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King keen to add to Gills' woes

Tony Hudd
Tony Hudd
MARLON KING: facing his former team-mates
MARLON KING: facing his former team-mates

GILLINGHAM, having lost five of their last six matches, travel to Nottingham Forest tonight looking for a win to ease their relegation fears.

Priestfield old boy Marlon King will be looking to make things worse for Gills by following the established football tradition of scoring against a former club.

King said: “We know Gillingham have got a few injuries but you cannot take anything for granted. You know from the sort of club they are, that everyone is going to give 100 per cent and they will make it hard for us.

Forest are currently in the relegation zone, and King stressed: "It could be a big game psychologically because it would give everyone a massive boost if we can get a win and get out of the bottom three at the same time."

Gillingham's David Poulton and Tommy Johnson will miss the game at the City Ground after picking up injuries in the home defeat by Reading last Saturday.

Tonight's match is the first of two games against Joe Kinnear's side in the next ten days.

The KM Group's chief football writer Tony Hudd can't overstate the importance of the coming games, as he told KM-fm...

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