Sharon Jones
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
“Johnny Rhythm” his fans would roar him on
Any stadium he would fill
Those cathedrals rocked to the rooftops
Sublime moments of genius
That hung long in the air
Like chords of chiselled notes
“We love you […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
I was born in Nineteen Sixty -Three
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
and the Beatles first LP
Sir Roger Hunt scored 31 goals
In that Liverpool championship team
Shankly’s reds my auld man said
The best […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
Walk on Walk on with
Hope in our hearts for you will
Never walk alone. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
We love you Arthur
We do, we love you Arthur
Arthur we love you. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
These days I am of the age
Where my football heroes
And my music heroes
Are dropping like leaves from a tree
The clock is ticking, the bell tolls for us all
The not so slow return of Christmas
When I have […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 4 months ago
We all tried to copy your passes
When we were kids
After watching you split open
The best defences
But we couldn’t match you
No one could, tho they tried
There was only ever one “Razor”
Shanks knew, and s […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 7 months ago
Now a nation Greaves
Nicotine stained terraces
Miraculous goals. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
All of life
Coursing through
Each thirsty vein
Binding dreams
And racing off down a road
That opened its journey
Upon the shoulders
Of the broad elephantine figure
Bayern’s ‘The little cannon’
Carrying a […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
We’ve got a new striker
He’s fast and he’s fleet
He’s got thunder for boots
And lightning for feet!
We paid out in millions
For his first touch is sweet
He’s quicker than sugar
Dissolving in tea!
His […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
What poetry would pour
From gilded boots
Flashing like blades
Vibrant the pulse thudding
With a slow moving seduction of senses
Betwixt steaming pies and mushy peas
Whilst the doppelgangers of […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
in the hidden secrets of a small cafe
on a bookshop narrowboat jostling
against the canal sides
an empty terrace filled with the sounds
of lost dreams and old songs
beyond the rubble of lies and the […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
You can feel the excitement, taste the energy
This is a proper football crowd come back home, European night game
And walking up Lambeth Road past Sandhills never felt so good
Them there Beatles adorn The […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 8 months ago
Monday Night Football
Home again…After sojourns
Through wins and losses
loves and heartbreaks
non-league and grassrootsin the fullness of time
all things must pass
and move
this too. -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
Give me an England of Rashford and Saka
Of Sancho and Sterling and Co
Give me an England of Southgate
Not the racists and bullies on show
I don’t want an England of ticketless louts
Who think that it’s all […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
when we sleep as mute as dust
returned to earth and dead as rust
then ask of each and every one of us
how well did you play the game, cuz? -
Sharon Jones commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
Brilliant piece Carol.
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Sharon Jones commented on a poem on Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
nice one kev 🙂
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
We’re not looking for those miracles
We’re not looking for the boots of gold
We just want some football fireworks
That lift our weary souls
We’re not searching for El Dorado
Or the myths of bold Gawain […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
everything is political
economics rules
like your accent which school you went to
or didn’t
we carry these burdens unto the grave
classified & categorised
don’t need a virus or jab to track & trace […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 2 years, 9 months ago
sets our broken hearts on fire
raises long-lost hopes
like pilgrims gripped by holy grails
we spring back off the ropeswe never learn we long to dream
like children scanning skies
for reindeer and […] - Load More
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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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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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29th January 2024 at 10:03 pm
Hi Crispin,
How are you doing mate? Yes, you’re probably right but hey football is all about emotion and passion and I just love writing about the game. I try to keep my poetry to a reasonable length but there’s so much to write about the game and its literature just lends itself naturally to poetry. Sometimes I just get completely carried and I do apologise for the length of my poetry but it’s a great thrill to be associated with Football Poets.
Cheers mate
Joe
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10th January 2024 at 7:52 pm
You’re right of course Joe but…..it’s actually more of a big welcome break for everyone who is not into Premier League ..I’m talking fans of EFL National League and below…..
Btw …is this actually your longest poem ever !?
Best
Crispin
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8th January 2024 at 4:45 pm
Thanks!
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8th January 2024 at 10:42 am
There’s something so evocative and nostalgic for football fans the world over, in ‘revisiting’ old lost grounds.
Occasionally some remnants remain, with perhaps part of a wall or part or a stand or thre shape of a terrace, but often they are only still there in faded images and in our heads..
Great stuff Graham
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4th January 2024 at 10:13 am
A great idea and well executed. Thanks Graham.
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