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Part two of our exclusive interview with Lee Camp (read part 1 here) is based around questions from our forum members and gives Lee the chance to put an end to some of the stories about him: Is he a Derby fan with a tattoo on his arm to declare his love for the Rams? Who is the best player in a Forest shirt this season? And of course, we finally reveal which book he would read on Jackanory.

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I was fortunate enough to meet up with Lee Camp at the City Ground after training yesterday afternoon where he opened himself up to some questions from our forum members. Part 1 of the interview is below (part 2 will follow on Monday).

In part 1 we cover his loan move from QPR last season, his disappointment at missing out on our battle for survival and go all the way back to his first ever game as a goalkeeper.

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Now then,

Why is being a goalkeeper much like being a soldier in a war? There are long periods of dull inactivity punctuated by heart stopping moments of action when it seems the fate of the world depends just on you.

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Kelvin Wilson is no stranger to Nottinghamshire football. The Nottingham born defender has turned out for teams either side of the Trent, in Notts County and Nottingham Forest.

He is also a man held in the highest regard by his current boss, Billy Davies, who signed Wilson for Preston North End and then for current club Nottingham Forest.

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LTLF poses your questions to Nottingham Forest defender, Kelvin Wilson.

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LTLF introduces the second part of an exclusive interview with Nottingham Forest captain, James Perch.

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The 2008/09 season ended with Forest escaping relegation and climbing the league, James Perch found himself a big part of new manager Billy Davies’ plans, being handed the captaincy, and now, in the first part of his interview, he answers the questions you put to him.

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I thought I would make a quick post to acknowledge Justin Fashanu Day, an initiative by the Justin Campaign to mark the anniversary of the former Forest player’s death.

Justin, one of football’s most tragic figures, committed suicide 11 years ago tomorrow (2 May), hence the commemorative day.

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Now then,

I hate to disillusion young un’s, I don’t feel comfortable with it. It’s too easy to be superior, based on the number of years you have spent on the planet. But when I was with grandsons of a friend on the Red Rec earlier this week and I heard a conversation amongst a group of ten-year-olds about David Beckham becoming the highest England cap-earning player ever, I had to put them right. Never mind Bobby Moore and forget Bobby Charlton. The player with the highest number of England caps of all time was a Forest player.

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Now Then.

There are some days when the sun rises and reflects off the panes of my greenhouse where I grow orchids so red they are like blood flowers and I think life is good and all is well, and then the team I love conspires to lose 5-0 to second- rate opposition and I want to forget football ever existed at all. Sometimes Forest have made me smile and laugh, but more often, the woefulness of our team has physically hurt me. I bite the wife and kick the dog, but nothing really makes me feel better. On dark days like these, I look back and remember other times when nothing seemed to go right.

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Now then,

I am looking forward to March 21st this year. It’s a red letter day. It will be the 113th anniversary of Arthur Grenville–Morris’s Welsh debut against Scotland. In a largely forgotten game, Wales suffered a 4-0 defeat in the British Championship. The year was 1896. It was two years before a triumphant Forest team won the FA Cup, beating arch-rivals Derby 3-1 in front of sixty two thousand fans on April 16th 1898.

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Now then,

For Christmas, a very kind lady bought me a book to read.  It was called ‘Nottingham Forest Cult Heroes’.  Now I love looking back over the years and thinking of all the games I have been to that have sent me from one ground or another, in great happiness or in deep misery.  Reading about players that we have had that played for their country, which excited the fans, which set the City Ground alight: this is something I love to do.

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Now then,

I was meaning to comment on the marvellous results of recent weeks, especially the game against Manchester City, but then something sad happened. We lost a good man.  ‘Chic’ Thomson died.  He was our goalkeeper in the 1959 FA Cup Final; the only time last century that Forest won the cup.

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John Robertson

A Scottish apprentice who got into the first team reckoning and made his first League appearance in 1970, steadily going out of favour with the manager Alan Brown suddenly made a U turn on the arrival of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor. Talent that was raw and hidden by a casual approach to football in general. An overweight smoker who looked like a Sunday league player turned out to be arguably the best winger in the world.

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Nigel Jemson and Mark Crossley were guest speakers at another of The Approach’s “An Audience With….” series.

After a slightly late start, compere Darren Fletcher introduced Nigel Jemson (to a chorus of “who ate all the pies?!”) who proceeded to amuse and enlighten us with stories about his career, many of which, unsurprisingly, involved Brian Clough.

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…Lee Camp that is, the ex-Derby, ex-QPR goalie, who, according to the Forest Official Site, when the deal is done, will be at the City Ground on loan till January.

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