So it's been a big day in Nottingham this weekend with the Robin Hood half marathon and the local football derby between Forest and Derby. As an ex-referee myself I feel officials are put under extreme pressure in local derby games and on balance in today's match the referee made some really good decisions but equally just as many bad ones. In the end probably the only really good attacking move resulted in the bragging rights remaining with the visitors although who knows what the result would have been with a different official.

   That's just conjecture but there can be no doubt about the next big thing in Nottingham and that will be the annual Goose Fair which runs from the 3rd to the 7th October. Personally I'll wait another couple of weeks for the more intimate and atmospheric street fair of the older Charter Fair in Ilkeston which marks its 760th anniversary in 2012.