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Greg Freeman

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    “Perhaps we are all wrong,
    and Southgate
    is a substitution genius.”

    The Facebook banter
    after the England game
    moves into the realm
    of long-ago memory
    as we talk of previous
    footballing magic […]

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    Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago

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    Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 year ago

    Ashington FC have launched a £50,000 Crowdfunder appeal to meet the increased costs of winning promotion last season, to pay for urgent stadium improvements, travel costs and equipment

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    Thunderous shooting that transcended his era.
    Maybe you have to be a certain age.
    When they announced it during the game
    the crowd of six hundred
    barely reacted. No gasps or murmurs.
    My son shrugged, […]

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    Uh-oh. The world’s gone pear-shaped.
    I have a feeling that I’m close to home,
    or at least the train. Too old for this
    malarkey. Was doing so well. Now
    I’m all over the place, lost count,
    head swimming. This […]

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    One hundred thousand,
    at least, for a friendly.
    The Russians were
    still our friends, weren’t they?
    November 1945.
    So many servicemen
    back from the war

    hungry to watch football again.
    A photo s […]

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    A lone bugler occasionally
    blasts out the right note.
    Maybe also the source
    of the odd native American
    war cry. The few hundred at Ashington
    are passionate in their support.

    Proud mining town, home
    of […]

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    Jack, always the town planner,
    is interested in the wind turbine
    that can be seen from the ground
    as well as the old terrace houses,
    and fatalistic about the enormous
    estate pub boarded up
    for more than a […]

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    Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 3 months ago

    To put it politely!

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    Greyhound track that separated
    us from our idols. Banging
    the corrugated back of the Shed.
    Boys’ turnstile. Rosettes, rattles,
    hot dog sellers, trains that rumbled
    behind the North Stand.

    One of the b […]

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    Ancient Chinese proverb:
    one football fan’s
    never-to-be-forgotten
    victory is another’s
    hardest-to-swallow defeat.

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    Always a lovely song
    that plucked at the heartstrings.
    But over the years it took on
    a melancholy, mournful note.
    So many disappointments,
    hands of God, penalty shoot-outs,
    racist abuse on social […]

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    Remember Brian Glover in Kes? The teacher
    imagining he’s Bobby Charlton, United v Spurs?
    This bloke was something similar.

    Me and my brother were drinking
    at the Spanish campsite pool bar. He told u […]

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    Parade of the pony-tails.
    No wrestling in the box;
    getting up and getting on with it.
    Football as it should be played.

    Showing the men how to entertain,
    putting them to shame.
    The spirit of sport. […]

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    Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago

    I remember Tony Dorigo!  Australian full back. Scored the only goal for Chelsea in the Full Members Cup Final v Middlesbrough in 1990 (had to check Google). By pure chance I had a ticket for the press box. […]

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    Never really knew my mother’s father.
    All I remember: tuft of nostril hair,
    spied from sitting on his knee; hoard
    of half-hidden threepenny pieces
    slipped into a sandpit outside the lido.

    In pictures he l […]

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    I’ve just received a wonderful late wedding anniversary present from my dear wife – ‘Stanley Bagshaw and the short-sighted football trainer’, written and illustrated by Bob Wilson (no, not THAT Bob Wilson. I don’t think so, anyway). All the Stanley Bagshaw books are in verse. I used to love reading another one of them to my kids a lifetime ago.…[Read more]

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    ‘Some people think that football
    is a matter of life and death …’

    I was a Chelsea supporter
    for 40 years before
    the Roman empire.

    Fan is short for fanatic.
    Empires fall. Football’s
    nowhere near
    as […]

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    Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 2 years, 8 months ago

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    The early April afternoon was glorious.

    The daffs were out, I felt Wordsworthian.

    You’d come down from York to look

    at houses. We caroused that evening

    with old friends in the Railway Tavern – […]

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