Nottingham Forest are Magic - Student Documentary by Ruby Naylor
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Twitter- @rubytnaylor
My thesis/dissertation/capstone documentary is about the football club that my whole family supports, Nottingham Forest, and how deeply rooted the club is in the supporters’ lives. It aims to connect with the people of Nottingham and those who support Forest, while also being able to reach a larger, American audience who may know know the club or understand what it's like to support an English football club.
You can find so many videos recounting the European Cup glory days, but the true backbone of this club deserves its moment. I did my best to capture the endless passion that these fans feel for our reds. English football culture truly is so unique and inherent in everyone’s way of life, but there is something a little special about us and the unrivaled energy and atmosphere created at the City Ground.
It’s common knowledge that the City Ground is a fortress. Love us or hate us, you can’t deny the electricity that is seldom missing at home matches, not to mention the TIFOs that put every other clubs’ to shame. Through relegation battles, FFP/PSR hits, VAR controversies, and even having one of our players’ names on the Epstein list, the supporters and the City Ground are so consistent. Mull of Kintyre never wavers. Managers and players come and go, but the fans have never left and will never stop demonstrating how much this club means to us all.
On this note, our desire is always to be here, you have to know how this would affect the community that Forest has worked so hard for so long to create. Renovate, rebuild, but do not move the City Ground. It would tear at the heart and soul of this club, of who we are.
While I know this will never be perfect and I know there’s always going to be things I want to change, I am proud of the work and many hours that I have put into this. I hope it’s as enjoyable to watch as it was to create. - Спорт
As Ruby's dad, I couldn't be prouder of her and this incredible documentary. Each time I watch it, I find something new that makes my eyes "malfunction" (thanks for that term, @CaptainGrumblebum). I'm deeply moved by the wonderful, positive comments from viewers, and knowing that the documentary touches others so profoundly makes my eyes malfunction all over again.
Watching it takes me back to the '70s, sitting in the main stand with my dad, our season tickets in hand, just behind Brian Clough. I can still feel the intense emotions when Liverpool set foot on our hallowed ground-the only team that truly concerned me back then. Little did I know that one day my daughter would create a documentary about my beloved Forest. Life is truly amazing... and we're still in the Prem! #NFFF #COYR
I know what you mean James about Liverpool. I still remember 1-1 draw on Boxing Day in 1977, probably the best game of football I’ve witnessed.
Had me in tears, what a great job she did....YOU REDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My daughters are only 10 and 8, but if one of them hasn't made a documentary about Forest by the time they're 21, I'm going to be INCREDIBLY disappointed in them.
@@samfuller4450 LMAO!!!
James I've been a Forest fan since 1978 when I bet my dad 10p that forest would beat Liverpool in the 1978 league cup final but it's quite strange really in all that time I've ever only been to the city ground 10 times the first game I went to was against Coventry city in 1991 when teddy sherringam scored the winning goal I went with my penpal who would you believe was a Derby county fan my penpal treated me to the game she even paid for my ticket and as an added bonus she knew one of the stewards and I got permission to go to the tunnel and get some autographs I got Roy Keane's Nigel Clough even big Norman who will know was Mark crossley it was fantastic as you will know we won the game
Thanks Ruby.... I'm a Malaysian who's been supporting Forest since 1977.My dream came true when in January 2020 i went to City Ground with my 2 sons watching their game against Reading.The Championship game ended in 1 all draw.I hope I'm able to come to City Ground again and watch them playing in the Premier League .I hope they conquer Europe again, hopefully I witness that in my life time.COYR.....
Nice job Ruby. I’m a Nottingham lad born & Bred. Living in West Virginia. My first game at the world famous city ground was Boxing Day 1963.
I’m a Forest fan born and raised in Nottingham, I’ve lived in Melbourne for the last 12 years, and even though I’m almost as far away as someone can be, I’ll always be here to support the reds. Loved this, what a doco Ruby, you really hit the nail on the head.
Saw my first game in 1966 (lost 2-1 at home to Newcastle) and then followed home and away until 1998 when I moved away from Nottingham, so saw all the European glory under Clough. Now follow vicariously through TV and Forest Focus podcast and always impressed by Ruby's contributions.............but this tops it. Brilliant. Well done.
