LTLF Topic: Derby County
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 [...]
Me Owd Duck on ‘Nobody Ever Says Thank You’
Clough biographies have tended to be personal recollections by journalists who knew or were used by the great man at the time like Duncan Hamilton or Tony Francis. Wilson is a reporter from Sunderland who now writes for the Guardian and this claims to be the first full biography of Clough from birth to death. It is a monumental and scholarly work, some 550 pages long, and Forest fans have to read through 350 pages before Nottingham is mentioned other than when Clough scored a hat trick at the City Ground as a player [...]
