We have had many stunning photographs On football what I remember Like Diego Maradona’s hand of god And Dave Mckay throttling Billy Bremner. Another one high on my list Which still brings out the smiles The day we won the Jules Rimet And the toothless Nobby Stiles. Add the one back in the Seventies Which […]

Remember when we used to change In the back of a Triumph Herald A lovely little motor car Owned by our goalie Gerald. In the boot he kept the corner flags The team kit and his boots Our Sunday morning ritual Football, and It’s grass roots. We could never use the dressing rooms They were […]

An old school pal Tucker Brown Signed schoolboy forms for Mansfield Town And our headmaster Mr Snell Shook Tucker’s hand and wished him well Proud P.E. teacher Harold Price Offered Tucker sound advice Stick in lad, do as your told Those Mansfield streets are paved with gold And so his mother packed his bags And […]

He came strutting in my direction Outside ‘The Stadium of Light’ Wearing his Sunderland shorts And his socks of red and white The Three lions of England Proudly showing on his chest Tattooed on each upper arm He wore the Sunderland crest But when he walked on by me I turned my head and then […]

We talk of our favourite music From classical to swing We talk of Bobby Mitchell Weaving his magic down the wing’ We talk of building warships In the shipyards on the Tyne We talk of Ivor Allchurch With his ball control sublime. We talk of our racing pigeons And the greyhounds we used to race […]