Articles by Red Hughes
The Ballad of Seven-Three
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
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
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
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 [...]