‘Those Forest Men’ is a unique football book that mixes the history of the club with personal reminiscences, written by local author and regular LTLF contributor, Mark Collar (aka Me Owd Duck). In this exclusive extract, Mark profiles a familiar voice in the A Block...

Football songs hold a certain attraction for me. It stems from the sound of a few thousand people singing in unison, a sound that I've always felt captures raw passion and delivers a feeling of union and bonding. It’s a magical thing to hear and often the sheer grandness of it can definitely send a tingle down your spine [...]

LTLF editor Alex Walker takes a look at the songs that formed the basis of a host of terrace favourites, tracing their origins from Cuba to South Africa, via some funky punks and a bit of a cockney knees-up...