Bozidar Gacina
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
All Evertonians needed
was more love for Everton
and more Premiership footballBut that was pending on
the Chelsea v Bolton game on
Sunday 10 May 1998What if we were really down?
What if nothing […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
If you are an Evertonian
there is no any other first name
that comes to your mind than
the name of Kevin RatcliffeNo, it is not that you saw
Welsh Highlands on Netflix
and checked all the people
of […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
What does it mean
the luck who had been alredy
played ?
What is the law of the luck alredy played?
Relationship between space and time
A form of Time DilationThe club eliminated in the previous
F.A CUP […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
Rideout, Radzinsky, Radmilo
I say this as Rideout and Radzinsky were prominent Everton players, Radmilo was striker in Blue shirt of
Zeljeznicar from Sarajevo in the 1980’s
From small town in Bosnia
he ended […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 11 months ago
Carlyle defined genius as an infinite
capacity for taking pains so the human
pain that has to be borne is often beyond
imaginingCan I define footballer’s genius as an
infinite capacity for taking pains […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 11 months ago
Diego was Diego
The Mexico 1986
was Diego’s El DoradoMy memory recorded
one refrain as though
Lineker it is goalAnd one special goal
scored by Manuel Negreteincredible
Lineker ended in […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years ago
Rhône
La Seine
Mersey
3 Rivers
Merci
Houllier
From
River MerseyFrom my French
viewBig gentleman
passed awayLa France est en deuil
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years ago
Yo digo in Spanish
can mean
I say, I said, I’am saying
That is when
DIEGO HAS THE BALL what he does
He is saying
Yo digo -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 1 month ago
I was having an intelligent dream
The football match of the past
when Everton once met LiverpoolThe impression after the dream has been
strongIn the Year of LORD 1993
Everton met Liverpool
In […] -
Gacina Bozidar commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 1 month ago
I am interested in the tale about The
Boot Room and Shankley -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 1 month ago
The MILKY WAY
and cosmos
MILLWALL F.C
and Football Club CosmosThe biggest Univers beyond
us all
Football fans we’re allThe football match is an open big event
or the refuge from uneasy worldIt […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 1 month ago
Jules Rimet Jules Verne
Alfred Ramsey Alfred Nobel
NOBBY STILES -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 1 month ago
You can easly say
Lennon and Ball
You can easly say
1960’sBut now,
The pop star and
the football star
are not so prominentOr they are living
in the new eraThe Covid era
There were Alan […]
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Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 2 months ago
Who are at the top of the table
Everton
You may say that I am a dreamer
Then,
Nothing to do with Everton
somehow
The both
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
ARE gifted writers
WHOSE names have one “TO”
there is […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 3 months ago
Who?
The Who?
RINAT DASAYEV
What?
Was facing VAN BASTEN’s volley
The result ?
1988 was the year
The Soviet national team existed
Where ?
In Germany where
THE EURO 1988 was held
What he has done […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 4 months ago
There is magical Irish mythology
Tuatha Dé Dananns’ dreams were there
In our own retrospective though
the Great Charlton
led the boys to the Italy 1990 gloryTuatha Dé Dananns’ dreams
That was Italy 1 […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 5 months ago
Everton scored for the trinity of the result
They scored only to be really bemused
Some credulity was shaken without a clear reason
The goal
The fans lived the two feelings
The goal and the ruled out […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 6 months ago
Derby
Merseyside
Gwladys Street
Bullens Road
Park End
The Blues
The Reds
No goals
The recorded chants
5 live without Great Alan Green
Why BBC didn’t renew his
contract
Sad sad sad commentary […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 7 months ago
In 1990 a notice that some parcel had arrived
was in my letter box
in the LENIN STREET in SarajevoThe joy was alike the high shining star
who has been awarded its place in the
Cosmos by the Cosmos […] -
Gacina Bozidar published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 9 months ago
Football was played when I lived through horror
In those fearful uncertain days I could listen
BBC WORLD SERVICE
in my Sarajevo flatIn those early days of the war
I was stressed but I listened to […] - Load More
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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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