"Colin came on in difficult circumstances and, although he had to pick the ball out of the net only a couple of minutes later, he came and took a couple of crosses and I thought he was terrific," said Megson.
The Forest boss again finds his build-up to a big game hampered by incidents outside his control after waking up this morning to see stories of his players' alleged 'rowdy' behaviour on a night out in Nottingham on Tuesday making the national press.
Forest have promised an internal inquiry into the complaints that they have received from members of the public.