FOX: WE WILL MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME

SKIPPER Danny Fox has vowed that this won’t be another lost season for Nottingham Forest.

As speculation about manager Aitor Karanka’s future increased, Fox expressed his anger at his side’s sorry display at The Den, which capped a miserable Christmas for the club.

In four full seasons since he joined from Southampton, initially on loan, in January 2014, Fox has seen Forest finish between 11th and 21st every time.

Not once has the club seriously threatened to regain the Premier League place it lost in 1999.

Fox said: “Our aim is still promotion but if we don’t start performing we’ll be nowhere near it. A team that wants to get promoted needs to win four, five, six, seven, eight games on the bounce.

“We need to start doing that as soon as possible, otherwise it’ll be another season gone.”

Ryan Tunnicliffe’s overhead kick in the ninth minute earned three points for the Lions, who should really have won more easily.

Tunnicliffe’s wonder strike (above) made it six points from six ahead of tomorrow’s visit to bottom club Ipswich.

The 26-year-old midfielder said: “I don’t score many like that in training – I don’t think many people do.

“We’ll go to Ipswich with the same mentality we have for every game – start fast with a lot of energy and see where it takes us.

“Nine points from three games doesn’t come around too often in this division.

“Hopefully we can do that and get our first away win.”