The town crier of A Block

 

Those Forest Men by Mark Collar‘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…

Cohen gets going in friendly

 

Sean O’Driscoll got the first chance to see his squad in match action this summer with a 4-1 victory over Alfreton Town at the Forest academy yesterday, the big news being that the returning Chris Cohen managed 45 minutes. The prospect of a central midfield pairing of Cohen and new signing Adlène Guedioura is a [...]

Three Wise Men

 

Three Wise Men

The three wise men from lands afar
are guided not by yonder star,
nor are they kings of Orient nations –
just salesmen of refrigeration [...]

Takeover twitterings, but no new club crest

 

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 [...]

LTLF Topic: ‘Kuwait’

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