Sharon Jones
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Sharon Jones‘s profile was updated 4 years ago
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years ago
From the city of sailors and dreamers of dreams
We have marvellous stories rolling in off the sea
I thought I’d seen everything Anfield to Rome
Welcomed the world to our Liverpool home
Saw Sir Bob Paisley b […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Football is flesh and blood
love and lies and truth
betrayal sadness joy and faith
wit wisdom and idiocy of
the indelible comradeship
the principles and disciplines
the traps tropes and temptations
of a […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
When I am an old woman, I am going to wear purple
In the name of rock and roll God bless my rebel soul
I will learn to play guitar, and who cares if I’m out of tuneBecause I’m in step not out of time, and […]
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
In goal there’s Nicko as steady as stone
Swapped blue for white and found a new home
Right back is Yatesy a machine scoring goals
In the Cup he was magic St Yates Day now known!From the youth ranks M […]
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Football poems in muddy boots
Those heroic couplets with chalk down the verbs
Them epics that flew off the wings of metaphors
Roared on by the mythic terrace
In boss ghazals
Syllables for goalposts
iambs to […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
As soon as you’re born you’ve chosen your club
And you go with your Dad meet your mates at the pub
And you give it your heart and your soul and your love
Working class football is something to be
Agents l […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Ali Turganbekov, from Kazakhstan
This young boy
With his beautiful shining glorious smile
Won the Super Cup last night
And proves that however we walk
Wherever the path leads
Whatever the obstacles
No […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
The poetry in motion
Upon a football pitch
Whence a Dalglish angles punctuates
The essential wisdom
And simplicity of a game
Thus spake Shankly, Busby, Stein
Scottish Steel hewn from the
Collective nouns […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
In vast shipwrecks of seasons dreams
Amidst the clack of fans who scorn
The overpriced and misplaced signs
When boots of better days were born
Our sense of joy with fleeting runs
Those hazy mazy wingers […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Football loves its trinities
And like the Holy Ghost
Always feels more at home
When the other two are closeHansen, Souness and Dalglish
Or the 3 Jocks as they’re known
Leaped right over Hadrian’s Wal […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 10 months ago
Football teaches us boss lessons about love
especially the heartbreak
how emotions rule over flags raised
and inside the head is screaming “You must’ve seen that!”
and of course the offside rules never […]
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Sharon Jones‘s profile was updated 4 years, 10 months ago
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Sharon Jones‘s profile was updated 4 years, 11 months ago
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Sharon Jones‘s profile was updated 4 years, 11 months ago
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Sharon Jones‘s profile was updated 4 years, 11 months ago
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 4 years, 12 months ago
All around the country
There is a gathering pulse-beat, a small yet vital sign of life
The first heads of the green shoots beginning to push up and out into the light
New kits on the block
Relegation battles […] -
Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years ago
When I was in high school all those years ago
In English I was taught Keats’ “Ode To A Grecian Urn”
And whilst I loved this bright star’s resilient rebellion
Not one single word other than those in the title d […] -
Sharon Jones‘s profile was updated 5 years ago
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Sharon Jones published a poem on the site Football Poets 5 years ago
Oh how well orchestrated the redemption
Playing cards with God
No sleight of hand needed
When the boots were blessed
With such divine miracles
6 lions not 3 left stranded bewildered
Some say bewitched 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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26th May 2024 at 2:30 pm
Hi Denys…
Re Man City:
OK it was 20 years ago but Criag Wilson did write this and a few others on them back in 04/05.
BTW I’m more Forest Green Rover since 2014 (and Chelsea) these days . I drum and am a standing season ticket holder .
Best
Crispin
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29th April 2024 at 2:47 pm
Hi Denys,
Yes Richard Williams you’re a brilliant wordsmith, my friend. When I first saw your football poetry I thought it was the superb Guardian sports and music writer. I once had the honour of sitting next to Richard Williams while at the Independent on the sports desk. He writes about music and sport with immense knowledge and authority. I’ve read a couple of Richard’s books recently. Great writer rather like you Richard Williams the Pompey fan. Congratulations on promotion.
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28th April 2024 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Denys. Yes your replay poem was superb.
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26th April 2024 at 4:46 pm
Nice work, Joe. You were quick off the mark with that! Good one from Richard Williams too I see.
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25th April 2024 at 7:33 pm
Hi Denys,
Thanks mate. I’ll do it now.
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25th April 2024 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Joe,
you might like to write a poem yourself on the same subject…
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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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