Barry_Cooper published Barry Cooper: How do you solve a problem like Nottingham Forest's...

ALMOST a week on from the news that rocked Nottingham Forest to its core with leading striker and the effervescent Britt Assombalonga ruled out for at least a year, the Reds were involved in a remarkable battle in Blackpool.

Not for months have Forest been involved in a game with those levels of entertainment, I'm not even sure that events at the iPro Stadium could quite share the drama that was witnessed on the Lancashire coast.

What it showed, certainly in the second half was that under...