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SEASON 2025/26 game 38 May 24th 2026
 Nottingham Forest 1MGW 33  AFC Muffs 1Tavernier 53
Highlights and Lowlights of the Final Day
The John Robertson Stand celebration made the hearts swell a bit.
The City Ground looked beautiful. The place seems to glow in the sunshine.
MGW's goal was spectacular, again. It made me wonder who was working out these moves in training - the coaches or MGW himself. I suspect the latter. I hope somebody sends a clip of his 10 finger celebration to Thomas Tookle, to be played every time England fail to inspire.
The Muffs may be a decent enough team, and Iraola may be a decent enough manager, but both may have peaked. The Europa League will test them - the Champions League would have destroyed them - and we'll see whether Iraola can get a better job than Palearse.
It was good to see Man City go out on a low, losing 2-1 to Aston Villa. It was stomach turning to see Silva and Stones given a guard of honour by both teams when they were substituted in the second half. Like everything at the Etihad, it smelled of fraudulent manipulation. I'm surprised Unai Emery agreed to it. Or am I? Anyway, Pep's gone, perhaps slipping away before 115 hammers smash his legacy to bits.
Talking of all things suspicious, Everton's capitulation to Spurs stank to high heaven. Either "arrangements" were made, or Moyes has ended up doing the usual Moyes thing - starting off okay then reducing a team to ambition-less robots. They packed it in ages ago, so Spurs couldn't have met a more compliant opponent on the day.
What was slightly amusing about this final day was that, despite media attempts to hype the crap out of it, it ended up being a bit of a dud. Brighton caved in as usual. Burnley and Wolves drew but nobody came. Arse didn't need to beat Palearse, but they did, probably out of habit. Newcastle and Liverpool continued to disappoint. Chelsea quietly rotted. Leed did their best to help Wet Hams, and some quite obnoxious Spursy podcasters continued to whine in that nasally way they have despite their team's survival. There was an awful lot of meh in the air.
We acknowledge that this season has been tough, that too many mistakes have been made, but we remain persuaded that Forest are one of the more proper, honest clubs in the League. Next season, amid the institutional incompetence, corruption, financial and emotional manipulation and dishonest hype, we hope that the honest clubs find a way to thrive. We hold no such hopes for the World Cup, which drowned in the Trumpfantino swamp before it was even born. That should be fun.
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