This is incredible. This is what separates us from the elite. Real fans who support their team every week and make coming to a football match everything it always has been and should be. I'm a forest fan from ireland. You reds
What a fantastic piece that was. Im 63 now and have been so lucky to have seen us win the league at Coventry followed by 10 trips to Europe including both European cup semis and finals all the Wembley fa cup and league cup finals and have spent literally thousands of pounds over the years following our great club home and away. However one of the most emotional and heartfelt joy moments for me was witnessing the thousands of our younger supporters at long last after 23 years of waiting experience the absolute joy of finally winning promotion in the play off final giving them a taste of what a lot of my lot experienced so many times back then. Actually chocked me up to be honest.
Me too!
Brilliant Ruby, send it to Mr Marinakis to help keep us at the world famous City Ground 👍🏻
Its not big enough
As a fan who was fortunate enough to be at the Bernabeu in 1980 (sold my first car to buy the ticket), it is vitally important that the younger generation understand the history of this great club and it gives me great comfort that Ruby will take this love and understanding forward. Excellent piece of work
Loved Collymore's comments.
September 26th 1970, Forest v Leeds. I was nine years old. I lived about 15 miles away from the City Ground. A couple of friends said "We're going to watch Forest". I said to my mum "Can I go and watch Forest?". It was a terrible game, it finished 0-0 but Forest had me. 53 years later and they still have, there's been good times and bad, but I'm still here. We've all spent a king's ransom following them, but what adventures we've had. Wembley on numerous occasions, I was in Munich on that glorious night. I wasn't at Wembley for the play off final though (I could have got tickets in the Huddersfield end, should have risked it), I was watching at home with my daughter who, in the last few years, has watched with me and taken Forest to her heart. If we won, I had it planned, I was out in the car blasting out 'Just can't get enough', a sixty plus year old man doing this. When the whistle went, that plan went out of the window, I put my head in my hands and cried. Someone once said to the great Bill Shankly "Football is like life and death to you, isn't it?" Shankly replied "No, it's more important than that". Bill knew. Great video, well done.
Massive…. I am from Bangkok, Thailand yea also a Forest fan. This is a passion I wanna sense by myself. Every time there s a get-together, the native fans always tell the wonderful stories at the city ground and matches over there. It s something many Thai Forest fans have never sensed but dreamt of. Thank you for the documentary…. Now it s also spreading in Thai Forest fan club. You reds, mate
Hopefully when we get the new 50000 seater stadium you’ll get your chance brother
Become aware of Rubys work on the Forest Focus podcast, she always speaks so well and knowledgeable on Forest, so when this came up on my feed had to click. What an amazing little documentary - when I was a young man I went to the City Ground every week, driving from Northamptonshire and standing in the Trent End. Unfortunately one car crash driving up and some other medical issues took their toll and I’ve not been back for a such a long time. This video made me feel that passion and love again, tickets are hard to come by now but hopefully will get back soon, with my daughter.
I loved this documentary. Some of by fondest childhood memories come from watching Forest with my dad at the City Ground. I now live in Japan with my wife, but I still try to follow every game. Perhaps the game which means the most to me was the 3-2 win over Leicester in April 2011 and the little run of wins we put together to end the season. This came just a few weeks after my town had been devastated by a tsunami. In the days that followed I suddenly found myself at the centre of an intense global media storm as a “tsunami hero” which was something that never sat right with me as my natural reaction to adversity is always to dig deep and work hard. Forest were my release during this time as I listened to the radio broadcasts and for some reason those memories have really stuck with me.
Wow! What a story @bobbybailey3012.
Amazing work 👏
You absolutely nailed it Ruby. Turning left from the bridge over the Trent. The second chorus of Mull of Kintyre after the music stops. The clatter of seats when we counter-attack. Celebrating with strangers when we score. And the fact we all think Forest are magic, even if we are battling for 17th in the Premier League.
Wow she seems very smart and knowledgable- i had no idea about nottingham but now im a fan!
You have made a wonderful documentary , It's been a emotional watch for me , but an immensely rewarding one. Well done Ruby, You have managed to capture a little piece of the magic. You have a very bright future ahead of you!
What a brilliant film Ruby! You are a credit to your family and the club. You Reds!
What a magical documentary encapsulating and articulating what Nottingham Forest is as a club and in the wider footballing fraternity. This documentary should be on the NFFC website and should be viewed on the biggest of platforms. If anybody didn’t know; they do now. Fabulous. Unqiue. Youu Redss!!
