Greg Freeman
@gregoryfreeman
Active 3 months, 3 weeks 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 […] View
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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 decade. I’m more intrigued by the industrial railway line, its Semaphore signals, construction machines on the station […]
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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 best matchday programmes in the world. The ‘lack of atmosphere’ the press always cited whenever we lost. The Headhunters made headlines at away […]
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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 media. But that was then. That was the men. Now, at the final whistle, they’re playing our song, at Wembley! The gods have […]
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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 us he’d been on the books of Villa and Tranmere. We mentioned our boys on the five a side pitch nearby. Puts […]
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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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joe morris
4th May 2024
Crispin Thomas
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Richard Williams
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25th April 2024
Denys E. W. Jones
25th April 2024
kevin halls
23rd April 2024
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Latest Comments
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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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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23rd April 2024 at 4:03 pm
Hi Denys
With you all the way on the abolition of FA Cup replays. What are they doing to the game?
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23rd April 2024 at 3:59 pm
Hi Crispin,
Yes sorry mate. Villa are still in Europe. Mistake rectified.
Cheers
Joe
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20th April 2024 at 12:04 pm
Hi Joe
Shouldn’t your title read your poem Farewell Europe England to everyone exccept Aston Villa ?
I know you mention them in your poem , but I do feel sorry for Villa re the national press .
Largely ignored. the hype was was all about Man City & Arsenal with a bit of a nod to the Hammers..but hardly a mention of Villa..
So well done to them
C
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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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