Nottingham Forest are already this season’s Premier League surprise package but could they upset leaders Liverpool again in Tuesday’s top of the table clash?
“I love the fact that they could do the double over Liverpool after beating them at Anfield in September,” said BBC Sport’s football expert Chris Sutton.
“Forest – who I may have mentioned before were my boyhood team – are absolutely flying with seven straight wins in all competitions. Of course they will think they can get something out of this game too.”
Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against a variety of guests.
For the midweek matches in week 21, he takes on actor Rory Kinnear, star of new film Bank of Dave 2, and the real-life person his character is based on, Burnley businessman Dave Fishwick.
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger is out on Netflix now. It is the sequel to the story – told with some artistic licence but based on true events – of how Fishwick, a self-made millionaire, opened his own bank to help out people in his hometown. Part two focuses on the payday loan industry.
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Kinnear is a lifelong Celtic fan, but they only became his team by mistake.
He explained: “I stayed in my cousin’s old childhood bedroom in Edinburgh when we went to visit them, and there were pictures of players in green and white on the walls.
“I came back home to London and looked up who the team in green and white in Scotland were, and saw it was Celtic. I thought, right, if Johnny supports them then I will support them. That was me, from about the age of four.
“It was only many years later that I realised that they were Hibs players on the wall, and I had got the wrong team.
“He still supports Hibs, and we have been to a few Hibs-Celtic games together, so it now provides a nice little rivalry within the family.”
Kinnear narrated Gareth Southgate’s essay to England fans, external for Radio 4 when the Three Lions reached the final of Euro 2020 and Euro 2024, but he admits his international allegiances are “complicated”.
“My mum is Irish and my dad was Scottish, while I have lived nowhere but England,” he added.
“I support Scotland over England, Ireland over England and, if Ireland and Scotland play each other, I want it to be a draw.
“That’s the same for the Six Nations as well as football – my granddad played rugby union for Scotland and the British Lions in the 1920s and then was one of the first ever dual code internationals when he moved to play rugby league for Wigan, and scored in the first Challenge Cup final at Wembley in 1929.
“So, Scottish rugby certainly takes a place in my heart, probably over any other, but what discounts me from being a true Scottish or Irish football supporter is that I don’t mind England doing well as well.”
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