Happy Friday folks. It’s a press conference one today, which means we’ll get Arteta and Dyche having their say on the evening kick-off under the lights tomorrow as we travel up to the City Ground. And the nerves are starting to kick in for me, having had a week off and two cup games to make one feel a little more jovial about watching The Arsenal. The Chelsea game was fun, albeit a little frustrating. We conceded the second, but Forest away gets us back on to chewing on our sofa pillows as the Premier League continues to be the big cheese we all want to sample.

As usual I did my habit of going to have a look at a few Forest fan forums to see how they’re feeling, which gave me a little bit of hope, because they aren’t exactly bullish ahead of this one. Some of the quotes I came across were:

Can’t look beyond a comprehensive loss where we barely touch the ball and they win by a 3+ margin

and

Hope I’m wrong but reckon we’re in for an absolute hammering. Arsenal to have 80+ % possession, we’ll barely get out of our half...