Forest History

Five players who should never have left Forest

by , July 29, 2013
The Glory of ForestOften in football you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, with a forgettable squad player suddenly surprising everyone when he excels at a new club. But sometimes it works the other way round, with the player wishing he’d stayed where he was.

With the likes of Lee Camp, Chris Gunter and Wes Morgan leaving the club in the last 12 months only to be linked to quick returns, here is a list of the five players who must most wish they had never left the City Ground...

‘Never let your mam down’ – Brian Clough to the rescue

by , May 30, 2013
Scene: Trent Bridge, Nottingham, September 1980. A small crowd of about 15 people are watching as STEPHEN FOSTER clings desperately to the River side of the iron railings watched by PC LEE SUMMERS. Another PC stands between SUMMERS and the crowd. FOSTER is hugely distressed and is crying. A Mercedes car slows and stops alongside. BRIAN CLOUGH winds down the car window, thinks better of it and emerges from the car and approaches SUMMERS. The crowd murmur [...]

City Ground bygones

December 21, 2012
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 [...]

Me Owd Duck on Nene Park

by , October 12, 2012
Tomorrow is Non-League Day in England, where fans are encouraged to spend their Saturday afternoon at a non-league game in lieu of watching their regular team. Me Owed Duck reflects on his visit to a ground that has been home to two non-league sides, both of which have run into financial peril...

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 [...]

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Brian Clough, 1935-2004

by Alex Walker, September 20, 2004
"I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed - I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me." - Brian Clough OBE, MA Brian Clough will be remembered as one of the all-time greats, not [...]

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