Nottingham Forest 1 Swansea City 0

The Championship match between Nottingham Forest and Swansea City at the City Ground on Saturday March 6th, 2010.

While the old adage that there is no place like home certainly applies to Nottingham Forest the East Midlands club may also reflect that charity also begins at that same location after seeing off one of their closest promotion rivals at the City Ground.

During their previous five away games, Forest have amassed as many points as they have goals - precisely zero - but their fine form in their own backyard continued with this tenth successive league win on the south bank of the River Trent.

A goalkeeping clanger by Swansea's Dorus de Vries in the first minute of time added presented the victory to Forest that hoisted them back in to the automatic promotion places behind Newcastle United, now seemingly the champions elect.

But a glaring error of equal magnitude by referee Colin Webster was also pivotal in Swansea's first defeat in 13 matches, their last reverse also being inflicted by Forest at the Liberty Stadium last December.

Darren Pratley, released by substitute Cedric van der Gun's pass, was poised to secure a 73rd minute lead for the visitors when full back Chris Cohen tugged the midfield player to the floor, a tackle that would have merited a red card had the match officials spotted the incident.

Their failure to punish Cohen was compounded when Forest were awarded a disputed corner, Swansea claiming offside against Dexter Blackstock, which Lewis McGugan floated into the six yard area in the 92nd minute.

De Vries misjudged its flight badly and as it sailed over his groping hands, centre half Luke Chambers, only starting because of injury to Kelvin Wilson, headed the winner which appeared to stun the scorer as much as Swansea and Paulo Sousa.

"Week by week, not just once, we are on the wrong end of decisions," said Swansea's Portuguese manager. "I hope somebody can explain it because it's difficult to understand. The whole ground was shocked, everybody saw it. These mistakes have cost us a lot of points when we could be in the automatic promotion places."

Forest manager Billy Davies agreed that Sousa had every right to be unhappy with the officials but by then his team should have been ahead.

George Boyd was denied a goal on his debut when De Vries's legs blocked his right foot effort but later in the first half, Cohen was profligate when he volleyed high and wide after Paul Anderson's clever turn and centre had invited a more composed close range finish at the far post.