Nottingham Forest - Middlesbrough

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Bumping this as a little reminder it’s exactly 5 years since we said a not so sad goodbye to Chris Hughton with us bottom of the Championship.

Been a bit of an unexpected journey since!

[Plymouth red]

Reading some of these comments about how poor we were. So many of us had written off the team and genuinely feared the worse - Brennan was crap, Yates was league 2 standard. It's still amazing to think how cooper turned it around. As much as being in the premier league has been memorable - particularly that season under Nuno, there is still something about this season that ranks as probably my favourite. I guess it's how unexpected it turned out coupled with the fact we had been out of the top flight for so long. It will take something to replicate the emotions that season produced.

[Liars Bar]

Yeah I saw the memory of that night pop up on Facebook.
Now we’re moaning which Brazilian international defender to play.
What a journey.

[wassy04]

As if that was only 5 years ago, it's been quite a ride hasn't it.

[ac_vodka]

Wish id brought the Yellow/Red kit, amazing year

[wassy04]

Wish id brought the Yellow/Red kit, amazing year

Yeah that is still my favourite shirt, very tight fitted though compared to your average. Maybe that helped their speed...

[ac_vodka]

no good for me then :)

[RyanR]

I bought the highlighter kit in the sale for £15 because no one seemed to want it at the time. I later managed to sell it on eBay for £150 when the demand went crazy. Didn’t want to sell it, but no shirt is worth that much!

[wassy04]

I bought the highlighter kit in the sale for £15 because no one seemed to want it at the time. I later managed to sell it on eBay for £150 when the demand went crazy. Didn’t want to sell it, but no shirt is worth that much!

Ha I actually don't think I would take £150, too much nostalgia.

[Reds73]

Bumping this as a little reminder it’s exactly 5 years since we said a not so sad goodbye to Chris Hughton with us bottom of the Championship.

Been a bit of an unexpected journey since!

Imagine that night saying to yourself we would in the next 5 yrs

Get promoted
Fa cup semi
League cup semi
Europe League semi
Finish 7th
Have the 13th most valuable squad in world football
Sell a player for a British record
Buy players for 50m

Unbelievable journey, and this is just the start

[BomberBowyer]

Bumping this as a little reminder it’s exactly 5 years since we said a not so sad goodbye to Chris Hughton with us bottom of the Championship.

Been a bit of an unexpected journey since!

Imagine that night saying to yourself we would in the next 5 yrs

Get promoted
Fa cup semi
League cup semi
Europe League semi
Finish 7th
Have the 13th most valuable squad in world football
Sell a player for a British record
Buy players for 50m

Unbelievable journey, and this is just the start

Spot on!

[Paplane]

Do we reckon we could now sustain ourselves in the prem now if EM buggered off and sold up? How much of our recent success is down to the Big Man alone and how much is down to our historical success and where we are in the football hierarchy?

By the very nature of the running cost/status of owning a premier league club football club the new owner would undoubtedly be a very wealthy foreign individual or individuals, so it might not be just down to the size of the wallets of the new people.