@NFFC1979 Encapsulating
Ruby - that was just a brilliant watch. You captured everything it means to me as a lifelong Forest fan. The pride, the emotion, the bafflement (at times) the sheer enjoyment as the club overcomes its latest hurdle. They should show this in the dressing room to all our players.
Brillant.
Well Done Ruby. An excellent film. You should be so proud of yourself. You Reds.
Great job Ruby! It's very difficult to get across what the clubs means to some people and what it means to families without it feeling a bit false and contrived but I think you nailed it. You should be very pleased with what you have created.
When she says 'and this is the world famous city ground' I very nearly cried.
I did!
Got my first season ticket as a 6 year old back in 1988 and instantly fell in love. With thank to my late uncle who funded them season tickets for the years that followed.
My late uncles got a brick in the wall ( the engraved ones.) This was my way of making his memory last at the city ground and my way of saying thank you, not just for the season tickets, not just for the cup games, not just every programme that he got me at every home game, not just for creating those memories, especially those European nights under Clark but for making me a Forest fan.
Forest can take you to the heightest highs but can also take you to the lowest lows.
Being a Forest fan is never easy but we are passionate and getting promotion back to the premier league had me in tears. Now with this great owner and the ambition he has, that we all have. Its time to show the world that despite being asleep for a little while, this sleeping giant is still here and he slowly waking up.
Great documentary Ruby. #nffc #coyr #nowthenforeverforest
I have just had a granddaughter, and this wonderful documentary brought a tear to my eye at the end. How I can't wait to take her to the world famous for the first time and let her feel what I feel at every home game. This football club runs deeper than just football, it's more than that, much more, it's all of you, the supporters that make it what it is. The City Ground has football God's as its ghosts, and many supporters souls who went before us all, who are no longer here today, they all roam around unseen at every game, they are there though, I feel them and I know true supporters feel them too. What we have is special, this amazing piece of work shows the world why it's "always to be here" and only here. Bravo Ruby, fabulous stuff.
Absolutely fantastic work. As someone like yourself who doesn't get to many games due to location (albeit not as far as you), this really resonated with me, and it hits what it is to be a red! Well done
As a man of 45 years, I do not cry, at all. I must admit that I had a small tear during this, as it reminded me of where we have been and where we are now.
I can't believe you managed to get the best footballer I have ever seen on this, the great Stanley Victor Collymore.
Our club is a very special one. Thank you Ruby.
awesome video, well done
Brilliant Ruby, well done 👏
Thanks to Ruby for putting this together.I am from Ireland and have supported Nottingham Forest since 1979.I have been through plenty of the hard times.In the last 5 years I have traveled over to the City and gone to many games at the City Ground.I went to the Playoff Final and your piece reminded me of the amazing seat I had and the atmosphere of the day.Just behind it though was the semi final game at the City Ground against Sheff Utd .What memories and good times this Club has given me and more to come hopefully.Again great documentry Ruby well Done
Great video, well done.
#NFFC #COYR #FTID
Fantastic!
Wow just wow you reds 🔴⚪️
WELL DONE YOUNG LADY!!! You did our club proud and we as a Forest family are proud of you.. many more blessings in your future
keeep up the fantastic work! 🎉🎉
Very nicely put together
Great work Ruby. Set me off a bit at times 😢😅 We really ARE magic ❤
Hi Ruby ( I was brought here by @ForestFocus) beautiful documentary! I welled up from the opening titles, to the very end and many times in-between🥲. Tears of joy and sadness. Sadness because my Dad died in 2017 due to Cancer, I would have loved to have shared with him our promotion back to the Prem, he took me to my first Forest game sometime around 1985/86 (I would be 6-7 years old), we sat in Executive Stand (the Brian Clough Stand as it is now), I remember how steep and dangerous it was, the smell and the noise, the view of the pitch, it was under floodlights and it looked like something out of a dream, I couldn't tell you who we played but I can tell you it made a mark on me and I've never looked back. I savour every trip to the City Ground, I don't get there as much now as I wish as I live in London but I travel back whenever possible. My Dad used to row for Notts Union Boat Club (the red boathouse just up from the Trent End) when he died we took a boat out onto the Trent and scattered his ashes into the water between the Boat Club and the Trent End, I hope in some way he'll always be with me at every game. You really got across how important the club is, how loved it is regardless of where it might be in the league or how trendy it might be. It's not about stature, fashion or money for us, us Forest fans it's about a love, a desire and respect for what we feel is special and we are special, we are different, we are rebels, WE are Nottingham Forest Football Club x
Absolutely brilliant Ruby, this had me in tears at 66 yrs of age. I lost my Dad on 7 May and I talked in my eulogy about how he took me to the City Ground when I was about 7 in the mid 60's and I've been going ever since. He hadn't been to a game for a long time but that connection will always be there. That (latest) trip to Wembley was unbelievable. It was so LOUD! We were so high up you couldn't hear the ref's whistle. Thank you again x
Well done duck
Spot on Ruby.
