Fucking hell you've got a good memory for shit ex-Nottingham Forest strikers
I can understand you remembering the legendary Pineapple-headed wonder and star of My Name Is Earl Jason Lee, but how the fuck do you know the name Andrea Silenzi?! There are Forest fans who don't know who he is! The therapy to attain such a state costs good money!
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:26, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Do you know Andrea Silenzi
was one of, if not the first Italian striker signed by a Division One club. He cost over a million and was fucking rubbish.

The Forest board clearly thought Serie A was great owing to it being on Channel 4.

Also, did you know that ason Lee had a pineapple on his head?
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Silenzi was, in fact, the first Italian to play professional football in England
It could be argued that Gianfranco Zola was better in some ways, but Silenzi was the first. Which, coincidentally, rhymes with "worst"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:38, Reply)

I thought he was!
I put the qualifier in soas to not look like a knob if i was wrong!
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:40, Reply)

In the context of this conversation we both look foolish enough anyway
as supporters of the club that forked out seven figures for Andrea fucking Silenzi
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:49, Reply)

true enough.
Forest have many firsts - 1st team to win two european cups consecutively
first million pound player.
first italian professional
first player with an exotic fruit for a head
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)

1st BRITISH team
I'm pretty sure Real Madrid managed the two European Cups thing before we did. It is a good point though - no-one has even won back-to-back Champions Leagues, even with the amount of money being thrown at teams to make it happen.

Perhaps my favourite Forest fact is that Notts County are the oldest professional club in Britain, founded in 1862. Forest were founded in 1865. It took the people of Nottingham just three years to work out that County were shite and that they needed an alternative
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 10:02, Reply)

That's a superb fact!

( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 21 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)