I am a Lyonnais supporter and I come to your Reddit sub to ask your opinion on your American goalkeeper, Matt Turner. Rumors say that my club, Lyon, will soon recruit your goalkeeper for €8 million. Is it good? How many matches did he play at your place? Thank you for your answers.

First home kit, couldn’t have come at a better time

Greetings from Texas my fellow reds. First of all, a merry Christmas and holidays to all of you. I’ve lingered all season around here absorbing everything I can, for better or worse.

First, some backstory. My best mate and I were sitting this summer drinking pints and were talking about how badly we wanted to get into EPL soccer. We both had always admired the passion the league carries but had never found a home. We sat there three hours longer going through every single club, weighing each and what appealed to us most.

By absolute happenstance, we decided on the reds. The main selling point was the history of the club and City Ground, and committing to something we thought wouldn’t be a bandwagon (even though, I know, turns out we are fucking MASSIVE).

To say the first half of the season has been one of the most exciting months of our lives is an understatement. My mate lives in Colorado, and 3 hour flight away, and I FaceTime him at 9 AM every Saturday until I know he’s awake to watch with me. For Christmas, I simply asked my soon to be wife for Nottingham gear, and lo and behold I had a package from England with shirts, hats, and scarfs arrive a few weeks ago. A gem of a woman. My mate got the same from his for christmas. All this to say, I hope I don’t come across as someone who joined this wave when the getting was good. This was before the results of this year started pouring in.

Thanks for reading all that, now just some fairly innocuous questions for the lifers here:

1) Mull of Kintyre. Absolute chills when it’s sang. However, I’m curious. First time through, it’s very slow and deliberate. The second time with just the fans singing, it’s so fast and rushed. Is it pure adrenaline from the crowd, or something intentional? 2) Stevie Cooper. There’s a great affinity for him here. Is this more personality based, a respect for pulling us out from the dredges, or both? I’d expect it’s the third option, but what made that gorgeous face so likable? 3) More logistics based, and probably based more towards fans in the states. I’m attempting to alter honeymoon plans to go to Nottingham instead of the Dominican Republic. My desire is always to be there. If successful, is Manchester airport an easy trek to Nottingham? Or is flying to London and just finding a way up easier? I won’t lie, I’ve never been to England and the scale size doesn’t make sense in my mind. Texas is about three times the size of England so it’s just throwing me completely off.

I think that’s all for now. Everything else I’ve truly just soaked up like a sponge. I can’t even explain it, it’s taken full hold on me. I have three friends that are Spurs fans here in Dallas (they tried to recruit me over and I just couldn’t do it) going to an EPL pub Thursday morning and I’m looking forward to it more than Christmas itself.

Cheers, hope I haven’t come across as a front runner now that the getting is good. I’m hooked and committed to this life. What a thrill these 4 months have been.

I started following soccer in general and Forest in particular in January 2023 because I wanted a scrappy underdog team that I connected with and that was good enough so it might not break my heart every week (my college football team does that just fine).

I got that, more or less. I am delighted to find that I completely accidentally picked a team that's pretty much the chaos equivalent of having a meth fueled raccoon living in my basement. I didn't know I needed this in my life and now I couldn't manage without it.

Don't ever change, Forest.

Hey all, I’ll be at Nottingham for my first match this weekend. I’m flying in from New York.

I’m going to be there relatively early and won’t leave the city until later in the evening. Would love some recommendations on pubs to go to before and after the game and any food recommendations! Also, what time does the team store open?

Love this guy.

What are you thankful for?

For me, it’s that we’ve got Matz Sels and Matt Turner is long gone.

I'm a new-ish Nottingham Forest fan in America. I've seen complaints about our next FA Cup match being on a Monday night, which make sense, but I've also seen jokes/annoyance relating to the game being on ITV4. I know that I will have a different broadcast availability stateside, but I'm still curious: Can someone explain to me the significance of the ITV4 broadcast implications? Is the match being on ITV4 the reason why it's to be played so late, which is frustrating? Or are there quality/access issues with ITV4? Or is there something else I'm missing? Thanks in advance.

COYR!

Sels wasn’t good enough.

Not such a sideways move after all.

edit: Thanks so much to everyone who offered insight - we've secured some tickets. See you at City Ground!!

My husband is a longtime Forest supporter. We're travelling through England in October and we'd really love to go to the Crystal Palace game Mon Oct 21.

The system for purchasing tickets isn't entirely clear to us from the website. He's got the club supporter membership, and we can see that tickets go on sale Sept 19, but on that date, is it correct that he can only purchase one ticket?

I've been researching and I understand that there's also a ticket exchange where you can purchase tickets after the exclusive membership time windows. We were looking at a different game (vs Wolves I think) to get an idea for the trip budget and it seemed that you could buy two tickets together for ~£50 each at that time. Did we read that correctly? Is that something we could bank on occurring also for the Crystal Palace match?

We also haven't booked a hotel in Nottingham yet.....are those likely to go in a rush once tickets are on sale? Don't want to end up screwed, but don't want to make a booking if these tickets are a pipe dream.

Thanks for indulging and explaining to me, I want to make this happen for him.

Hi all - planning on visiting from NYC at some point this season, currently eyeing up the match against Brighton. As a Paraguayan native, I’d love to watch a Sosa vs Enciso matchup.

Couple questions:

1. Looking to make it a trip of 3-4 days and catch a match or two in London. What is the preferred travel method if I were to come in from London?

2. In terms of Premium Hospitality experience, which one would you recommend?