Sharon Jones
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 3 months, 4 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months, 1 week ago
One name resonates
Diego Maradona
Football poetry. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 1 week 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 […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 1 week ago
Are you hangin’ up your trophies on the wall?
Are you watchin’ Salah mesmerise the ball?
The boot room days are over
And things not quite the same
But 3 European Cups still bear your name
What secrets did you […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 1 week ago
Football is as much geography as physiology
the pitch the very landscape of conjecture
its borders collect around the ground
tendered, watered, and cultivated
cajoled into imagined emerald grass
for molten […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Beautiful Game is a wonderful life
Gives us moments of joy wrapped in parcels of strife
The goals and the saves and the less and the more
The crosses and losses the wins and the draws
The badly behaved […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 2 weeks ago
200 souls in the pouring rain
Week in week out all here the same
Not for glory or the glimmer of fame
Grassroots for me not gravy trainPrint match programme the odd refrain
22 footballers taking the […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Shankly making the people happy
Mooro pristine in his tackles and kit
Banks of England with his safe pair of hands
Chippy Brady darting over the pitch
Adams as stoical as the house made of bricks
Football to […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 months, 3 weeks ago
In the boots of a striker
The bliss of a kiss
The quiet of a heron
Pursuing a fishUpstream and sparkling
Where the wild salmon dart
But most of allThrough the aching capillaries
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months ago
You didn’t play football
On the grass of Strawberry Fields
You didn’t wear a red or blue scarf
You didn’t strain yer neck trying to watch
The game from the Kop at Anfield or
The street end at them there Blues […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months ago
The toes of a dancer
The swish of a kiss
The splash of red ketchup
On lush fish and chipsUpstream and sparkling
Where the wild salmon dart
But most of allLiverpool Football Club
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months ago
Mi Scuse but I’m potty
For the charm of Ancelotti
Tho his chosen club of blue
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months, 1 week ago
No prima donna’s neon boots
No glitzy goalie aches to shoot
A sloping pitch a non-league dog
A Poem A Pie and A Pint of grogDogged defenders who stay the course
Strikers with the pace of Inspector M […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The glory of football
In the matches we love
The breath-taking goals
The tip of the gloveBut a club is a body
Of myriad parts
The backroom the boot room
Not just its starsThe steel of the […]
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Sharon Jones commented on a poem on Football Poets 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sorted! Cheers. SJ
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5th March 2021
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Sharon Jones
2nd March 2021
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1st March 2021
Patrick B. Osada
1st March 2021
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23rd February 2021
Denys E. W. Jones
21st February 2021
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21st February 2021
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Latest Comments
6th March 2021 at 1:12 am
Not too many Nans like her!
Brian Moore, The Big Match…. never missed. But miss it still. If you get my drift!
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6th March 2021 at 1:08 am
Thanks for the memories Gacina!
We all (Stamford Bridge acolytes) adore Luca too!
My best friend’s son is named after him!
Clik.
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6th March 2021 at 1:02 am
Thanks for bringing back memories Kev!
On point of principle….
I’m not sure I ever paid over the odds for a ticket at the Bridge.
Nearest I came, was myself and two buddies for the Milk Cup Semi Final v Sunderland, 1985. (pre neutral venues)
Instead we retired to the Rising Sun to watch it live on tv, with all the real action happening just hundreds of yards away ! Surreal!
Even more surreal, me, the littlest puniest fella ever, got singled out by some yobbo as one to goad! Aye, by one of our (supposed) own. A Neanderthal from the bad old days.
Still, we won! And my mates shepherded me to safety, true pals. Unfortunately, Mick has since joined Ossie, but Neil and myself are still flying the blue flag together.
Respect.
For the record, Kevin and I met once at the Bridge, true Blues penning from the heart!
And with Crispin too, must be something magic in those boots at the Bridge!
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6th March 2021 at 12:33 am
Blimey Dave,
you don’t want much do you!!! 😉
Fred Astaire / Alan Shearer……
We can all dream on!
Gr8 poem.
clik
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6th March 2021 at 12:30 am
Kev,
thanks for sharing!
“Tug the sub”
wish I’d thought of that, kushti!
I’m old skool, so I thought TT was bang out of order with his post match comments re CHO.
But have to admit, Callum and the rest of the boys have stepped up to the Mark…. (deutschemark – geddit?!?)
Clik.
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6th March 2021 at 12:23 am
Thanks for sharing Denys,
I always look forward to your poems.
“Blue is the colour” as my tribe would say!
And happily, we followed your suit!
One nil win at Anfield for us last night.
Though granted, you’ll revel much more in the bragging rights!!!
Clik
(Carlo Thatsyerlotti …… our loss is your gain!!)
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6th March 2021 at 12:17 am
Thanks for sharing Gacina… a great insight….
I reckon there’s the mother of all earthquakes in the offing….
😉
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6th March 2021 at 12:14 am
Thanks for sharing Patrick….
Methinks there’s proper respect….. on both sides of the story.
😉
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6th March 2021 at 12:10 am
Thanks for sharing Greg!
All of us Dads have been there!
My proudest moment in life (towering over any game I ever won) was when my lad (“Patrick the Hat-trick”, as in 3rd born) powered in a penalty shootout into the top corner – the littlest fella on the pitch and yet the coolest customer! And yes they won their final! (I couldn’t believe it – he was the little Billy Bremner / Chopper Harris throwback, and yet Le Tiss like when it mattered!!!!)
BTW…. as to the poem…
it wasn’t me!
Yes, I played against Addlestone!
I was a skinny little wretch that turned up every week on the sideline, until eventually at about age 15 I sprouted and developed… I reckon I was Dennis Irwin before Dennis Irwin!
Only… I was playing in the black and green stripes of Hampton Hill Celtic…. (yes we started out as green and white hoops). Happy days!
But as a Dad, my watching brief has been here in Ireland.
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5th March 2021 at 11:56 pm
Amen to that.
A player of grace….
#9
& the poet
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