Bozidar Gacina
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 7 months ago
Osim passed away
a year ago
When I was a boy
Osim faced
Bobby Robson’s England team
Within 20 minutes
England were 4-0 up
in that game in 1987
Beardo Beardsley scored
the first
But his Yugoslavia team in […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 8 months ago
The relegation battle
A yearbook of pain
Thoughts about the past
Warm spring and the end of the season
The oversea Premier League television audience
The 80s
The 90s
Golden Kendall’s boys
Bob […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 9 months ago
Is there something
in common between Lineker
Tom Sawyer and Mark TwainThey are all the characters
of the important storyAmong the desperete refugees
there are Mark Twain readersWhat is the Tweet […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 10 months ago
My old poem spoke about
Luka Modric and
Saint Luke’s Church
in Liverpool
Modric display in Liverpool
brought the ovations of
Liverpool fans
Oh The Life
and Poetry
Oh The Poetry and Life
You all only […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 10 months ago
Mista, Vicente, Baraja
was the trio
who played with
brio
Best ever Valencia team
you know what I meanHow to contemplate
Survival and RevivalValencia’s Revival
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 10 months ago
Seriousley ?
The Tranmere are waiting
But this is madness
Mersey Derby 2
PLEASE PLEASE
FOR THE GOD’s SAKE
avoid that avoid thatEverton Football Club
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 11 months ago
Always tired
of the question
who is the best ever playerI would say
It doesn’t matter !Say that Mozart is above
Bach or choose
Between Paul Mc Cartney
and ElvisIt doesn’t matter
There is no […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
Shakespeare in living memory
Miroslav Krleza in living memory
Mladen Delic in living memory
Croatia always
Samba during the World Cup
Josip Broz Tito somewhere in memoryShakespeare inspires us
Miroslav […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
I am not watching football
I am listening the live Radio commentaries
That is Radio Zagreb 2
outside of home
At the street
Croatia equalised at the
end of the Extra time
to shock Brazil and theirs […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
After the penalties
between Croatia
and Japan I was
repeating the names
Livakovic Liverpool
Now Brazil lost
I don t know
after Brazil Croatia
penalties
what to sing
Is Livakovic now
in this […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
Always there is most dramatic
development of the match
involving Croatia
The Red Devils go home
You can wonder
who were held
to a nil-nil draw
Belgium or Croatia
VAR decision was in the
favour of The […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
God Our Father
Thank you for
what I call
The Logic of Costa RicaWhat is that ?
To concede seven goals
means you can still beat
the heroes of the Germany-Japan game
You showed us one Thing
The Giant […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years ago
Richarlison’s
Goal of the Tournement has shaken the world
All I have to do is think of him
Because
Everton is missing him
Everton fans think
Richarlison may win World Cup
medal
But the formidable strike […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
Easy and comfortable win for Spain
Seven goals scored easly
When the Teams win by a goal
to nil we say deserved
And Seven ?
Do we say ‘more than deserved’
Nothing is deserved or not deservedExcept in […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
If something is
better than music
that is football match radio commentary
One of those men who
spoke to the world
to keep us listening
the dramas and enjoy them without watching
was Chema Abad
If […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
The ball for football game is missing for
The Angels, The Noah
The first woman Eve
and all our friends from The ScripturesNowhere they played the footbal
The most beatiful gameBut the football […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 3 months ago
Is there football related tourism in London
Many clubs in the capital of England attract
the visitors
Yes but I saw Fulham at Loftus Road
because they played there in 2004
I missed Craven Cottage
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Gacina Bozidar commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
Thank you. It is great.
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 5 months ago
If you keep in mind
everything you ever knew
about football
the probability is this:
any player”s name can come
to your mind out of the blueHey, Tony Dorigo came !
I said out of the blue
Tony […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 7 months ago
The history repeats
at Goodison
Glorious!
Wimbledon game in 1994
in which Everton came back from 2-0 down to
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27th November 2024 at 5:55 am
‘You’re Supposed To Be At Home’ is an excellent and moving poem Denys.
You start off thinking it’s just about another oft-sung chant, one we personally heard a lot last season throughout our second relegation in a row here at Forest Green(FGR) ! I always love poems where you think they are saying one thing and then they suddenly pull you deeper to somewhere or something else else.
I’m currently helping in a local school for FGR in a voluntary capacity using football to help young students with reading. At an upcoming session we will tackle racism, just like we did in workshops at football schools and grounds when we first started this site 24 years ago. I’m gonna try and weave your poem into a session.
We’ve added it to the Anti- Racism/Kick It Out section under Crispin’s Corner.
Best C
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26th November 2024 at 1:59 pm
Great poem and great to see you back Wyn.
Don’t leave it so long next time my friend!
More please.
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13th September 2024 at 6:14 pm
Welcome to Football Poets Beth
Great evocative poem Beth….
More please !
Haiku always welcome.
Hope we (FGR) get to play you again soon
Best
Crispin
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26th July 2024 at 6:25 pm
Great poem Mike Bartram. Eddie was a legend, affectionately known in Liverpool as, “the first hooligan.” Even the hoolies were well dressed in those days. The amazing thing was he was only 26 when that picture was taken. He’d played for Everton youth team and was well known to the players. He never got arrested. They threw him out and he climbed back in, just in time for Derek Temples winner.
I used the picture of him being tackled to the ground on the front cover of my book, “Once Upon a rhyme in Football.” It’s worth looking on youtube and finding the re-enactment of the Wembley scene. Frank Skinner and Baddiel went around to Eddies home in the 1990’s and acted it out on the green outside. It’s hilarious, especially all the effort they put in to get Eddie sober enough to shoot the scene.
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10th July 2024 at 6:07 pm
Hi Crispin,
I don’t know if you’ve see the picture in social media today…
a picture of a teenage Lionel Messi cradling a baby in Africa as part of a photoshoot…. the family had won a lottery to have their baby pictured with him….
the photographer has just revealed that the baby is actually in fact Lamine Yamal!!!!
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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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