Greg Freeman
@gregoryfreeman
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 10 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 3 years, 1 month 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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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
Impatient men and boys waited
outside newsagents at six o’clock,
for vans to deliver their bundles.
News or Standard? Rival
papers competed to produce
Saturday night sports papers,
all the football s […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 2 months ago
The beckoning floodlights
still work their magic,
early October’s comforting chill,
scarf snug round the neck.
Blood pulses through arteries,
moving as it should. Heart lifts
with every step towards the s […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 3 months ago
It seems like a dream now:
the 1-4 scoreline;
Lampard’s goal that never was;
watching the game with Carol Ann Duffy.She turned up amid the half-time gloom
in the pub, asked if it was ok
to sit near the T […] -
Greg Freeman posted an update 3 years, 3 months ago
My debut full collection Marples Must Go!, which includes some football poems posted here, is now available from publishers Dempsey & Windle https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/gregfreeman.html
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Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 3 years, 3 months ago
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 6 months ago
‘The goalkeeper’s fear of the penalty’ –
but shouldn’t a striker fear it
so much more? The keeper isn’t
expected to save; the forward
is obliged to score. A penalty
can help break the duck,
if you’re […] -
Greg Freeman posted an update 3 years, 6 months ago
Highly recommended! Brian Bilston’s ’50 Ways to Score a Goal and other football poems’ (Macmillan). An ideal accompaniment to the Euros that’s not just for kids. Here’s my review on Write Out Loud https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=115831
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Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 3 years, 6 months ago
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Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 3 years, 6 months ago
Thanks for this, Crispin, a souvenir of a memorable night. Reading it brought tears to my eyes. Commiserations to City fans, I thought your name was on the trophy this time.
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 6 months ago
As the boos rang out at the Riverside
I remembered my team’s
first black player
coming on as sub in the 80s,
the storm of hate from the Shed.The shock and anguish I felt,
wondering if I could c […] -
Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 9 months ago
A winter’s day, a darkening sky. Warned
by the ref midway through the first half
for over-enthusiastic touchline coaching:
I don’t know what you’re on, but I want some of it.
Those games meant […]
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
Look at it not so much as a game
of two halves – although it was that,
too – but the result of fixture congestion.
Pure and simple. Two crucial matches,
far too close together. A great win up north,
d […] -
Greg Freeman commented on a poem on Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
‘Get stuck in’ … the same managerial advice we were offered as 3rd Tolworth Cubs, back in the day. And at half-time, the same refrain, slightly amended: ‘The trouble is, you’re not getting stuck in enough …’
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Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 3 years, 10 months ago
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Greg Freeman‘s profile was updated 3 years, 10 months ago
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Greg Freeman published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 years, 10 months ago
It may be just a pre-season friendly,
he’s the wrong side of thirty; I still
get the same joy watching him play.
Diehard tackles, rampaging forward,
exhorting teammates, lusting for goals.I’m double his […]
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Greg Freeman became a registered member 3 years, 10 months ago
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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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