By FF79
June 23 2004

Forest villains! Who are those guys you just loved to hate...or at the very least pitied! Who did you hope never to see in a Forest shirt or felt a wave of relief when their transfer to a rival team was confirmed? Surely it must be time for another list? We've dealt with our unsung heroes, those guys who were so vital to the team, made others look good or who, for some strange, unexplainable reason, just became our own personal Forest faves. Now lets deal with villains!

Who do you wish had never darkened the hallowed City Ground turf? Who made you groan every time you heard their name on the team sheet? Who were glad to see move to Derby or Leicester?! Here's my team - what's yours?

GK
HANS SEGERS - Made me wince at some point in almost every game he played!

DEF
TONY VAUGHN - Racked up more yellow cards than appearance minutes I think!
SALVATORE MATRECANO - "He’s old, he’s slow, he called Mat-re-cano!"
MORENO MANNINI - Didn’t stick around long and for that he almost made my 'favourite players' list!!
CHRISTIAN EDWARDS - So much potential. Could have been a top class Div 1 defender and a Wales international but lost his way and then his place in the Forest 1st team.

MID
SCOTT GEMMIL - I’m sorry, I just can’t stand him! He’s a whiner. His old man was a Forest legend but he’s fallen so far from the tree that I honestly struggle to believe they’re even related!
ROBERT ROSARIO - Yeah, and he was always going to be the answer to our goalscoring problems!
NIGEL QUASHIE - Believed his own ‘the next hot young thing’ press. I’ll never forgive him for stopping trying in a Forest shirt. You NEVER give up when you’re wearing the garibaldi.
GARY JONES - Nice bloke, simply not good enough to play for Forest. Or Div 1 football!

FOR
ANDREA SILENZI - Have forest ever signed an Italian that did the business??
JASON LEE - The crowd favourite chant of ‘He’s got a piiiii-naple on his head!’ says it all really. Top tip - Don’t draw attention to yourself when you’re bloody awful!

SUBS
BARRY ROCHE - Waited and waited and waited for his chance. Then a stray plastic cup messed it all up for him. Well that and the fact he has the coordination of Bambi.
KEITH FOY - Another with all the potential in the world. Sadly, also a desire to become Irelands entry in the Olympic Games Pie-Eating Discipline.
DANNY SONNER - See ‘Gary Jones’.
BRYN GUNNARSON - See ‘Danny Sonner’.
NEIL SHIPPERLY - Probably the Forest player I loathe the most! Scored loads before he joined us. Scored loads since he left us. Did nowt while he was with us. How can he be playing Premiership football next season???
PIERRE VAN HOOIJDONK - He runs Shipperly a close second in the loathing stakes. My detest for Hondydonk is entirely based around his unmitigated arrogance regarding his decision to strike and then try to sue us for lost wages, and is only tempered by the fact that he did play some good football for us. At least he has that over Shipperly.


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