My cousin played for Forest, so it was always part of my life. My mother and I both represented female teams in different generations.
We go every week with 3 generations now. I literally can't wait until I can take my grandson, too.❤️🤍⚽️ #WFCG #COYR #FTID
Excellent work Ruby 👏👍
Great work ruby 🙌🏽
Wonderful work Ruby, well done!
Come on you reds.
All I'll say is thanks.
Its difficult to encapsulate what a football club can mean to so many random people, especially from such diverse backgrounds.
I think of the random days I've spent with my dad travelling to whatever grounds we go to, all to see us play awfully and lose. Wembley made up for that. He saw us during the 'glory years', I'd never been until that day. Like a lot of people have said, the experience of that day that myself and my dad had, is something that neither one of us will forget.
I'm really happy to see that you've touched on how it can help people with their mental health, I've struggled all of my life with my MH, but, Forest have allowed me to 'turn off' my head, and actually focus on something else, even if its just for 90 minutes a week. Those people who sit around me are just as much of a help to me and my condition/illness, as any doctor or therapist. They treat me as a Forest fan, not the fat guy who struggles to leave the house as he wants to die.
Thank you for showing what the club means to us.
COYR.
This is brilliant. Well done.
What a brilliant documentary Ruby, well done you. Watching it brought lots of smiles and a few tears along the way, I will most probably watch it again for sure. 👏👏
Lovely film. Well done. COYR!
Special football club. You reds!
Enjoyed that!! Good job Ruby!! YOU REDDDDDSSSS!!!!
Awesome 🙌 U Reds 🌲
Well done, really enjoyed watching that. Bought back lots of memories of Wembley as well as standing up whenever Stan got on the ball!
1957 my first game, gone ever since through playing and working, season tickets, no season ticket, season ticket for me,an my lad at 7 bonding time every other Saturday, sat on the floor outside thee chip shop, fish and chips. Bonding time it was a pleasure through the good and the bad, I just want my son to have some of the good I had🥴 up the reds!🙂
Well done from Australia Ruby. World famous City Ground indeed!
Love it. Great work Ruby. Deserves a 1st!
Had lump in my throat at times watching this. Absolutely wonderful and emotive. Thank you.
This documentary fully made me cry happy forest supporter tears
Fantastic work Ruby. Absolutely captured the magical essence of this amazing club and its amazing supporters! Bravo!!
Absolutely brilliant! Goosebumps every 30 seconds! Truly encapsulates what Forest means to so many people! Well done! 🔴⚪️
Well done Ruby - excellent work - nailed it. You Reds!
Great work Ruby! Loved watching that! 😁
Brilliant, well done. Really got to the heart of what it means to be a Forest fan through great story telling. Excellent work ❤
Amazing! This is exceptional. Well done. Made my eyes malfunction on several occasions!
Class! Love it! ⭐️🌳⭐️
Ruby This is just magic, it conveys all we love about the game, our city and our Forest. I love the way you have presented all of this simply and authentically for anyone to understand. I hope you get a first class honors for your dissertation. It stirred lots of deep emotions within me.
This was incredible Ruby. Amazing job of showing the heart of the club.
I've wanted to watch this since it was first mentioned on The Forest Focus podcast last year... And it did not disappoint!
I was not expecting to get teary eyed, but the fact I did either days something impressive about Ruby's film making or embarrassing about me and my weakness for the club.
Thank you for Sharing Ruby! I hope you got a first!!
Amazing! Great Work Ruby - You Reds!
Really enjoyable. Great job. Exactly how I feel about our great club. Excellent to have Stan too!
Loved this brilliant Ruby just brilliant, like you all our Family are Forest Fans. Fathers sons sisters brothers cousins there must be 20 of us that go ❤❤
fantastic work Ruby
Fantastic educational piece and you're a natural on the camera - you've done our club proud 🌳🔴⚪️
almost cried inside the first minute. so "thanks" Ruby. Honestly, this is a great piece, loved hearing about your story on Forest Focus, and been looking forward to seeing this. Well done!
