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Where stars of Nottingham Forest's last Prem campaign are now including Nigel Quashie
Nottingham Forest will travel to Wembley Stadium on Sunday bidding to return to the Premier League after 23 years outside the top flight.Victory over Huddersfield Town in the Championship play-off final would see Forest back in the Premier League for the first time since the 1998/99 season. That campaign ended with the club finishing bottom of the table and being relegated from the top-flight after going through three managers during the season.The Forest side relegated from the Premier League in 1999 featured the likes of Nigel Quashie and Pierre van Hooijdonk, but where are they and other stars of that team now?Goalkeeper Dave Beasant remained at the City ground for another two seasons following relegation before moving to Portsmouth in 2001.Brief spells at Tottenham Hotspur, Bradford City, Wigan Athletic and Brighton & Hove Albion followed before he ended his career at Fulham in 2004.Beasant has since gone into coaching, first as goalkeeping coach at Stevenage before spending three years in the role at Reading before departing in December 2018.The 1998/99 season was Quashie's first at Forest after signing from QPR and the Scottish midfielder would ultimately spend just two years with the club.A nomadic career followed, including spells with both Portsmouth and Southampton before he played out the final four years of his career in Iceland.Since hanging up his boots in 2016, Quashie has gone on to become a coach and runs his own academy, in the shape of the IPDA Football Academy.Mark Crossley also kept goal for Forest during their last top flight campaign, making 12 league appearances back in 1998/99.
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Brit town suffering 'explosion' of massive rats as teen girls scream at rodents
rats has left residents screaming and stamping on them to kill the rodents.Huddersfield town centre has reportedly become overwhelmed with rodents running rampant along its streets and locals desperate for action.Shocking photos reveal how the rats have been brazenly burrowing in plain sight at a bus station while shoppers can rarely head to Tesco without spotting a scuttling creature.According to YorkshireLive, business owners have called on council chiefs to do more to stop the town's growing rat problem spiralling further.One resident blames the boom in vermin on lockdown letting rats freely roam the empty town, others point the finger at people deliberately leaving behind food on the street.A YorkshireLive reporter witnessed one middle-aged man killing two young rats by stamping on them in the vicinity on Saturday night as teenage girls screamed for help.One restaurant owner who didn't want to be named said: "Walk on the bottom side from the market by Tesco towards Bradford Road."They are everywhere in those awful overgrown raised 'planters' the council has placed everywhere."It's not just a problem associated by the bus station, it's across the whole town centre."While Kirklees councillor Andrew Cooper, (Greens, Newsome), who represents the town centre, said: "I am aware that there are people who feed the pigeons and end up feeding the rats."We need to do more to challenge these people and obviously the council's pest control team will need to be aware of it."Stephen Knight who lives in Huddersfield town centre just a few yards from the bus station said: "I think this explosion in the rat population is down to the pandemic which left them free to breed and roam as they pleased."I have seen them and they are massive
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