I think the following photo shows just how bad I was feeling:
No matter how bad I was feeling, that cannot be anything compared to the poor health messers Ingram, Caygill and Matty must have been feeling when they got up at 5am (!) in order to get to the City Ground and queue for Brighton tickets.
When they picked me up at about 9 O'Clock, however, they seemed in good spirits...
That said, Caygill was rather tired, hence the cusion...
9am might seem like a rather early time to set off, but the reason for this was that Ingram was due to represent Forest's Internet Football Team (aka the Tricky Trees) - a team made up of members of the unofficial Forest mailing list who regularly take on fans from rival clubs' mailing lists and forums - at half past 11.
We arrived just in time and Ingram then showed of his alarmingly small shorts, leaving us needing therapy for weeks!
Sadly, Forest lost the game by three goals to two against a well organised Watford side.
During the game, myself, Caygill and Matty went off in search of some food which took us on a misguided tour of the town of Bushey...
After nearly half an hour of searching, we found the Frying Squad - a greasy spoon fish 'n' chip shop where we lunched.
After the IFC game, we set off to Watford itself and spent an hour or so in the Moon Under Water pub before getting into Vicarage Road itself.
The game was reasonably entertaining. Forest were poor in the first half, and thrilling in the second. Watford are a big, strong side and all-too-often the Reds' defence gave them too much time on the ball, allowing them to put dangerous crosses in, eventually leading to the goal.
Up front we were lacking options with DJ out injured, and it was only when Marlon and Huckerby went upfront as out-and-out forwards in the second half (instead of Marlon dropping back onto the right wing) that Forest started creating chances. Marlon picked up a knock which seemed to slow him down, but he still managed to battle his way through to open up the chance for Huckerby to score...
Special mention should go to Andy Reid for a superb performance which caused Ingram to not shut up about how good he was for the whole journey home.
So it was mission acomplished and Forest had secured a credible point away from home. The traffic getting out of Watford was terrible and it took us nearly an hour to get back onto the motorway, but from then on it was clean sailing with Derby-Leicester on the radio.
