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Archive for October, 2001

what kind of game is this…in difficult times & places

(in defence of Desailly,Le Saux and Petit etc; staying home ) what kind of game – is this we play when players have to stand and say – this world and life mean so much more than football in an air of war or in a time – where hope and fear run parallel – […]

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Toys for the Boys

Well I don’t know what to say – it seems a bit shallow to talk football when all this is going on, but operating on the assumption that “What do they know about international politics who only international politics know”, we’ll talk some football. My latest view from the bench comes on the back of […]

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Do We Need A National Stadium/ Another Wembley & Where?

Hi -re the poem that follows this…………. i’m sitting here on a deserted and beautiful beach here in Pefkos on Rhodes,Greece having- alone – just watched the sun spectacularly and majestically set as it will have done every ‘night’ for millions and millions of years….here it performs this nightly miracle to empty houses.. regularly..(.in spite […]

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where now..the Wembley dream is over

where now the dream is long over and gone and your tunnel stands empty while echoes ring on? when you ask me a place where-in legends were made i willl show you where none but the greatest have played from the back streets of Bolton to old London town the joys and the sorrows the […]

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/news/2001/10/