Steve Cook is a walking tub of petroleum jelly with his head smeared in the stuff. Boxers use it for little cuts, but that must be some severing because it's wodged on his forehead and hair.

Forest back up and running, Bournemouth ball.

I was saying Steve Cook is carrying on following that clash of heads, but the bloke has a right old gash on his forehead and it's seeping blood. More running repairs being undertaken.

Brennan Johnson is just arguing the merits of a free-kick awarded for his bundle into Lloyd Kelly which prompted a Bournemouth award, with Cherries man Nat Phillips.

It's fair to say they disagreed, albeit politely.

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Bournemouth get the ball forward to play the percentages a bit more and Philip Billing releases Jordan Zemura down the left.

He gallops along and crosses, wins a corner. Billing nods down the set-piece but Forest howk it away.

There's been no dwelling or dawdling here. It's full-throttle.

Sam Surridge chests a ball into the path of Brennan Johnson, but the Forest forward - who wasn't even born when his side were last in the top flight, slaps a snapshot over the bar high and wide.

First time we've really seen him do anything. He will be a threat at some stage you'd imagine.

Steve Cook, who unlike Sam Surridge is still warmly received by the home faithful, will carry on for Forest at the heart of defence for the moment.

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18 mins

Bournemouth 0-0 Nott'm Forest

The game is stopped as Nat Phillips and Steve Cook, two uncompromising centre-halves, collide in the box in a shuddering collision.

Bournemouth stopper Phillips is up quickly, but Cook needs a bit of treatment. He's feeling it, it's fair to say.

Ryan Christie heads away a cross from Djed Spence as Forest pepper the home penalty area.

Timely.

Jack Colback and Philip Zinckernagel seek to play it, lose it, but then the Dane takes the ball and drives forward to win a corner.

Forest are growing in stature and belief amid the tension.

SuperSJ: Bournemouth are looking the most nervous!! Misplaced passes everywhere.

Nottingham-born Ryan Yates puts a studded boot down the back of Philip Billing's calf and gives away a free-kick.

Bournemouth strike quickly and look to get ex-Celtic winger Ryan Christie in but he can't control it and Brice Samba in the Forest goal mops up.

Breakneck flow to this. Rapid-fire.

Forest gaining a bit of control in midfield and looking to play through the lines with smart movement from Brennan Johnson and Sam Surridge, but Bournemouth are reading the threat well.

The more James Garner gets on the ball, the better for Forest.

Likewise, the Cherries need Philip Billing and Jefferson Lerma to provide the inspiration amid the perspiration and energy.

Brian Laws
Ex-Forest defender on BBC Radio Nottingham

Talk about a breakaway!

It's a sensational ball from Spence. Surridge has beaten the keeper but he has smashed the crossbar. First chance and first major threat is Forest.

Sam Surridge raps the crossbar for Nottingham Forest on his left-foot, arrowing a shot at goal.

Djed Spence played the ball through, an angled ball in behind which put him one-on-one, but the ex-Cherries striker was unable to finish the chance.

Nice to hear the whole ground united in applause at the seventh minute mark, to mark the news that David Brooks is cancer-free. The 24-year-old is watching from the stands tonight.

Great to hear.

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Bournemouth are the side looking more dangerous at present.

Philip Billing and Dominic Solanke linking up sharply.

Billing then catches Philip Zinckernagel after playing the ball. Forest get a free-kick.

Lloyd Kelly just has a brief chat with Stuart Atwell in his guise as Bournemouth skipper.

Brennan Johnson tumbles on the edge of the Bournemouth box as Forest dart forward, but referee Stuart Atwell waves away any protests.

Then Steve Cook, against his old club, takes out Cherries striker Dominic Solanke. His photos are plastered all around the stadium, as a former promotion-winning skipper.

Neither side has settled yet with all the anticipation, emotion and excitement surrounding this game.

Both sides just testing each other out. It might be a case of who cracks first and makes that error.

Lewis Cook slides a ball in for Dominic Solanke, the ball breaks to Philip Billing who gets Brice Samba working in the Forest goal.

Bit of pressure for Bournemouth here, they win a corner.

"Red army!" is being roared by the home support and Forest supporters follow suit, having belted out their own anthem, a tweaked Trent-tinged version of 'Mull of Kintyre'.

Febrile is the fancy word for this atmosphere. Super-charged.

So here we go.

Bournemouth can go up tonight. Forest can take it to the final day with it all in their hands.

Who will come out on top?

Ninety minutes will tell us.

Teams are out and Dean Court becomes a cacophony of noise.

Here we go.

We're mere minutes away at a packed Vitality Stadium. It's not the biggest ground but the acoustics are ramped up perfectly because of that.

It's tight, it's close to the pitch and both sets of fans are bang up for it.

Scarcely a seat to be had. Boscombe is alive.