Plus: non-football athletes wearing football crests on their kit; and teams who were sponsored by news organisationsMail us any of your questions and answers “Chelsea are firmly in the title race despite what their manager says,” wrote Will Nichols before Christmas. “But who was the last team to win the English top flight without a shirt sponsor? Has it been done more recently in another country?” Chelsea’s conscious uncoupling from the title race doesn’t change the fact that this is a cracking question. Let’s start with the English top flight. Knowledge regular Dirk Maas has trawled the brilliant True Colours website – which, if you are the type of person who reads this column, is likely to be an endless source of serotonin – to find the answer: Aston Villa in 1980-81. Not content with using only 14 players (if you’re under the age of about 40, let that sink in) all season, they didn’t have a shirt sponsor either. Brighton & Hove Albion British Caledonian Coventry Talbot Everton Hafnia Liverpool Hitachi Middlesbrough Datsun Cleveland Nottingham Forest Panasonic Southampton Rank Xerox Stoke Ricoh Continue reading...

Nottingham Forest have performed well above expectations under Nuno Espirito Santo this season and are challenging for European football as they sit level with Arsenal in second place in the Premier League

Nottingham Forest have won six straight Premier League matches and are within six points of Liverpool - their next opponents - and Neco Williams is feeling confident

Head coach expects quiet January transfer windowSlot ‘very happy with the team … they deserve club’s trust’ Arne Slot believes Liverpool have shown they possess the quality and depth to sustain a quadruple challenge and avoid the tail-off that Jürgen Klopp’s side suffered last season. Liverpool’s defence of the Carabao Cup continues at Tottenham on Wednesday in the semi-final first leg. With a six-point lead in the Premier League, plus a game in hand over their closest challengers Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, the only 100% record in the Champions League and an FA Cup third-round tie against Accrington Stanley on Saturday, Liverpool have legitimate designs on four trophies in Slot’s debut campaign. The team were in a similar position 12 months ago but a poor end to the season ruined Klopp’s hopes of adding to the Carabao Cup victory over Chelsea. Slot is confident there will be no repeat. Continue reading...

Nottingham Forest host Liverpool next week and can close the gap on the Premier League leaders to just three points by claiming a win over Arne Slot's charging side

Players and journalists look back at the 1990 FA Cup third-round tie between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest.

When Nottingham Forest face Liverpool at the City Ground next week it will be one of the most unlikely top of the table clashes.

Vítor Pereira says he is "proud" of his Wolves side because they "tried everything" against Nottingham Forest in their 3-0 home defeat at Molineux.

Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo is pleased with his side's performance as they record a sixth successive Premier League win with a 3-0 victory over Wolves.

Just as Wolves had started to dream of a brighter future under Vitor Pereira, it was the ghosts of the past that haunted Molineux as their former head coach Nuno Espirito Santo and academy product Morgan Gibbs-White snatched the points to send Nottingham Forest level with Arsenal. Wolves were unbeaten under Pereira and were the superior side for almost the entirety of the match but as they saw chances come and go, while portraying Gibbs-White as a pantomime villain, it seemed inevitable what the outcome would be. Nuno took Wolves into Europe and is plotting the same trick with Forest after a sixth victory in a row, sealed by goals from Gibbs-White, Chris Wood and Taiwo Awoniyi. Continue reading...