By Kevin Bethell
November 28 2002

Nottm Forest manager Paul Hart rubbished rumours today about being lined up as next Leeds Utd boss. Nottingham Forest boss Paul Hart has rubbished rumours he could be the man to replace under-pressure Terry Venables as manager of Leeds.

Having led Forest to 3rd place in the 1st Division under difficult circumstances this kind of speculation is bound to surface, but Hart has said he is very happy to remain at Forest:

"We've made significant progress at Nottingham Forest but I'm not a hit-and-run person by nature," he revealed.
"I'm very ambitious, but I've always wanted to fulfil my ambitions through hard work and loyalty".

Hart is delighted with the progress at Forest with a possible place in the Premiership at stake this season, he went on to say:

"I could walk away from here feeling satisfied with the job I have done, both as academy director and manager.

"But I'd like to be successful at the job I'm doing now, which probably means promotion.

"Although if you know what's gone on at Forest in the past few years you could quite easily say this season has been a success in itself."