In a Nottingham far, far away, long before the discovery of the Beeston pea mines, before Forest were last in Europe, before even, the birth of Su Pollard, the great Nottingham god, Else, decided that the city needed two protectors...
Assisted by his two demi-gods, Xylophone Man and Cockle Man, he laboured for 40 days and 40 nights fashioning from that primordial Notts mud, two creatures of such magnificence that the three men could only stand back and gaze in wonder at their work.