Over to the lawyers. With both sets of players unable to land a blow that might have proved decisive in determining which – if either – of these clubs will play Championship football next season, it now falls to some of the country’s finest legal minds to dictate who will fill the relegation spots over the international break.
The verdict in Nottingham Forest’s hearing into financial breaches is expected to be announced imminently, which may well send the Midlands club plummeting from their current precarious position of safety.
