2007–08 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Nottingham Forest

2007–08 season
Chairman	Nigel Doughty
Manager	Colin Calderwood
Football League One	2nd (promoted)
FA Cup	Second round
League Cup	Second round
Football League Trophy	First round
Top goalscorer	League: Junior Agogo (13) All: Junior Agogo (13)
Highest home attendance	28,520 vs Yeovil Town (League One, 3 May 2008)
Lowest home attendance	3,102 vs Peterborough United (Football League Trophy, 4 September 2008)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2007–08 season was Nottingham Forest's third consecutive season in League One. The season was regarded a success with the team gaining promotion back to the Championship at the third attempt.

Forest's players were also successful on an individual level in the 2007–08 season, with Julian Bennett and Kris Commons in the PFA League One Team of the Year, while Paul Smith ended the season with 24 clean sheets in 46 games, the record for the league in that season. This achievement was recognised when he received the Puma Golden Glove award.

Supplier: Umbro
Sponsor(s): Capital One

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Source: Wikipedia Nottingham Forest Article

In the 2007–08 campaign, Forest were named title favourites for the third consecutive year. Calderwood signed five players in summer 2007, most notably former Celtic captain Neil Lennon on a free transfer. Also captured were left-back Matt Lockwood from Leyton Orient, Preston North End defender Kelvin Wilson and Yeovil Town duo midfielder Chris Cohen and attacking winger Arron Davies all signing for undisclosed fees.

Forest started the 2007–08 campaign by failing to win in their first six competitive games. The Reds drew three times and lost 2–1 at home to rivals Leeds United, as well as losing 3–2 to Peterborough United in the Football League Trophy. However, Forest then hit an eight-game unbeaten run in the league (including five wins), scoring seventeen goals in the process. After losing to Luton, Forest went on another unbeaten run, this time of six games in all competitions. This briefly took Forest to the top of the league table over Christmas, the first time they had been top all season.

But they lost top spot as they failed to win away from home, in a run lasting seven games. After moving back into second place, Forest's away form once again was found lacking, which allowed Carlisle and Doncaster to overtake them into second and third place, respectively. Forest went on to collect just one win in seven games.

However, they turned their form around, and after being 11 points behind second-place at one point. A win Carlisle saw Forest then win six out of their last seven games of the season. Forest, who had only been in the automatic promotion places once all season got promoted to the Championship on a dramatic last day of the season, by beating Yeovil 3–2 at the City Ground to secure second place. The Reds kept a league record of 24 clean sheets out of 46 games, which helped them end their three-year spell in the league's third tier and gain their first promotion in ten years.

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
17 July 2007	Ilkeston Town	A	5–0[permanent dead link‍]	Thornhill (2) 48', 58', Sinclair 79', Brown (2) 83', 89'	1,180
18 July 2007	Rushden & Diamonds	A	1–1	Davies 90'	1,210
21 July 2007	Chesterfield	A	0–1		2,796
24 July 2007	Kilmarnock	A	3–1[permanent dead link‍]	Holt (3) 19' (pen.), 39' (pen.), 51' (pen.)	2,524
26 July 2007	Dunfermline Athletic	A	1–2[permanent dead link‍]	Sinclair 24'	1,756
28 July 2007	Motherwell	A	0–0		2,505
30 July 2007	Notts County	A	2–1[permanent dead link‍]	Chambers (2) 4', 85'	7,070
31 July 2007	Derby County	A	0–2		25,159
4 August 2007	Sheffield United	A	0–1[permanent dead link‍]		5,676

The statistics for the following players are for their time during 2007–08 season playing for Nottingham Forest. Any stats from a different club during 2007–08 are not included.

