Articles by Andrew Brookes

Dougie Freedman

How Nottingham Forest’s unbeaten run compares

Could Nottingham Forest’s 13-match unbeaten run be a blueprint for next season? Andrew Brookes takes a look at six previous runs over the past decade and wonders whether Dougie Freedman is just a couple of players short for 2016/17

Chris Cohen

The return of Chris Cohen

Having completed 45 minutes for the Under-21s against Barnsley on Monday, Chris Cohen is hopefully on the road to recovery at Nottingham Forest. Andrew Brookes has been thinking about the kind of player he might become after injury

Michael Frey

Nottingham Forest and the ‘nearly men’

Striker Michael Frey and goalkeeper Ben Hamer now join a long list of ‘nearly men’ at Nottingham Forest after failing to complete transfers to the club. Andrew Brookes puts his thinking cap on and comes up with a first XI of players who missed out on becoming regulars at the City Ground