Food on offer includes Rollover Hot Dogs (£4), Meat & Potato Pies (£3.30), Chicken Balti Pies (£3.30) Cheese & Onion Pasties and Sausage Rolls (£2.40). But it does have good acoustics if your fans burst into song prior to the game starting. The concourse behind the stand is a little tight for space and can get quite crowded. The stewarding was friendly and laid back on my last visit, with the visiting fans standing throughout the game and even with a smoke bomb going off at one point. But saying that the atmosphere at the City Ground can be a bit hit and miss at times, although the close proximity of Forest fans to the away section does lead to a lot of banter.
Inside the ground, the upper tier of the stand overhangs the lower tier somewhat, again helping to further generate some noise. The view of the game is good from this section and the leg room is ample too. If demand requires it then an additional 1,000 away supporters can be seated in a lower block of the Brian Clough Stand. The facilities and view of the action in this stand are good. Visiting supporters are housed on one side of the lower tier of the Bridgford Stand (towards the Brian Clough Stand), where around 2,000 fans can be accommodated. The artists impression above of how the new stand will look is courtesy of the Nottingham Forest FC website, where more information and a promotional video can be found. Once completed the capacity of the City Ground will rise to around 36,000. If planning permission is granted in early 2020 then demolition of the existing stand will begin in May 2020, with the stand complete for the start of the 2021/22 season. If planning permission is granted early in the new year, then the club intends to start the demolition of the current stand at the end of this current season. A nice feature is that the stand will also include a Club Museum as well as a new Club Shop.
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This all seated, three-tiered stand will also have a number of executive boxes and other corporate facilities, plus new changing rooms and press facilities.
The Club announced in December 2019 that it is seeking planning permission to build a new 10,000 capacity Peter Taylor (Main) Stand, along one side of the ground, replacing the existing stand which dates back to the 1950s.
In the City Centre in the old Market Square is a bronze statue of the legendary Brian Clough. Facing this is a smaller and much older Peter Taylor Main Stand (built in the late 1960’s) that now looks quite tired in the company of its shiny new neighbours. Once called the Executive Stand, it was recently renamed the Brian Clough Stand in honour of their greatest manager. On one side there is a similarly impressive two-tiered stand, with executive boxes in between, which was built in 1980. One unusual feature of the stand is that running across the middle are a number of rows of seating enclosed within a covered shaded glass area. It is a large two-tiered stand that looks quite smart. Opposite, the Trent End, is the most recent addition to the ground. At one end, the Bridgford Stand houses away fans in the lower tier it is odd because one-third of this stand was built lower than the rest, due to a local Council planning requirement to allow sunlight through to the houses in nearby Colwick Road. Both ends were re-developed during the 1990’s, much improving the overall appearance. The ground from a distance looks quite picturesque sitting on the banks of the River Trent.
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