Greg Freeman
@gregoryfreeman
Active 3 months, 1 week ago-
Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 5 months, 2 weeks 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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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 months ago
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, […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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 […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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 warhungry to watch football again.
A photo s […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 7 months, 4 weeks ago
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
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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
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Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 year, 8 months ago
To put it politely!
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 8 months ago
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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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 8 months ago
Ancient Chinese proverb:
one football fan’s
never-to-be-forgotten
victory is another’s
hardest-to-swallow defeat. -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 8 months ago
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 […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 8 months ago
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 […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 9 months ago
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. […] -
Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 1 year, 9 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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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 year, 10 months ago
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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Greg Freeman posted an update 2 years ago
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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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
‘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 […] -
Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 2 years, 1 month ago
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 1 month ago
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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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 2 months ago
I won’t mention the team. The reason?
I’d like most readers to stick
with this beyond the first lines.
It isn’t which club, or even football,
but about a father and daughter
forming an unexpected, unbre […] -
Greg Freeman posted an update 2 years, 5 months ago
Several of my football poems are included in my new full collection, Marples Must Go! https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/gregfreeman.html
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Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!
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19th March 2024 at 8:00 am
Hi Crispin. Chris Sutton on the radio has gone for a Chelsea v Coventry final. As we know anything can happen in the Cup, and I reckon we can go to the final.
We’re still in with a chance of the play offs too, so lots to go for.
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19th March 2024 at 7:41 am
Hey Kev
Let the masses drool over their odds on City v Unted Final, but who knows how pressure can hit.
Cov and Chels will be rightly labelled as having no chance..but hey …stranger things have happened..
so Chelsea v Coventry…that’s the Final for us!
Best
C
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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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19th November 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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7th November 2023 at 6:34 pm
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would be more difficult battle to stay if there were 18 teams.Great poem and somehow true.
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6th November 2023 at 4:43 pm
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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