were jam-packed full of special moments on the banks of the Trent. Each one a marker on Nottingham Forest’s path to success and their elevation to the Premier League.
It felt entirely fitting, therefore, that the Reds should start the new year at home; the place which encapsulates so much of what the club is about under Steve Cooper and which was right at the heart of an incredible 2022. The City Ground will be central to how this year pans out, too.
Forest might not have got a New Year’s Day win over Chelsea, even though it would have been entirely deserved. But what they did do was once again show the progress they are continuing to make. ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ didn’t ring out at the end, but this was still one of those occasions to savour; one with a brilliant second half performance against one of the league’s big boys amid an electric atmosphere. And the point which Cooper’s men came away with at the end of it might not have lifted them out of the relegation zone, but it demonstrated they do have it within them to get out of there.
