Football is an emotional game that can showcase a whole spectrum of emotions from the highest of highs, to the lowest of lows.

It is the passion for the club a fan supports that gives them access to a range of feelings that no other sport can begin to comprehend.

Supporters are the lifeblood of a club, and they will react with shock, awe and total delirium and each and any decision made.

Horror at a bad choice, elation at one that benefits the many, over just the last five years there are bound to be several occasions that brought supporters to a standstill and made them react with disbelief and total bemusement.

And Nottingham Forest are no different to any other club up and down the country. 

It’s safe to say that over the years at the City Ground, there have been some pretty delightful and unnerving moments at the club.

With that said, here are four of the most shocking moments at Forest in the last five years.

The tenure of Fawaz Al-Hasawi at Nottingham Forest promised so much, yet delivered so little. 

Inept, clumsy, clueless management had seen the Forest owner squander over £100 million during his reign at the helm of the City Ground.

Having spent money and blaming others for the shortcomings, Forest were in somewhat of a rut they were struggling to get out of.

Plenty of investment saw no return with disappointing seasons year after year despite starting well before an idiosyncratic Forest collapse.

There was a three-to-five-year plan to get Forest to the Premier League, but during that time the club were no closer to a top ten finish let alone the Premier League in what was a shocking spell for the Tricky Trees. 

On July 1, 2014, Stuart Pearce was appointed the manager of a club at which he made his name.

Forest had an unbeaten start obtaining 13 of 15 points available before being nominated for the August Manager of the Month award from the Football League.

It all looked rosy at Forest; things were going well they even climbed to the top of the league after a win away to Sheffield Wednesday at the end of August.

Their form would fall off a cliff managing just three wins in 21 matches after their 11-game unbeaten run.

The poor run of form went from October to the end of January and included a cup defeat to Rochdale before Pearce was sacked on February 1, 2015.

It was a shock at how quickly Forest deteriorated after the initial fanfare and excitement at the start the club had made.

In Fawaz Al-Hasawi’s final year as the club’s owner, Forest had a shocker of a campaign.

Going through three managers: Phillippe Montanier and Gary Brazil; both in charge before Mark Warburton came in in March to try and keep the club up.

He did so, but it was a shocking way in which it occurred.

Forest were battling it out with Blackburn Rovers for Championship survival heading into the final day of the season.

The season ended with the two clubs level on points and Forest surviving literally by the skin of their teeth.

They remained in the Championship by virtue of their goal difference being two better than Blackburn’s who were relegated.

It was a shocker of a campaign from start to finish before a miraculous ending kept the club in the division.

This summer there was hope of a Nottingham Forest revival with Aitor Karanka embarking on his first full season in charge of the club.

There were steady signs of recruitment through the summer, but the longer the window went on, the more shocked Nottingham Forest fans become.

Five signings became six; seven became ten before Forest racked up 16 new additions between July and the end of August.

In what was an unprecedented number of incomings, this was one of the more shocking moments in Forest's in recent history.