FOREST GRUMP
While it is unusual for a football club to break news of a managerial sacking on their Social Media Disgrace channels shortly after midnight, if Football Daily had to stake its life on one Premier League outfit doing so, we would have picked Nottingham Forest and lived to tell the tale. Owned by a Greek entrepreneur who has always conveyed the impression he would be happy to take care of business at any hour, there have been suggestions that Forest waited until the ladies and gentlemen of the English football press were tucked up in their beds to announce the departure of Nuno Espírito Santo in a bid to “bury bad news”. Considering this particular bit of news that only seems bad from the perspective of Forest fans has been clearly signposted to anyone who has been privy to the morose and forlorn existential crises that have passed for recent Nuno press conferences, the more plausible – or slightly less implausible – scenario is that rumours of the Portuguese’s imminent demise were already circulating late on Monday and the put-upon Forest FaceTok team were instructed to confirm they had not been greatly exaggerated.
