Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
We were the oldest of the founder league members and that should be more than enough to claim the title "World's oldest league club".

The fact that we dropped into tier 5 for four seasons (still playing in the league pyramid) should have no bearing on that title whatsoever when all but one of the other 11 founder members have also exited the Football League at some point (Preston being the exception). On what basis would the Premier League still be valid in terms of continuity but the National League not? Nobody has ever explained that one to me.
It does make me laugh that Forest message board has a thread along the lines of "Home of the proper oldest league football club" due to them claiming you have to be consistent league member for it to count.

They weren't original members of the football league so they can't claim that they are the oldest league club on the same basis we cant claim it now.