Wait long enough in football and you will eventually see almost everything. Calvin Bassey is a defenders’ defender. He stops opponents scoring. He is quick and good in the air. He is very good at looking authoritative when holding his arms out to craft the offside line. At the other end he offers rather less.
This was the 189th game of the 25-year-old’s senior career and it brought the fourth goal. A year less a week since his only other strike for Fulham, Bassey headed his first goal at Craven Cottage and so Nottingham Forest joined the short list of Falkirk, Volendam and Manchester United as teams he has scored against.
