Forest History

Me Owd Duck on Larry Lloyd’s book

by , February 23, 2012
Larry Lloyd's Hard Man: Hard Game is one of the best accounts of Forest's golden years that I have read. I think Lloyd benefits hugely from having a female ghost writer. At the risk of being sexist, it just allows one of the hardest men I have ever met to admit to all sorts of things that I am not sure he would if he'd have played it safe and used a male sports journalist to help him write the book [...]

Me Owd Duck mourns

by , February 9, 2012
Death holds no favours, death does not discriminate between those who have wasted their lives drinking, taking drugs and smoking. Death comes but once and it is final. Death is unfair. It takes the best and the worst that mankind has to offer and does not discriminate between them. Death cannot distinguish the good from the bad. Death knows nothing of heaven and hell, it is a black hole that awaits all of us. Your god can find your lost luggage afterwards [...]

Me Owd Duck on a pioneer

by , May 9, 2011
Sam Widdowson Football as we know it was not suddenly invented, it was developed over a period of time by a number of pioneers and one of the greatest of these was Samuel Weller Widdowson [...]

Matchday Memories: Forest v Celtic, 1983

by , March 11, 2010
...The most astonishing thing is there’s about 20 Celtic fans climbing the floodlight pylon, not out of malice, but to get a better view. The astonishing part is they’re wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirts. Absolute loonies!...

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Me Owd Duck on a pioneer

by Mark Collar, May 9, 2011
Now then, It's well known that the oldest club in the Football League is Notts County. The second oldest club is Nottingham Forest. Formed in 1865 in the Clinton Arms pub in the aptly named Sherwood Road, the decision to stop playing Shinty and [...]

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