It is complained that the business is so secretly conducted. Doubtless we should all like to know what is going on, but the best interests of the club in such delicate work as strengthening the team won’t stand such publicity, and there’s an end of it. Divided counsels are disastrous and we hope to see complete harmony restored and a spirited policy carried out firmly.

No, it’s not the latest attempt to make sense of the Al-Hasawi ownership scandal from an LTLF opinion writer, but an article published in the Nottingham Evening Post on March 25, 1890, as unearthed by Forum member I’m Red Till Dead.

The ‘Foresters’, recently beaten 12-0 by Small Heath, were trying to build a new team of professional players, but doubts were being raised by anxious supporters over the committee’s plans and the time it was taking to put the new side together.

The article continues: ‘If the supporters of Notts [sic] Forest have not lost all heart they must be the staunchest folk who ever followed the fortunes of a fallen club.’

Plus ça change…

With two large video screens being erected at the City Ground this week, members of the LTLF Forum have been reflecting on the changing face of the ground over the years. Reminiscences of things you’ll never see at the City Ground again include kids standing on crates in the Trent End, advertisements for Zycomm Two-Way Radio and bobble hats with Scottish clubs on one side and Forest on the other.

Here are some photographic highlights:

The old Trent End

Brian Clough’s famous ‘no swearing’ sign

Eighties fashion in the matchday programme

1976/77 team photo poster

The Main Stand ablaze in 1968 (let’s hope we definitely don’t see this again!)

Also worth checking out are suggestions for what the new screens should actually show, including amusing clips from season review videos, various YouTube virals and Brian Clough’s eyes, constantly watching over the pitch.

There are claims being made on Twitter that Thursday (July 12) will see the official announcement and signing of the Al-Hasawi takeover.

Good news if true, and the poster responsible seems well connected with Fawaz Al-Hasawi, even though it’s not entirely clear to an English-speaker what his authority is.

And it was the language barrier that led to some amusing confusion yesterday when Fawaz himself tweeted a photo of what looked like a new, Kuwait-inspired Forest badge.

After what has happened to Cardiff recently, the image understandably caused a bit of a furore on Twitter and the forums, except on the LTLF Forum where most people remembered the image originally being posted as a joke exactly a month earlier by Windows.

His logo was based on the Kuwaiti Coat of Arms, and you have to admit there is a striking similarity between the waves on the two designs, but Mr Al-Hasawi was moved to tweet a denial that he was thinking of changing the badge, much to the relief of everyone.

Some classic LTLF vote-rigging going on today as the official Forest Facebook page canvases on goal music at the City Ground.

‘Chelsea Dagger’, by Bugsy Malone-aping indie pop act The Fratellis, has been blasted out after every Forest home goal for a couple of years now, leading some to comment that our goalless run in December of last year had at least one advantage – that bloody song wasn’t being played!

However, despite general loathing from LTLFers, the Facebook vote is so far coming out in favour of goal music by two to one. Are our curmudgeonly forum members just behind the times? Or is Facebook just full of morons. Let us know what you think by commenting below using your, err, Facebook account…