Woo-hoo, indeed. Blur’s Song 2 blared as Forest Green Rovers added an unthinkable fifth goal in the third of eight added second-half minutes. The top of Spring Hill on the edge of Nailsworth, a Cotswolds market town, may seem an unlikely setting for an early-season six-pointer at the bottom of the Football League pyramid but on a bright afternoon Forest Green halted a run of six straight League Two defeats to rout 10-man Colchester 5-0 and flip the narrative around a club that have long been comfortable in their own skin.
“You vegan bastards, you know what you are,” was the early chant from the visiting supporters. Forest Green are also the source of great intrigue, hence the delegation from Borussia Dortmund, here to understand the club’s sustainable ethos. Feyenoord are coming next month. “They are here to learn about the things we have done and how they can apply those things back at their club,” says Forest Green’s chairman, Dale Vince. “It is the kind of thing we have done before and it is for us to do that because we are not just here to play football, we are here to try to change the world. Sport is a platform for change.”
