Nottingham has produced two legends known around the world: Robin Hood and Brian Clough, the latter associated with Nottingham Forest Football Club.
Nottingham Forest is a special club. It set the standard for others to follow and just about everyone did just that, considering it is the second oldest club in the entire world.
Forest has won their share of hardware over a century and a half, winning the First Division (1977-78), Second Division (1906-07, 1921-22, and 1997-98) as well as the FA Cup (1897-98, 1958-59), European Cup (1978-79, 1979-80) and European Super Cup (1979).
You can imagine that a club that has 150 years of history would have some great stories and that certainly is the case here.
Forever Forest: The Official 150th Anniversary History of the Original Reds by Don Wright is a great compilation of all those stories and history, put together all in once place. And you couldn’t just find anybody to write this book, no one other than the club’s own historian would be appropriate.
The book is very much a long and epic story full of incredible, but real characters. Walter Roe Lymbery, Sam Weller Widdowson, Tinsley Lindley, Frank and Fred Forman, Bob Firth, Randolph Septimus Galloway, Bob Marsters, Billy Walker, and Peter Taylor are just a few of the club’s legends, people that helped make Nottingham Forest a player on the football map, probably just as much as Clough did.
One thing is for certain, even as the game changes and evolves, we learn from this book that one things remains constant and that is Nottingham Forest Football Club.
This text is a good one, for those that love this club and for anyone that enjoys the story of English football as the story of the English game is also Forest’s story.