• Grant Holt's red card was for two yellow cards
• Nottingham Forest also had two own goals scored for them during 2007–08

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Football League Trophy		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Paul Smith	46	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	52	1	0	0
2	DF	Kelvin Wilson (vc)	40 (2)	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	45 (2)	0	4	1
3	DF	Matt Lockwood	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	1	0
4	DF	Luke Chambers	40 (2)	5	3	0	2	0	1	2	46 (2)	7	3	0
5	DF	Wes Morgan	37 (5)	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	41 (5)	1	6	0
6	DF	Ian Breckin (c)	22 (6)	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	25 (6)	1	6	0
7	MF	James Perch	19 (11)	0	1 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	21 (13)	0	1	1
8	MF	Kris Commons	29 (10)	9	2 (1)	1	2	0	1	0	34 (11)	10	2	0
9	FW	Nathan Tyson	26 (8)	9	3	2	1	1	1	0	31 (8)	12	2	0
10	FW	Grant Holt	22 (10)	3	1	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	24 (11)	3	5	1*
11	FW	Scott Dobie	1 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2 (1)	0	0	0
11	FW	Will Hoskins	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
12	MF	Garath McCleary	3 (5)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3 (5)	1	0	0
13	MF	Felix Bastians	0 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2 (1)	0	0	0
14	MF	Arron Davies	9 (10)	1	1 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	10 (12)	1	2	0
15	MF	Chris Cohen	40 (1)	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	44 (1)	2	5	0
16	MF	Sammy Clingan	40 (2)	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	44 (2)	1	6	1
17	MF	Lewis McGugan	25 (8)	6	3	1	0	0	0	0	28 (8)	7	5	0
18	MF	Neil Lennon	15 (3)	0	1	0	2	0	0(1)	0	18 (4)	0	4	0
18	ST	Brett Ormerod	13	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	2	0	0
20	GK	Dimitrios Konstantopoulos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	FW	Junior Agogo	27 (8)	13	1 (2)	0	1 (1)	0	1	0	30 (11)	13	0	0
24	FW	Emile Sinclair	0 (12)	1	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (14)	1	0	0
25	MF	Alan Power	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
26	MF	Matt Thornhill	5 (9)	2	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	5 (11)	2	1	0
27	DF	Brendan Moloney	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
28	DF	Joe Heath	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	DF	Julian Bennett	33 (1)	4	2	0	2	0	1	0	38 (1)	4	8	0
30	GK	Dale Roberts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Mark Byrne	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
32	GK	Shane Redmond	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF	James Reid	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	GK	Barry Richardson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	DF	Hamza Bencherif	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
12 June 2007	MF	Neil Lennon	Celtic	Free
5 July 2007	DF	Matt Lockwood	Leyton Orient	Undisclosed
6 July 2007	MF	Arron Davies	Yeovil Town	Undisclosed[1]
6 July 2007	MF	Chris Cohen	Yeovil Town	Undisclosed[1]
16 July 2007	DF	Kelvin Wilson	Preston North End	£300k
22 January 2008	MF	Garath McCleary	Bromley	Undisclosed

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
23 January 2008	FW	Scott Dobie	Carlisle United	Nominal
30 January 2008	FW	David Brown	Bradford City	Free
31 January 2008	MF	Neil Lennon	Wycombe Wanderers	Free[2]

Date From	Date Until	Pos.	Name	From
8 February 2008	13 April 2008	FW	Will Hoskins	Watford
7 March 2008	4 May 2008	FW	Brett Ormerod	Preston North End
25 March 2008	4 May 2008	GK	Dimitrios Konstantopoulos	Coventry City

Date	Pos.	Name	To
5 July 2007	GK	Paddy Gamble	Stalybridge Celtic
1 October 2007	DF	Hamza Bencherif	Lincoln City
1 October 2007	MF	Felix Bastians	Chesterfield
22 November 2007	FW	Emile Sinclair	Brentford
22 November 2007	DF	Tom Sharpe	Bury
22 November 2007	MF	Alan Power	Grays Athletic
4 January 2008	MF	Felix Bastians	Notts County
10 January 2008	DF	Brendan Moloney	Chesterfield
11 January 2008	DF	Tom Sharpe	Halifax Town
23 January 2008	GK	Dale Roberts	Rushden and Diamonds
14 February 2008	MF	Felix Bastians	Milton Keynes Dons
20 March 2008	FW	Grant Holt	Blackpool