Nottingham Forest’s last game was against Vitor Pereira’s last club. His first match in charge is against another of his former clubs. Maybe that is simply the logical consequence of the managerial turnover under Evangelos Marinakis and the choice of a peripatetic figure like Pereira.
A reign starts against Fenerbahce this evening, Forest playing in European competition on Asian soil. Pereira spent 25 games at the helm of the Istanbul club, which is three more than Sean Dyche lasted at Forest. And that, in turn, was almost three times as many as Ange Postecoglou mustered earlier this season.
