Blackpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2012

Result

Blackpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2012, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Blackpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest: match report

Blackpool drew with Nottingham Forest 2-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 23 October 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.

Billy Sharp opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Blackpool's goals came from E. Grandin (70') and Gary Taylor-Fletcher (75'). Nottingham Forest scored through Billy Sharp (24') and Dexter Blackstock (90').

Discipline: Blackpool received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackpool were 14th on 16 points from 11 and Nottingham Forest 12th on 17 points from 11. Blackpool went on to finish that season 13th with 60 points, and Nottingham Forest 8th with 67.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackpool wins, 3 draws and 1 for Nottingham Forest.

Going into the match Blackpool's last five read L-L-W-L-L and Nottingham Forest's W-W-D-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Goal · Billy SharpNottingham Forest · 0-1
  • 44'Yellow card · Chris CohenNottingham Forest
  • 63'Yellow card · Ian EvattBlackpool
  • 70'Goal · E. GrandinBlackpool · 1-1
  • 75'Goal · Gary Taylor-FletcherBlackpool · 2-1
  • 90'Goal · Dexter BlackstockNottingham Forest · 2-2

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Blackpool 4, draws 3, Nottingham Forest 1.

Team news

Blackpool line-up

Stephen Crainey, Neal Eardley, Alex Baptiste, Matt Phillips, Tiago Gomes, Ludovic Sylvestre, Isaiah Osbourne, Tom Ince, Matthew Gilks, Ian Ross Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher

Nottingham Forest line-up

Danny Collins, Greg Halford, Yuki Takahashi, Simon Gillett, Chris Cohen, Andy Reid, Radoslaw Majewski, Simon Cox, Patrick McCarthy, Lee Camp, Dan Harding