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Left Stag: May 2026 - The Future Is Amber

Fri 15 May 2026

Was this season the best ever for Mansfield Town FC? Our columnist Joshua Osoro Pickering things it's certainly up there...

Left Stag: April - Everyone's Stags

Fri 17 Apr 2026

As the season trundles towards its conclusion, with Mansfield Town all but mathematically safe and out of all cups, my non-football-fan wife tells me that she misses the tension that she’s become accustomed to in the other seasons since we met!I say non-football-fan,but I don’t think I can really say that anymore…

DIGITAL REALMS - Artists' Exibition & Stage Show

Sun 22 Mar 2026

Left Stag: March - Arsenal in town

Tue 10 Mar 2026

Can the country's finest do it on a mild midday in Mansfield?

Shaking the foundations: Nate Coltrane on the next stages of creative project Our Yard

Thu 05 Mar 2026

If ‘Our Yard’ is a phrase as of yet unfamiliar to you, it’s definitely worth visiting the New Art Exchange this month. Currently, the Hyson Green-based gallery is hosting Our Yard: Foundations – a multimedia exhibition curated by Notts music promoter and community organiser Nate Coltrane, which bookends years of creative work he’s been doing to highlight immigration’s positive impact on the UK. In advance of the exhibition’s launch, Nate walked us through how Our Yard has evolved since its inception.

Theatre review: Midsommer Murders at Theatre Royal is a classic who dunnit with a set stage twist

Wed 25 Feb 2026

Nostalgia and crime merge in Midsommer Murders, currently showing at Theatre Royal...

Left Stag: February - A Rollercoaster Ride

Thu 12 Feb 2026

If a week is a long time in politics, then two months is an age in football. Because of the Burn’s Night Scottish special in January, that’s how long it’s been since we had a proper check in on Mansfield Town’s progress...

From stadiums to stages: Here's what's on in Nottingham this week, 26 January - 1 February

Sun 25 Jan 2026

There are some big, once in a blue moon events this week in Notts, from live jazz and protest comedy to football and theatre.

Left Stag: Dave Smith, Sandy Pate and Anglo Scottish Adventures in Ayr

Sat 24 Jan 2026

With Burns Night on the horizon on Sunday 25 January, we invited our regular Notts County, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest football columnists to muse on the influence of Scotland in the history of their own clubs…

Below, Josh Osoro Pickering - our Mansfield Town specialist - tells a Mansfield-set story of Anglo-Scottish sport...

Left Stag: December 2025

Mon 22 Dec 2025

This season, as I’ve stated before, is likely going to be one of those where we neither struggle at the bottom of League One, nor pull up any trees near the top. We’ll trudge along, winning some, losing some and ultimately ending up somewhere in the middle...

Left Stag: November - The Fading Beauty of the FA Cup

Sat 15 Nov 2025

At the risk of this column being renamed Grumpy Stag, Nostalgia Stag, or In My Day Things Were Better Stag, I’m going to have to moan about something else here...