If at first you don’t succeed, then try, and try again. West Ham's Tomas Soucek had already squandered two chances to settle this topsy-turvy contest by the time a third fell his way, first poking against the crossbar on the stretch, then seeing a desperate header bounce down and agonisingly up over the crossbar off the fingertips of Odysseas Vlachodimos in the Nottingham Forest goal.
You cannot keep a good man down, though, particularly when James Ward-Prowse will insist on serving cross after cross on a sixpence, and from West Ham’s ninth corner, amends were made, Soucek again straining to guide low into the bottom-left corner.
