Greg Freeman
@gregoryfreeman
Active 4 months 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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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. Someone should have a word with them. All those young girls cheering goals, singing Football’s Coming Home. I’m not […]
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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 looks a decent man. Worked until death for just one firm, service interrupted by overseas trip lasting several years. Given leave […]
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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 important as life and death.
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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 – they used to serve a lovely drop there, now apartments handy for the station – talking football as usual, about our […]
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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, unbreakable bond, in difficult, teenage times. My son was all set for the match but gave up the ticket after […]
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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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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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