The end of an error at the City Ground. Perhaps that is the only thing the club have got right this season, if you’ll forgive the hyperbole. It is one thing to appoint the wrong manager for the wrong reason, but quite another to double down on that mistake by refusing to accept where you went wrong. The best hope is that this will all be a fever dream memory in a couple of years with Nottingham Forest still in the top flight.

The mess remains, publicly daubed across the stadium. We are two months into a league season and Forest have sacked one manager immediately before an international break and sacked another immediately after one. To be employing a third before the clocks go back makes the phrase “permanent manager” distinctly oxymoronic.

You can reasonably argue that this vision went

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