Simon Jordan has revealed a hidden motive for Nottingham Forest to get promoted this season through the play-offs after they narrowly missed out on automatic promotion.
The Reds' fell to a 1-0 defeat on the south coast in a fixture crucial to either side's aspirations of automatic promotion. Forest needed to win in order to leapfrog the Cherries into second-place going into the final day, but the narrow loss ended the Reds ' chance of automatic promotion with Bournemouth celebrating a return to the top-flight instead.
Forest dominated the first half at Dean Court and were harshly denied a penalty when Sam Surridge was brought down inside the area and incorrectly deemed to be offside. Fortunes changed after half-time and Bournemouth snatched the winning goal seven minutes from time when Kieffer Moore tucked home a quick free-kick from Philip Billing.
