With the changing of the clocks and the darkening of the skies, the mood of football fans often seems to take a nosedive. Is this, asks Tony Morgan, what caused Sean O’Driscoll to get sacked and does it explain the recent backlash against Billy Davies?

Tony Morgan tries to make sense of a season of contradictions and paradoxes at the City Ground, a place where things are always changing but everything stays the same (or something like that...)

With Forest failing to score in a third successive game, Paul Severn looks at why our strikers haven’t been living up to expectations and suggests that our midfielders need to shoulder some of the blame...