Really loved this Ruby, gave me goosebumps at times. You really articulated and captured what it means to be a Forest Fan. I've sat here just smiling :-)
Absolutely brilliant. Really enjoyed that and a lot of what fans were saying resonated with me & my son! Well done
Great work Ruby! ❤️🌳
Good job Ruby! You have captured what makes the club so special to us all. Well done!
Brilliant documentary Ruby. Captures everything all us Forest fans feel. Well done.
This is a very intimate documentary, it’s very well researched and delivered! But it’s also true, we are one giant family of Reds fans 👍🏼🌲
Thanks Ruby for this excellent video - made by a Forest fan for the Forest fans. I was a season ticket holder during the glory years, but I have always listened to their games despite leaving the UK in 1981. From blizzards in the the Himalayas to sand storms the Negev Desert, I experienced the agony and ecstasy of being a Forest fan. Enjoy your summer.
Hi Ruby fantastic job, such a great watch, no shame in saying it but the tears flowed, to capture things on film is something many can do but creating emotion is for a select few, well done again 👍❤️
Well that was rather wonderful. Love the description of the world-famous City Ground as a secular version of church, as opposed to a mere stadium, a place of worship, an act of devotion. Just a shame that Steve Cooper didn't feature more directly in the film. We owe him and will always be in his debt, regardless of his sad departure.
when you go abroad and wear your forest shirt ,there is always someone else a forest fan ,they always talk to you about where you from and forest ,no matter where you are ,its great no matter if you not much of a talker ,it always get you talking .its the love of the club ,nothing better
just a note after watching all of it ,,,what a fooking great documentary ,absolutely the best
Brilliantly put together. Totally sums up the city, club and the fans. Stay forever red Ruby 🎉
SUPER SUPER SUPER
Well done Ruby
You put tears into a 48yr old :)
You Reds!!!
Thank you Ruby,
I'm supporting My (OUR) Forest from NZ
And this doco. Has brought our big family together! No matter how far away we may seem..... Thank you.
Wow, the goosebumps I got watching this, it was brilliant, thought provoking and just reminds me what a special club we have in Nottingham Forest. I have supported the club over 45 years, when I lived in England we had a season tickets etc., and I was spoilt watching Cloughies men, McGovern, Robertson, Bowyer, Birtles etc. Thank you so much Ruby you have made my year watching this wonderful documentary. Come on you REDS !!!!!
Beautiful piece on our wonderful club, had slightly wet eyes the entire time
Excellent Ruby, you and your family true reds !
Very emotional and natural, is it the same at other clubs I do not know, but the City Ground is a special place, I can recall taking a car load from Norfolk to an evening game, one in the car had no interest in football at all but as I dropped him off he said "let me know when you are going again I want to come." I have been a Forest fan since 1954 and although I am now in Thailand I will always be a Forest fan and due into Nottingham on the 11th June at 1051, Notts will always be home.
What a wonderful piece of film-making. Tears in my eyes. Ruby, you encapsulate it all. Thank you.
This girl just gets it ❤ COYR
What a magic video! That was Awesome Ruby & very emotional. You nailed what it means to us hardworking families & generations of Nottingham FOReST fans. Some magical fans stories here and memories 🥺 As a lifelong FOReST fan (my first game was at the City Ground in 1978 against Derby!) in the A Block 5 years old with my family and I was hooked. The rest is history.. through to getting off our seat to Stan to being at Wembley 2022 with my son to enjoy the best day ever! You've managed to capture all the Magic of 'what it means' to us to be a FOReST Fan and part of our Magic Reds Family. No matter what the ups & downs, we are together the best fans and Reds family. You & your family should be so proud as we are.👏 COYR!!! ❤🔴✨️
Captured the essence of being a Forest fan,,,,it's mostly downs which means we really appreciate the ups. Well done Ruby, I really enjoyed this
Fantastic Ruby!!!
Well done Ruby! You’ve captured all of the emotions involved with following Forest through the generations. And what a great advert for staying at the WFCG!
Brilliant 👏🏻 🔴⚪️
Wow..well done it's absolutely fabulous ! ❤
Ruby you nailed this!! I literally ran from work at lunch time to get into the Square on time before the players, Cooper, Marinakis spoke! #NFFC