Archive for March 2012

The Ballad of Seven-Three

by , March 23, 2012
It was a dull and dreary night But not one week before When ’gainst opponents dressed in white The Forest failed to score Nor even make a half a chance To satisfy their fans And stood as if put in a trance To lose against the Rams [...]

Me Owd Duck on ‘Nobody Ever Says Thank You’

by , March 13, 2012
Clough biographies have tended to be personal recollections by journalists who knew or were used by the great man at the time like Duncan Hamilton or Tony Francis. Wilson is a reporter from Sunderland who now writes for the Guardian and this claims to be the first full biography of Clough from birth to death. It is a monumental and scholarly work, some 550 pages long, and Forest fans have to read through 350 pages before Nottingham is mentioned other than when Clough scored a hat trick at the City Ground as a player [...]

Innocent bystanders

by , March 7, 2012
In my last contribution to LTLF, a call for a bit of pragmatism from the fans in the face of difficult circumstances, I made the bold statement, ‘I don’t think Southampton will find us an easy game on Saturday.’ And what goes and happens? A pathetic 3-0 defeat at home, as easy as they come for the Saints. After that I haven’t dared write again for fear of jinxing things any more, but last night really was a worst-case-scenario result and nothing to do with my ramblings, so I think it’s safe to venture out into public again [...]

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What shall we do with the sulking failure?

by Alex Walker, November 29, 2004
Oh dear. It seems we have upset Joe Kinnear a bit, and now he’s threatening to take his ball home if he doesn’t get his way. In his most recent interview (how kind of him to make the effort of speaking to the press, especially after a defeat) he [...]

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