Articles by Red Hughes

Three Wise Men

July 22, 2012
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 [...]

The Ballad of Seven-Three

March 23, 2012
It was a dull and dreary night But not one week before When ’gainst opponents dressed in white The Forest failed to score Nor even make a half a chance To satisfy their fans And stood as if put in a trance To lose against the Rams [...]

Ode to Wes

January 31, 2012
Both immovable object and unstoppable force, allowing nothing to knock him off course in pursuit of the ball no matter the cost and never conceding the battle as lost [...]

Stranger than fiction

August 5, 2011
Sometimes in football it's no contradiction To say that fact is stranger than fiction, For no author could have ever prophesised The summer's events down on Trentside. No wonder they call it silly season As events unfold without rhyme nor reason [...]

Summer’s here

June 6, 2011
Summer’s here, hip-hip-horay! We’ve earned ourselves a long holiday After yet another year of lows and highs Thank God for no football in June and July [...]