In 1865 at The Clinton Arms on Shakespeare Street in Nottingham, 15 shinty players gathered to form Nottingham Forest Football Club. In the 150+ years since that meeting the pub has been renamed many times (and is currently know as The Playwright) but here it lives again as a podcast collaboration by the people who brought you Bandy & Shinty, Forza Garibaldi and Our Glorious Banners.
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The Clinton Arms – It’s Good To Talk
With 20 minutes of the EFL Championship season to go, Nottingham Forest were in the playoff spots. They had a 3 point and 5 goal cushion over Swansea City in 7th place. Then 6 goals went in across 2 games and everything fell apart. Matt from Forza Garibaldi and Sean and Steve from Bandy &…
The Clinton Arms – Nous sommes contents
In this episode we bring together three of the four founders of Bandy & Shinty as Sean Hockett, Phil Juggins and Steve Wright discuss the games so far, since the Championship returned to action, and the developing identity of Nottingham Forest under Sabri Lamouchi. We also talk to Sean about his artwork that has been…
Je suis content
Steve Wright looks at the developing identity under Sabri Lamouchi and wonders whether this is the beginning of something special for Nottingham Forest. I have talked on the podcast about the sense of confidence I have felt as football has restarted, but I think that in reality it is actually something more than that. What…
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