Nottingham Forest manager Chris Hughton says the decision to play artificial crowd noise during their victory over Blackburn was an idea by his coaching staff.
The Reds secured a 1-0 win at the City Ground courtesy of Alex Mighten's deflected strike in the 26th minute although the Reds were indebted to a fabulous penalty save from Brice Samba after the break.
But throughout the course of the 90 minutes crowd noise was played through the speakers in attempt to lift the atmosphere given supporters are still not allowed to attend games due to the coronavirus pandemic.
And Hughton said that his coaching staff were behind the idea.
"My coaching staff, in particular Paul Trollope, remembered the crowd noises being played at one of the stadiums and you don't know what effect it can have," he said.
"What you do know is that it's not going to have a detrimental effect.
"If it's slight margins then it's worth doing.
"The longer it goes without fans, for me as manager, it'll feel very strange when we have them in.
"It seems like I've been here for a long time now, and on no occasion have I had the fortune to play in front of our home supporters - that's something I'm looking forwards to."
Forest have not played in front of their own supporters since March 6 when Millwall won 3-0 at the City Ground. Since then, and following the coronavirus outbreak, every game has since been played behind closed doors.
But there is hope that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give further details as to when fans may be allowed back inside stadiums next week with a target of May already being touted.
