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@I'm Red Till Dead Those are brilliant, thanks for posting.
The real thanks should go to Kjetil Osvold's Cat who collected it all together. I merely put it into a table.@I'm Red Till Dead Those are brilliant, thanks for posting.
No it hasn't been posted before SFT. I think I did post a report on the team taking the cup along to a pub. I wonder if it was the same one? I will check.Came across this the other day. Not sure if it's been posted already? Or the article relating to it?
On one particularly memorable day in 1898, the victorious Nottingham Forest team paid an early visit to the Royal Oak after winning the FA Cup against Derby County at Crystal Palace. Children for miles around had been invited for free lemonade to celebrate the win and the players had joined them for a drink after a training session in the fields below Beeston Station4 - and had even brought along the Cup. As it was being packed away, the Club Secretary - Henry Hallam - turned to Lily Elliott, then only 15, who was helping behind the bar, and offered her one of the red ribbons from the Cup, with the words, "Keep this - it might be something to remember in your old age." And 60 years later she did when she recalled the incident - and proundly confirmed that she still had the ribbon - for a feature in the Nottingham newspapers when Forest had once again reached the final in 1959 - against Luton who they beat 2-1.
I don't understand why not. I gave everyone about 5 hours and there wasn't even one guess.I'll bet there were no correct answers. I wonder why?
So, are you going to give us the answer?Here’s one for you
Which ex Forest player was also a famous music hall drag act?
Clue - not David Pleat.
Rue Paul Hart or Boy Charlie George?Here’s one for you
Which ex Forest player was also a famous music hall drag act?
Clue - not David Pleat.
I was waiting for some guesses but if that’s the best you can do here’s the answer.
Russell Wallett (aka the Lady in Black)
http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/families/wallett/3356.shtml
I was waiting for some guesses but if that’s the best you can do here’s the answer.
Russell Wallett (aka the Lady in Black)
http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/families/wallett/3356.shtml
There’s a few other ex Forest players that could’ve had a career in the circusI did not know that.
I see that he performed at a Forest smoking concert (not necessarily dressed though) and played juist the once for the club against Cambridge, a 2-0 defeat.
His father was a professor of Eloqution after a carear in the circus .
Bet his initiation song surprised a few committee membersI did not know that.
I see that he performed at a Forest smoking concert (not necessarily dressed though) and played juist the once for the club against Cambridge, a 2-0 defeat.
His father was a professor of Eloqution after a carear in the circus .
Plenty that Fawaz brought in for sure.There’s a few other ex Forest players that could’ve had a career in the circus
Bet his initiation song surprised a few committee members
I’m all for bringing back the “Come on you crimson shirted foresters “ chantIn recognition of the 125th anniversary of the first game played at the 'new' City Ground, here is an article from the following monday with some details of the ground -
A New Era Begins.
(Nottingham Journal, Monday, September 05, 1898)
THE MATCH AT THE NEW CITY GROUND
With a pretty vista of wooded hills, grey old church tower, and a red mill, the picture from the magnificent new stand of the Forest Football Club is as charming as that presented to spectators on any ground in England. The glowing sun on Saturday poured its warm rays on a spectacle such as can be found only where the devotees of our manly sports, and the enthralling pastime of football in particular, are congregated in their tens of thousands. The smooth, well-rolled green sward on which the well trained athletes on Saturday contested in muscular but friendly rivalry had an environment so animated that the man must have been phlegmatic indeed, and of a singular temperament, had he not been somewhat stirred by the panorama of life and movement spread before him. Eager faces bright with the pleasure derived from their first introduction of the season, to the delights of their favourite sport, consecrated and glamoured by its medieval origin, old and yet fresh. Youth and age, sturdy young men and staid authoritative professional men and merchants, pretty girls in lightest of summer raiment (for the afternoon was warmer even than the typical September day) – all were bright and smiling. The scene presented by the great members’ stand was one to remember, for never in the history of the game in Nottingham has there been a gathering so charming in colour or variety, or one so numerous and representative.
Well packed too, were the stands on the river side and along the east wing of the ground, where there is standing and seating accommodation for 13,000 spectators. But so ample is the space at the disposal of the public that quite as many more people as were present could have found ample and comfortable accommodation and a good view of the game. How the old colours made the blood tingle in the veins as the crimson-shirted Foresters came leaping over the barrier, greeted by a thunderous shout of welcome and a fire of hand-clapping like the discharge of musketry. The familiar figures looked pictures of robust health – just a little on the heavy side one thought in two or three cases; but men used to the care of athletes know that something has to be left on which to work. Man cannot commence on a seven months’ campaign in greyhound condition.
Quickly after the “reds” came the Rovers, looking neat and cool in their familiar blue and white shirts, and their welcome was of the heartiest. Soon Mr. Scragg had the men “on the mark,” and with the old, familiar rumble of sound the ball was started on its career in the first League encounter in Nottingham of the 1898-9 season.
Note: Sadly, Blackburn won the game by a goal to nil.
Why don't you try it at the Burnley game and see if you can get everyone else to join in?I’m all for bringing back the “Come on you crimson shirted foresters “ chant