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Graham Salter

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thanks!

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    Mr Wordsworth walks to Bolton
    He wandered lonely as a cloud
    At evening in the encroaching dark
    When all at once he saw a crowd
    A floodlit game at Burnden Park!
    “Dine at the Packhorse” along the roof
    The dri […]

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    Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months ago

    SPION KOP
    “In 1903 we stood on Spion Kop
    Clattering our hob-nail boots against the wall”
    My grand-dad recollected this for me
    When he was eighty, in Nineteen Sixty Three
    Remembering a centre-half called Joe […]

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    Do you remember old tales about football in the Fifties
    How your skill might spare you from going down the mines?
    How Jackie and Bobby would be out near the colliery
    Surrounded by Milburns and the rest of […]

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    Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years ago

    A bird flew north over Italy
    Over Naples’ volcanic home
    Which worshipped Maradona in his prime
    Flew over Lazio and the Olimpico
    Climbed up its high ellipse
    Heading for the evening sun
    On her distant seven h […]

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    Arriving at a certain age
    I chanced upon a Facebook Page
    A football follower’s delight
    Outclassing every other site:
    No views of Best or Ken Dalgleish
    Or Cruyff, for this was far more niche
    It specialised i […]

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 2 months ago

    Please insert after line 15 “Where life was hard and occasionally brutal”

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    Too close to call still
    Some people think it’s over
    You know otherwise

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    This is the ballad of Derek Acorah,
    A footballing lad, and what is more, a
    Psychic who detected poltergeists
    (Yes, genuine spirits, not scurrying mice)
    He used to appear on Living TV
    Where his psychic shows […]

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    If you see something that doesn’t look right,
    City in peachy orange, an improbable sight,
    West Bromwich Albion in shorts of canary,
    Teams wearing candy-stripes (colours may vary)
    Turquoise or Biscuit or A […]

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago

    Great poem Clik – witty and memorable, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago

    Great poem Sharon, worthy of a quite remarkable occasion.

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago

    I really like this poem. So many great phrases: “striped and manicured”, “a crowd of heads go drooping”, “and maintain home advantage”, “when Mum blew for dinner”. Much appreciated! Thank you.

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    Graham Salter published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years ago

    As a child I drew crowds; row upon row,
    fifteen thousand little circles for the fans,
    some high in the stands, some arrayed on the Shelf
    cradled by that tight encircling wall
    (I’m capturing White Hart L […]

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    Graham Salter posted an update 5 years ago

    BACK IN TIME DOWN WHITE HART LANE
    As a child I drew crowds; row upon row,
    fifteen thousand little circles for the fans,
    some high in the stands, some arrayed on the Shelf
    cradled by that tight encircling wall
    (I’m capturing White Hart Lane
    at the start of the Hunter Davies years)
    the groundlings penned behind a white perimeter fence,
    watching B…[Read more]

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    Here on a field of mother Russia
    The eleven men of England sing
    As the prying camera moves from man to man
    Slowly
    Like a military inspection.
    The crowd heaves, the band plays, and the camera probes
    Each […]

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 1 month ago

    “beyond the gated community of stones”. Beautiful.

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 1 month ago

    Brilliant imagery. A great poem.

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    Graham Salter commented on a poem on Football Poets 6 years, 1 month ago

    A fine poem, much appreciated.

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    CHILDHOOD MEMORY
    The Euston to Blackpool line is swathed in fog,
    Early 1958, and the evening train is held at the signal.
    The halo of an approaching bicycle lamp looms through the mist.
    “A plane crash” say […]

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