Sharon Jones
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 week, 6 days ago
A windswept beach and the Gormley statues
The footprints of Ancelotti across the Crosby sands
And now Marine Fc in that self same corner of the world
A club named after the local pub
Enjoy the magic of the […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 weeks, 4 days ago
As a youngster falling in love with football
And all things Liverpool Fc
I watched Colin Bell in his pomp for City
A blur of blonde brilliance
Bright shining in light blue
His fireworks lit up Maine Road […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 1 week ago
You stand quietly just away from the shadows
The red of your scarf catches the light
And draws it down
And those football eyes shine
Unscramble the mysticism of tactics
Each lunge measured
Each trailing leg […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 1 week ago
Monsieur Houllier
That Treble had us dancing
Dortmund, Cardiff, home. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 1 week ago
Bootroom Bard for football seasons
Now that’s the job for me
In praise of Bob and Liverpool
Of all things Bill ShanklyA job well Donne the chants declare
For Dalglish rules supreme
A Prince among the t […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 2 weeks ago
We all got ‘megged by Covid
No more football games from March
All that zoom and online rooms
The future seemed so sparse
So, stacked on teams the world it seemed
All quiet and slowed right down
Our he […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Pantomime villains
Saints and sinners
Football has them allBe blessed with God-given gifts
Upon that football pitch
You’re forgiven all the moreBut should your boots have trace of clay
The l […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Diego the man
Returns to the
Silent earthMaradona the footballer
Plays on
Thunderous immortality. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Maradona takes his rest
Heaven’s 11
With George Best.* * *
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 4 weeks ago
I loved you
Even tho others
Said you were
A ‘cheat’
I loved you
For your genius
Wild and unpredictable
Making up then breaking
All the rules
And you were
Who I was, always,
Playing football
On that […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The genius of Maradona
In those god-given toes
that mane of untamed curls
and the knowing hand
that could not steal the beauty
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 1 week ago
Once upon a silent terrace
The trainers in the box forlorn
But football just like love returns
We go again, we dream again for sureOnce upon a silent terrace
The scent of Bovril disappears
But football […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Pride of Padiham in the groove
A poem pie and pint
Aye goals sublime and tricky moves
And Daz O on the mic!The boys in blue they do their best
To make themselves a name
They give their all and make us […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
In the year of Our Lord 1914
The call came for lads to join up with a team
So they packed up their boots with their hopes and dreams
And they offered their hearts for the price of a shilling
For the crown […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Tonight
The turnstile will close
The whistle will be silenced
The watch will stop
The cards packed away
The boots that clashed sheathed
And the tackles shackled from the heat
of battle
We will step off […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 3 weeks ago
One name resonates
Diego Maradona
Football poetry. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Nobby Stiles
In white and red
Jigged with Jules Rimet
Not a tooth in his head! -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Through the summers long gone and the winters to be
The songs that were sung by my old friends and me
So, what of the glorious days of the past
The nights that we lost and those that we danced
Dressed up with […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 3 weeks ago
From Huddersfield
Driving down in an Austin A40
No palms were thrown at his feet
No sweet Hosannas filled the skies
No heralds announced the saviour’s arrival
And beneath Liverpool’s sullen grey skies
He wal […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The chapter and verse who beguiled and dazzled
With the smooth seduction of a million, million hearts
Beating to the rhythm of the beautiful soul
Whilst defences fell like discarded notes
From a trembling […] - Load More
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13th November 2020 at 9:52 pm
I am interested in the tale about The
Boot Room and Shankley
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12th November 2020 at 11:21 am
Hi Sharon
Please see my private message re arecent use of one of your poems from Manchester cheers C
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9th October 2020 at 8:17 pm
Hi Daniel,
Good to see you are still writing about the ‘Tic. Hope all is good with you.
Best, Sharon
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4th October 2020 at 9:52 am
So true mate.
You’re certainly not alone in your thinking. I get incensed sometimes.
Aside from the endless and stillwith its -here once labelled Fergie Time moments ,we now have VAR with its far off decisions by supposed ‘neutrals’ .
So …the supposed influenced ‘integrity’ of refs and neutrals favouritism ?
You could tuck it away into some corner and call it yet another football conspiracy theory, (like analyzing and searching to find which teams refs follow and VAR assistant refs (if we knew ) but it still occurs too often for me.
It raises the question is there such a thing a a real neutral. Everyone who watches football definitely supports or has a soft spot for some club however tenuous..
BTW When I was 10 and the Munich Air Crash happened. i (and many at my school in Fulham) was a Chesea fan but took United on as my second lcub for a season through that awfdul time. Now FGR are my life and my team in the next village and i drum (when we get back) on the terrace at 72 with the young kids and scoff vegan pies and get bwind Dale’s green vision for the planet …
Go well Attila and stry safe with your good lady….
Best Crispin
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18th September 2020 at 5:39 pm
nice one sorting a pic to go with..off to a trial run with several hundfred masked fans v Bradgford at FGR tomorrow
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16th September 2020 at 5:51 pm
Sorted! Cheers. SJ
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6th September 2020 at 6:23 pm
Hi again
This message from Ken via the site.
Ken Storey
mail: kensart@talktalk.net
Message: Message for Sharon Jones. I hadn’t been able to contact you as your email seems to have lapsed and would like to know if you still want your Liverpool Christ painting. Let me know if you want it and when you can pick it up from me at 27 Mentmore Road L18 4PU. Hope you are well. Best wishes Ken Storey
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6th September 2020 at 6:22 pm
Hi Sharon-PLEASE CONFIRM RECEIVED
This request from Gavin via the site. Can you get back to him please. If you don’t want to do it let me know, I might have a go.
Name: Gavin Blackwell
Email: gavinleelee@hotmail.co.uk
Message: Hi,
I am looking to make contact with Sharon Jones to see if can or someone could write a poem from my article The Brutality of life of the football Physio?
Best Regards
Gavin Blackwell
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29th July 2020 at 9:26 pm
Hi Crispin,
I’ve only just seen your comment about a photo of the gates. I will dig one out.
I’ve still not been to The New Lawn but I do hope to get there one day.
Martyn
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29th July 2020 at 6:41 am
Woohoo….sentiment shared Denys.
I thought the huge No 3 on Chelsea’s new shirts strange enough.
Keep on mate.. C
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