Championship

STEELE: MY SHOOTOUT SURPRISE

by
The LeaguePaper Team
19 August 2018

CHAMPIONSHIP
LUKE Steele admits he was as shocked as anyone to be Nottingham Forest’s penalty shoot-out hero in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old keeper was thrust into his Forest debut after Jordan Smith’s early red card and went on to score a spot-kick and save Eoghan O’Connell’s penalty for Bury.
“It was a strange situation,” said Steele. “I have only come on once or twice in my career, so to be sat on the bench for the first time and come on is unexpected. “I haven’t scored before, but I missed one about five or six years a...

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